Carson is very much one of those, "Black people create their own problems," type of guys. I think he's faulting BLM for being too radical, not blaming themselves as much as they should, not buying into Carson's solutions. I doubt if he cares that they disrupted a Bernie Sanders event. Note his dismissive language about the socialist senator from a tiny rural state.

are paying close attention. Hearing this from Carson at the same time Cornel West endorsed him from the Left is bound to have an effect. I'm looking at at this strategically.

Which are hardly solutions.

I don't think anyone thinks he's at all in touch with the reality of cause. But his comments about the protests against Sanders are right. Skewed, condescending to just about everyone, but still, right. The point being, I believe, they're concentrating on someone that is doing the right thing and not on those that are fighting to keep people down.

His points:
1) Fire all the teachers and their evil union. More charter schools. Because you get the best education from the least-paid teachers.

2) Rap music is evil. Eeeeeevilllllllllll.

3) Thugs are trying to kill us all in our sleep.

4) Make the drug war even worse.

5) Cut what remains of the safety net.

6) Democrats suck

7) Republicans are just misunderstood.

You are giving him props for that pile of shit?

I'm not endorsing his conservative talking points at all and I'm a strong union supporter but not in love with many union leaders who sell out their workers. There are several things in his article that I totally agree with after living in Baltimore and seeing the institutional racism first hand

Uh-huh.

Thank you for this.

This guy is just all over the map. I was familiar with him for almost as long as I can remember. His work is nothing less than pure genius.

Yet, we take his words on the LGBT community and wonder he can possibly be the same person that successfully removed half a brain from a child. A child who lived in much better health than before the surgery.

This is more like what I would have expected from him.

Thanks again for posting this


On edit. I just read the other replies. I agree with everything they're saying. However, I will give credit where it's due. Coming from him, it's something big. They're right about nowCarson's thinking about minorities causing "their own problems" but only to an extent. I remember reading about that in an interview with him in Parade Magazine a million years ago. He believes it was his mother that shielded him from pitfalls and admits that the issues, caused by government and racists, exist and are not easily escaped.

Regardless, I'm glad he said it no matter what he thinks about the small town senator or BLM, who I staunchly support

It's certainly not a ringing endorsement but we'll never get that from any of them. I appreciate what he said about Bernie and Bernie not being the enemy.

No doubt the guy is nuts and sometimes downright evil. But this is worth a prop.

So -- he is a wacko.

Having said that, he stumbled into saying something right about Bernie. It can happen.

--imm

Funny thing. This just came across my twitter written by a conservative millennial. To be clear, I'm not endorsing this person's political beliefs but this is the first time I've run across a conservative millennial explaining himself and I thought it was interesting. I'm still mulling it over.

I can totally dig that. Whatever they need to say to come to the conclusion that Bernie is who we need, it's all good!

Just wish he would stay with doctoring

MediaMakers4Bernie just tweeted this so I watched it and enjoyed it.

I understand why you posted it, but...

But I am sure we agree on almost everything else Comrade.

but there's a real problem in Baltimore, where Carson lived most of his professional life. With a few exceptions, its Public Schools are bad, unsafe and they keep cutting staff. The school system got a D+ in a citizen survey recently. I don't see how you can blame the teachers union for that though unless he's possibly talking about bad or greedy leadership that's more focused on power than on providing the best education. I'm in no position to know anything about their union or its leaders so, barring any bad surprises there, I agree with you. Comrade

I am in a minority among Sanders' supporters in that I totally understand why BLM would "Act Up" in the way they did.

What I don't understand is why, among all the candidates for President, Bernie seems to be their #1 target. Also, why they continued to say he didn't say anything about race well after he was talking about race. And claiming he did certain things only because of BLM when that is not true, either.