It’s no secret that there are things about Ben Carson that disturb and bother me. See:
- Is Ben Carson insane? Compares ISIS to America’s founding fathers
- Ben Carson’s home is a museum to his ego and narcissism
- Ben Carson vs. Politico on West Point: You decide who’s the liar
- The truth about Ben Carson: West Point, vaccines, meaning of Easter and more
Taking the rebukes of some commenters to heart, I found this video of Carson’s best moments during one of the Republican presidential candidate debates. He makes a lot of sense, especially when asked what he would do to heal the racial divide in this country (beginning at the 2:52 mark):
“I think the bully pulpit is a wonderful place to start healing that [racial] divide. You know, we have the purveyors of hatred who will take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges between two people. And this does not need to be done. What we need to think about instead — you know I was asked by an NPR reporter once why don’t I talk about race that often. I said it’s because I’m a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. I said, ‘You see when I take someone to the operating room, I’m actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn’t make them who they are. The hair doesn’t make them who they are. And it’s time for us to move beyond that because our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America and not the divided states, and those who want to destroy us are trying to divide us and we shouldn’t let them.”
~Eowyn
