People in the Baltimore area are well aware of Ben Carson’s mental issues. Now the whole country knows…
Ben Carson’s infinite fall from grace
If we use Ben Carson’s logic on enslaved “immigrants,” Frederick Douglass made it big after a plantation internship
“There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less.”
Watching Ben Carson is becoming more and more painful. As black kid growing up in Baltimore, Dr. Carson, the world-famous pediatric neurosurgeon, was hand delivered to me and my peers as a hero. Not anymore. All his accomplishments in science are diminished now, overshadowed by his infinite fall from grace. Carson’s gone from top doc to Donald Trump’s boy.
I’m not sure where the Republican Party found Ben Carson, but I’ll be glad when they send him back, and I’m not alone. His comments on slavery and immigrants have sparked an explosion of social media backlash, from memes to rants. Pundits are also chiming in on how confused Dr. Carson is about the difference.
On “Anderson Cooper 360″ last night, CNN’s Angela Rye pushed back against Carson’s comments: “Ben Carson said black people worked for less. I have breaking news for Ben Carson today,” she said. “We built this joint for free. We didn’t build it for less.”
Rye said, “So many things about black history, including our last black president, have been trivialized. Maybe I would just throw this away as a mistake, and maybe he just had a gap in his judgment and a gap in his memory, but he also has compared Obamacare to slavery. This is an analogy that Ben Carson tosses around.” Rye added, “He may have some severe misunderstandings about what American slavery really was and how it impacted lives including those of us who sit here today.”
If we use Ben Carson’s logic, Frederick Douglass made it big after his plantation internship, Harriet Jacobs went into servitude for the sole purpose of memoir research and Harriet Tubman was the best tour guide of her time. Carson’s actions have prompted many, including myself, to label him as an Uncle Tom. But we might be wrong about that: “Uncle Tom” may be too good of a title for the HUD secretary.
The term Uncle Tom originates from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The title character is portrayed as a God-fearing martyr who is fully dedicated to protecting his fellow enslaved brothers and sisters — so much so that he continuously exploits himself, sacrificing his own freedom and ultimately his life, for their well-being. We clearly know that Carson is a martyr for nothing but his own dwindling reputation and he has yet to display any of these characteristics, so that’s out of the question.
CNu
March 8, 2017 at 11:26 AM
lol, from “community activist” to supah-DUPAH Tom.
Cooning may just be the universal kneegrow MO in DC.
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btx3
March 8, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Amusing bit of transference that. Your English skills are slipping.
“black Americans who became immigrants in their own way”, and “oyhrt immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships -they too had a dream”…
Yeah, the Dream of Nat Turner.
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lkeke35
March 8, 2017 at 11:54 AM
Yeah, he and Clarence Thomas may be vying for the same role. I’m not absolutely sure about Thomas but he certainly has all the symptoms of Uncle Tom-ness.
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