HUD Secretary Ben Carson (Photo: Gage Skidmore)
HUD Secretary Ben Carson: "Stop trying to stir up controversy." (Photo bhy Gage Skidmore)
Michigan Chronicle Senior Editor Keith Owens doesn't mince words about Detroit native Ben Carson's remarks following the nightmare in Charlottesville, Va.:
Being appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and being a house Negro are two different things. It now appears HUD Secretary Ben Carson is eminently qualified to be a house Negro, but remains as unqualified as ever to lead HUD.
Yesterday, in the wake of Trump’s unhinged response to the Charlottesville travesty last weekend where large numbers of Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists violently flexed their muscles freely for all to see, Carson suggested that critics of Trump’s response were getting poor little 45 all wrong, that we were blowing it all out of proportion.
But let me not paraphrase; this is exactly what he said, courtesy of the Washington Post:
"When he talks about the fact that hatred and bigotry and these things are unacceptable," Carson said of Trump, "he’s talking about everybody. . . . You’d think he was saying that hatred and bigotry are unacceptable except by neo-Nazis. We really have got to begin to think more logically and stop trying to stir up controversy and start concentrating on the issues that threaten us and threaten our children."
Keith Owens: "A minor incident?" (Facebook photo)"We the people have got to be smarter than this. . . .We all have to recognize that there are other things that are important here and don’t get caught up in these little squabbles and blow them out of proportion," Carson said, "and spend all of our time talking about that."
So Carson, the only African American member of Trump’s Cabinet (Omarosa, the other resident House Negro, is a White House advisor), believes that having a president of the United States who can’t make up his mind whether or not to endorse or condemn Neo-Nazis and other white supremacists on the march in the streets of Charlottesville, is a minor incident. . . .
What? I dunno. Maybe he got his months mixed up and he thought they were out for trick or treat?
