CARSON: Gray Matter, The Stuff That Really Matters

It’s time to ignore the inflammatory rhetoric of the haters and dividers

A few years ago, I was participating in a national radio interview when the questioner asked me, “Dr. Carson, I notice that you don’t speak very often about race. Why is that?”

I replied, “It’s because I’m a neurosurgeon.”

The puzzled look on her face demanded further clarification.

I proceeded to explain that when I take a patient to the operating room and open the cranium, exposing the brain, I am operating on the actual thing that makes that person who they are.

The hair, scalp and skull bones are merely external coverings of the critical entity — namely, the brain — which determines all the most important things about us as human beings.

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