Dr. Ben Carson joined the “Blacks have too much privilege” MAGA brigade during a recent Trump campaign stump speech.
In this case, Carson went after Blacks and their allies who think slavery is still a relevant issue in the U.S. And never mind all those Confederate memorials still present in the country!
“A lot of people are trying to denigrate” our founders as “horrible people,” Carson said, “maybe because some of them had slaves and that America is a horrible place because we had slavery.”
For the record, the ones who really seem to hate America are “American carnage” Trump and his Putin-loving allies who are just itching to destroy our democracy, shred our Constitution and dismantle government.
Frankly, Carson is emblematic of that movement given that he accepted the Trump cabinet position of secretary of Housing and Urban Development despite being shockingly unqualified.
I’m not sure Carson is any more qualified to lecture about American history. “People who say stuff like that obviously don’t have a good grasp on the world history because every society has had to deal with slavery and there are more slaves in the world today than there have ever been at any point in time,” he said.
And in how many countries is slavery protected and institutionalized in the Constitution, as it was in the U.S.? At any rate, since when does this “American exceptionalism” crowd judge the U.S. by saying it’s not as bad as other countries?
When it’s expedient of course.
“You look at human trafficking and sexual slavery and we ought to be concerned about what's going on now, not what happened 200 years ago,” Carson continued. “If there's anything unique about the United States and slavery, it's that we had so many people who were vehemently opposed to it that we fought a bloody civil war to get rid of the evil institution. That’s what we should teach our children.”
So, let’s just censor and memory hole that so many people vehemently supported slavery that they fought the bloody civil war to save the evil institution, Carson was implying.
“Our history is nothing to be ashamed of,” Carson added. “There’s good, there's bad and there's ugly as there is in every society inhabited by human beings, which is why we need a savior.”
I’m not sure if Carson thinks Trump is the human embodiment of Christ 's divine will or just the guy who might get him another cushy gig where he can waste thousands more of taxpayer dollars.
