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| Dr. Ben Carson |
By
Todd Beamon, Apr. 4, 2014, Newsmax.com
Retired pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson
charged on Friday that mainstream African-American organizations are silent
when black Republicans or conservatives are criticized.
"Where are the black liberals when atrocities
occur?" Carson, who is weighing a GOP candidacy for the White House in
2016, asked talk-show host Roland Martin on "NewsOne Now" on the
black cable network channel TV One. "Organizations like the NAACP …, do
you ever see them coming out in support of a conservative black person?"
Carson noted that former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice has been the
subject of protests by student and faculty at Rutgers University
since she was selected as commencement speaker in February. They charge that
Rice supported torture and lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Carson, 62, who retired last summer as chief of
pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said that
the protests have occurred simply because Rice "was a conservative."
The university has affirmed its
decision on Rice speaking the May commencement.
Carson himself has come under fire for saying
Obamacare was "the worst thing that has happened in this nation since
slavery" and for likening
the United States to Nazi Germany.
With his slavery remark, Carson told Martin that he
was "not trying to make light of slavery. What I was trying to get people
to understand is what is happening with a government program that takes control
of the most important thing you have, which is your health."
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