Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson and his wife said Wednesday that the "racial and political strife" from Charlottesville should be opposed, "but let's use the right tools."
"Regarding all of the racial and political strife emanating from the events in Charlottesville last weekend, let me relate a story," Ben and Candy Carson began in a Facebook post.
"Several years ago we bought a farm in rural Maryland," they said. "One of the neighbors immediately put up a Confederate flag.
"A friend of ours, who is an African-American three-star general, was coming to visit and immediately turned around concluding that he was in the wrong place..
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"Several years ago we bought a farm in rural Maryland," they said. "One of the neighbors immediately put up a Confederate flag.
I love Ben and have so much respect for him, but if he just moved there then how does he know they "immediately put up a Confederate flag?" Maryland is basically a Southern state and we have had Confederate Battle flags for over 100 years.
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