Ben Carson: Obama 'Raised White,' Doesn't Understand Black Americans

[ExodusNirvana]

Ben Carson said in an interview published Tuesday that President Obama was "raised white" and can't understand the African-American experience the way he can.

"He's an 'African' American. He was, you know, raised white," he told a Politico podcast. "I mean, like most Americans, I was proud that we broke the color barrier when he was elected, but … he didn't grow up like I grew up … Many of his formative years were spent in Indonesia. So, for him to, you know, claim that, you know, he identifies with the experience of black Americans, I think, is a bit of a stretch."

The Republican presidential candidate finished sixth out of six in South Carolina; after peaking in November, he's been polling at the bottom of the pack and struggling to turn supporters into voters. Carson's rags-to-riches journey from impoverished the inner city of Detroit to an internationally renowned career as a pediatric neurosurgeon first got him on the national stage, but it's this kind of inflammatory criticism of the president that got him on the radar of conservatives nationally and drafted him to run for president.

Carson long dismissed questions about race as divisive and downplayed his own race, but in these final days he's dug into race as a campaign issue, running ads against affirmative action in South Carolina and condemning black crime as "a crisis" that only he knows how to overcome.

These attacks are nothing new: critics have been arguing that the president is too black - or not black enough - since he appeared on the political stage. Rupert Murdoch came under fire earlier last year for suggesting that Carson could be the "real black President who can properly address the racial divide," while Rush Limbaugh has argued that Obama "disowned" his white side.

The president himself has addressed the issue at length.

"Sometimes African Americans, in communities where I've worked, there's been the notion of "acting white"—which sometimes is overstated, but there's an element of truth to it, where, okay, if boys are reading too much, then, well, why are you doing that? Or why are you speaking so properly?" he said in the summer of 2014. "And the notion that there's some authentic way of being black, that if you're going to be black you have to act a certain way and wear a certain kind of clothes, that has to go."

I have very little respect left for this dude...at some point something inside you has to tell you that money is not worth shucking and jiving

 

[hashmander]

who needs "real" black people being "raised" black if they're going to turn out socially like ben carson.

 

[Llcoolbay]

Carson could be right in that Obama didnt grow up in an environment similar to the one he did.

Too bad he went full c00n the moment he got out

 

[William F. Russell]

Not a Carson stan by any means. Not at all.

BUT dude has a very valid point that I agree with. President Obama's black when convenient. He had no relationship with his black Kenyan father and was raised by his white mother. Dude never had regular contact with black people growing up. Dude lived in Hawaii and Indonesia as a youngster. Had it not been for playing basketball and working as a community activitist, he'd have virtually no ties to the black community. And I'm pretty damn certain that a significant, motivating reason as to why he married Michelle Robinson was because he wanted to give off an image of his blackness for political aspirations. Somebody please find me ONE black girl that he dated before Michelle.

And don't get me started on his lack of action for the BLACK community.

Obama is NOT for black people. Carson is definitely NOT for black people. fukk them both as they represent 2 sides of the same rigged political system that's enveloped by white supremacy.

 

[tmonster]

wait...why we still interviewing Ben Carson?

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

He's dead to me.