Ben Carson, the black Republican and potential presidential candidate who once told Barack Obama his health-insurance plan was the worst U.S. policy since slavery, was an unlikely guest speaker Wednesday at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network.
Appearing in Manhattan at the annual meeting convened by Sharpton, the civil-rights leader and an Obama ally, the conservative Carson stood out in a crowd of progressive activists promoting housing subsidies, redistribution of wealth, gay rights and punishment for police brutality.
“We need to talk about stuff we don’t talk about, we need to talk about the fact that 73 percent of our babies are born out of wedlock,” Carson told the mostly black audience. “And that baby is four times as likely to grow up in poverty. Unless we talk about it, nobody else is going to talk about it.”
He keeps talking here...
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12 comments:
You go Ben Carson! Love this man's ideas and attitude. Unfortunately he has never held a high political office so he won't stand a chance of winning.
11:08 Agreed. I don't see him as President but as a much more important ambassador for his race and the REAL problems they need to deal with.
With him and other black conservatives speaking out constantly then HOPEFULLY change might come.
I'd like to see him as director of HHS - what an improvement over Sebelius. Or, perhaps the Surgeon General.
The problem is, the blacks who need to listen to him, won't. They've probably never even heard of him.
12:14 All the more reason he would be better as an ambassador for his race. Plus, there are other conservative blacks who are beginning to speak out.
To take a page out of the liberal playbook - if you shout at someone loud enough then pretty soon it sinks in.
Come on people he has a silver tongue just like the one we voted in twice. Fool me once but not twice.
1:28 Dr. Carson is no Barack Obama and to say so is an insult to Dr. Carson.
Suggestion. Pen and paper in hand and list the accomplishments and beliefs of each.
It's a no brainer.
1:28 It's evident you don't
know what you're talking about!
Yes the Surgeon General would be a great idea for him. I think that plenty of African Americans know who he is they made a movie about the man. He is from Detroit and worked at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I admire him because he doesn't have a cocky attitude like Obama and doesn't act as if he has that sense of entitlement. That is what we need more form Black leaders.
HHS .
As long as Ben Carson is speaking nationally, everyone's' lives will be improving!
Ha ha, the sudden "concern" you show for the "black community" is quite hilarious. Had you been engaged, you would know that this has been a long-running conversation with many fighting to address these issues at the local level daily. You guys don't even realized you have created your own little fantasy world based off false assumptions about who and what black people are. And BC is here to profit off your ignorance.
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