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Ben Carson: Women's Lib Movement Created 'Me Generation' That Helped Lead To Ferguson
Submitted by Miranda Blue on Monday, 12/1/2014 11:38 am
Conservative activist Ben Carson was a guest on America Family Radios Todays Issues last week, where he expounded on his previous comments that young African American men like Michael Brown are getting killed by the police because they never really learn how to relate to authority in the proper way. Certainly in a lot of our inner cities, in particular the black inner cities, where 73 percent of the young people are born out of wedlock, the majority of them have no father figure in their life. Usually the father figure is where you learn how to respond to authority. So now you become a teenager, youre out there, you really have no idea how to respond to authority, you eventually run into the police or you run into somebody else in the neighborhood who also doesnt know how to respond but is badder than you are, and you get killed or you end up in the penal system, Carson said. If the so-called leaders were really interested in the community, they would be trying to deal with that problem, because thats happening every single day, he added. When host Lauren Kitchen Stewards broke in to tie his remarks to young peoples sense of entitlement, Carson traced it all back to the womens liberation movement. I think a lot of it really got started in the '60s with the me generation. Whats in it for me? I hate to say it, but a lot of it had to do with the womens lib movement. You know, Ive been taking care of my family, Ive been doing that, what about me? You know, it really should be about us, he said.
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nichomachus
(12,754 posts)We could end our reliance on fossil fuels within a week.
3catwoman3
(23,947 posts)...sure.
I was going to say, "No Shit!", but it was a little too obvious.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)before next christmas.
CanonRay
(14,084 posts)Save a place in the clown car. My cousin thinks he should be the next President.
Warpy
(111,141 posts)so the guys with the cameras and microphones will keep showing up.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)old elephant shit
napkinz
(17,199 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)is well beyond quantification by even the highest forms of mathematics.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)meow2u3
(24,759 posts)...after he benefits from affirmative action.
You disgust me, Carson!
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)up on the SCOTUS. I got mine, Jack, so fuck you.
avebury
(10,951 posts)actually graduated from medical school. His thought process is to dsyfunctional.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)got the whole thing started, then he bugged out when it came to taking responsibility for his kid.
Naw, it's easier to blame the single mother.
Tells you how mentally deficient Carson is when he has to go all the way back to the `60s to find something to blame and wouldn't you know it had to be women? The Republicans never could accept women's lib...still can't. That shows his lack of self-confidence and he's gonna need a ton of that if he wants to be POTUS.
Keep that in mind, Carson. You don't want to show us how weak you are if you want any "me generation" votes.
3catwoman3
(23,947 posts)...who don't step up to be fathers? These babies are not products of immaculate conception.
louis-t
(23,267 posts)Ben, put the Red Bull down and step away from the table.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Really?
Really?
Really?
Then
Who
Are
These
People?
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)I hate the damn mansplaining.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Yea, kids with single mothers will be gunned down in the street all because mama wants equal rights.
eridani
(51,907 posts)Sort of shrinks the supply of black marriage partners, no?
think
(11,641 posts)His political views like this one are pretty bizarre.....
LeftishBrit
(41,203 posts)lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Cannot be a Father from jail. Maybe if we put those non violent offenders in job training instead of spending 40 grand a year on prison, they could help support their children and send a bit of time with them. That is one thing I consider to be a war on Men. The prison industrial complex. Slavery.
lumberjack_jeff
(33,224 posts)JHB
(37,154 posts)LeftishBrit
(41,203 posts)I once read that in the early days of artificial intelligence research, someone created a computer model to simulate a right-wing American hawk of the Cold War era. The model grouped together all things and people that were Bad Things according to such a viewpoint, and treated them as all linked together. Thus, the model was prepared to accept as plausible such statements as that Fidel Castro had built the Berlin Wall.
People like Ben Carson resemble such a computer model, except that their Bad Things are more linked to social progressivism than to foreign 'enemies' (though there are certainly variants of the species who link everything to terrorism). Thus, feminism must have caused Ferguson, because both are Bad Things.
Of course a particularly ugly aspect of this statement is blaming the victim of the Ferguson shooting.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Is he auditioning to be the new Rush Limbaugh?
What sexist BS.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Carson's comment is so stupid on so many levels. First, even though many African American children are born out of wedlock many of them do have their fathers in their lives. A study showed that the majority of African American fathers see their on a daily, or weekly basis. Second, there are many man who were raised by single mothers and became great men. In addition, they will tell you there mother was no one to mess with. She was in fact an authority figure. Third, what about the black men who have been shot and killed by police even though they did not start, or get into a confrontation with the police.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)Obama for no apparent reason but would love to vote for Carson.
They make the Carson's of the world possible.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)Is Ben sill angry he is not getting laid.....blaming (and using that antiquated term for that matter) is generally a symptom somebody is not!
Enrique
(27,461 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)And uses words like "badder"? Must be his mother fault.
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hatrack
(59,574 posts)He's going to have the intelligence of a parsnip by the time primary season rolls around.
Fudking PATHETIC.
olddots
(10,237 posts)Horay !