Take Dr. Ben Carson as one example. Dr. Carson the renowned neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore Md. is enjoying a certain amount of celebrity unrelated to his profession for speaking his mind about how individuals and the nation might succeed if more Americans were less dependent on government.
Dr. Carson who is African American has been denounced as insufficiently black because he won't toe the liberal line when it comes to big government and the implication that those in the African American voting bloc huge supporters of the Democratic Party who fall below the poverty line cannot succeed without it. The fact that many have not succeeded with government has apparently escaped the notice of his critics.
Speaking with Megyn Kelly on Fox News' America Live last week Dr. Carson addressed some of the slurs tossed at him saying they are what you might expect to hear on a third grade playground. He appealed to his detractors to move beyond such rhetoric and let's have a real discussion about the real facts. If somebody disagrees let's talk about why they disagree let's talk about the pros and cons let's see if we can find some accommodation.
That is precisely what the left does not want to do because to have such a discussion would expose liberalism's failure to solve the problems of poverty and education to cite just two examples through government.
MSNBC's Toure Monday has called Dr. Carson a token black friend to the Republican Party. I don't recall Carson ever saying he belongs to the Republican Party do you Even so labels should not define the man. What Carson is saying and what he represents ought to be the beginning point for the discussion he is trying to initiate.
Dr. Carson dismissed one suggestion he might be an Uncle Tom this way Well obviously they don't know what an Uncle Tom is because they need to read Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin.' You'll see that he was very very subservient kind of go along to get along type of person. Obviously that's not what I'm doing.
Obviously.
In the Kelly interview Dr. Carson hit his main point about liberal reaction on subjects ranging from Obamacare to higher taxes They feel that if you look a certain way then you have to stay on the plantation.
Isn't such a personal attack also a form of racism All whites don't think alike why should all African Americans be expected to
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