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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBen Carson blames Michael Brown for his own death
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ben-carson-battles-jesse-jackson-ferguson-has-nothing-to-do-with-race/by Evan McMurry | 10:30 am, August 24th, 2014
Jackson had called Browns death a state execution and linked it to a pattern of law enforcement violence against African Americans, violence that almost always goes unpunished. Carson responded that the incarceration and violence in black communities was largely a matter of personal responsibility, not racial disparities.
If you take race out of the issue altogether and you take a group of young men and you raise them with no respect for authority, not learning to take on personal responsibility, having easy access to drugs and alcohol, theyre very likely to end up as victims of violence and incarceration, Carson said. Has nothing to do with race.
It does have a race dimension, Jackson replied. It seems to me that when blacks kill whites, which is rare, its swift justice. When whites kill blacks, its rebellion. When its black on black its a struggle that shows a kind of permissiveness. Racial disparity and alienation and mistrust are very combustible factors.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)No respect for authority,
no personal responsibility, and
easy access to drugs and alcohol.
White kids in Marin are a bunch of thugs.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)LoisB
(7,206 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)He never calls out his fellow rethugs when they say racist things either. he feels the same way they do.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)cheapdate
(3,811 posts)He'll always be welcome anywhere there is a conservative with a microphone or a camera.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)into their homes or clubs.
chervilant
(8,267 posts)behind his back.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Having lived in that world, I have no doubt Carson has sat through his share of "Ni@@er/Sambo" jokes, told by his good "friends" (after a drink or two), where people just looked at him to see how he was going to react (I'm betting, a quiet chuckle or conveniently not hearing the punch-line), while others laughed riotiously, not because the "joke" was funny, but because he sat there and took it.
To be honest, it was recognizing that self-loathing feeling, afterwards; that set me straight.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)The man is an idiot and doctors make bad politicians. Carson would alienate a significant percentage of the GOP base in the south who are too racist to vote for any non-white