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Posted on 04/15/2013 5:38:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
Dr. Ben Carson stepped into the national spotlight recently when, as speaker at the National Prayer Breakfast, to an audience that included President Obama, he was openly critical of the President’s approach to health care and his overall management of the nation’s economy.
Carson, who is director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, is a hero to many. His life story, rising from a Detroit ghetto to a life of accomplishment and distinction, is a story of American ideals on steroids.
Those ideals say that America is about merit not circumstance. Your life, your achievements are the result of what you do and how you live, not where you came from.
The hard history of blacks in America has always made it a challenge for them to accept this credo. Many still carry a sense that those ideals may be true for whites, but they never were true, and still aren’t true, for blacks.
So in this context, Ben Carson’s story is particularly important. It’s making liberals nervous, and the attacks on him are starting.
He’s now pulled out, under pressure, from giving the commencement address at Johns Hopkins University because some are unhappy with how, in an interview on Fox, he expressed his views regarding the importance of maintaining the integrity of traditional marriage.
Blacks have known about Carson for years. I gave his book Gifted Hands to my daughters to read when they were little girls. A highly acclaimed made-for-TV movie about his life aired in 2009, with Dr. Carson played by Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding, Jr.
But this story of personal responsibility, hard work and traditional values is becoming a political story. It is becoming political because Ben Carson’s American dream story, according to the liberal script, is not supposed to work for blacks.
Ben Carson is the biggest threat to liberals since Bill Cosby got out of line at an NAACP banquet in Washington, DC in 2004.
Cosby had the temerity to deliver tough, critical talk about what too many blacks are doing with the freedom that civil rights activists of the 1960’s fought to achieve.
He contrasted the sixties generation with the new generation of black youth sitting in jail. “…..these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake.”
Cosby attributed the chaos to breakdown in values, family, and personal responsibility. It’s the last thing the NAACP crowd wanted to hear that night and he paid a price. He was vilified and marginalized until he backed off.
Liberals never take on what black conservatives actually say because they can’t. So the attacks become personal.
Trillions of taxpayers’ dollars have been poured into black communities over the last half-century producing virtually no change in the incidence of black poverty.
Yet, Ben Carson, through diligence and traditional values, achieved on his own what those trillions of dollars of government programs were supposed to deliver.
Liberal black writer Ta-Nehisi Coates put the cards on the table in an article about Cosby which appeared in 2008 in The Atlantic magazine. The typical black conservative votes for Democrats, he notes, “not out of love for abortion rights.... but because he feels…. that the modern day GOP draws on support of people who hate him.”
So stoking paranoia about racism has always been the strategy of liberals to fend off the political threat of conservative values that so many church-going blacks embrace.
Predictably, Coates has produced a New York Times column on Carson, reducing this great man to the usual caricature of a black empty suit manipulated by white conservatives.
Ben Carson is an accomplished and wealthy man. Americans, certainly black Americans, need him in public life more than he needs to be in public life. Let’s hope the left wing and the haters of traditional morality don’t succeed in making him conclude it’s not worth it.
doctor and lawyer wealth is not the same as factory owner wealth
How IRONIC, the Monday after the weekend that a MOVIE about baseball player, who also became a PIONEER, Jackie Robinson, “42”, came out. Good giref, will the LIBERALS learn anything and GET A LIFE!?
If conservatives attacked a white liberal for selling out to the black community, accused him of not being ‘sufficiently white”, and called him an “Uncle Abe”, the media and all those on the left would be outraged. But when it’s liberals attacking a black conservative for selling out to the white community, accusing him of not being sufficiently black, and call him an Uncle Tom, the media fan the flames of racial division. It must be extremely difficult for any black person in America to be unapologetically conservative as, in the words of Clarence Thomas, they are targeted by the left for a “high tech lynching”.
The left hates him because he doesn’t help their goal of creating a permanent, resentful black underclass that will always be there to give the democrats a false reason to moan about inequality and tax the hell out of productive people.
Clear enough?
Dr Carson has no doubt saved hundreds of children's lives, and in according with the division in our country today, theoretically half of which are libs children.
Libs would have to be way more heartless and vile people than we believe to be in favor of destroying the doctor who saved their own children's lives. I have heard not one accusation about Dr Carson asking the politics of the child's family before he operated.
All this demonizing of Dr Carson is not going to help libs.
There is a pretty good biographical movie starring Cuba Gooding Jr. about Dr. Carson’s life on Netflix streaming.
It’s exactly the same.
Dr. Carson is not thinking “happy thoughts” and must be “wished away”! The entire liberal mindset and strategy was perfectly summed up in a 50 year old episode of Twilight Zone… Rod Serling was a genius and a prophet!
http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/04/little_anthony_freemonts_twilight_zone_is_our_reality.html
This was posted on FR Friday, but is so right on… deserves a repeat! (IMHO)
no, it’s not. A doctor or lawyer is first a service, support to the main guy, a businessman. If they make 150K a year, they are lucky. A factory owner is making millions a year if he does it right. These corporate CEOs on the other hand are rip off artists
Dr. Carlson could cause the libs to go down in flames, they have no answer.
Suggesting that the libs would attack Dr. Carson is like predicting the sun coming up tomorrow, its a “given”.
A doctor or lawyer receives a Dollar for each Dollar of value provided to a customer, the same as a factory owner. Some Doctors and lawyers make lots of money; some make little, Some factory owners make lots of money; some little (some none).
How come they don’t rip into Obama? He is a very successful black man. How come blacks feel they can’t make it in the white mans world when one of their own, who they ALL voted for, is the most powerful man in the world, isn’t that inspiring to them?
Let me put it this way: Liberals are evil, and there is no denying it
I have the DVD and have watched it several times already
I used to believe that. Now I see those "conservative, church-going Blacks" defending Barack Obama's every act, including his attacks on religious liberty and even the move to brand as terrorists "people who interpret the Bible literally." Maybe Blacks don't interpret the Bible literally. Maybe they're effite left wing intellectuals who just happen to worship like West Virginia snake-handlers. So did the atheist "Rev." Jim Jones.
I actually had a dream about Ben Carson last night. We were chatting about how mean liberals are and I was telling him not to worry about it and thanks for speaking up. In the dream, he was surprised by all the irrational hate.
....I guess I am (gasp) "hoping" that some of them may have a little, well, errrrrr, sense?...
...but maybe not.
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