WTF? Ben Carson: Slaves Were Immigrants Who Came Here And Worked Really Hard For Less

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

WASHINGTON ― Ben Carson made his debut as secretary of Housing and Urban Development Monday by telling agency employees about the virtues of the “can-do” American society. Carson said this value system was best exemplified by slaves, whom he characterized as immigrants who came to the United States with very little and worked very hard.

“That’s what America is about,” Carson said. “A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”

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The Senate approved Carson, a neurosurgeon with no experience in housing policy, to the job last week.
 
In 2013, Carson said Obamacare was “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery.” 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ben-carson-slaves-immigrants_us_58bdbf1fe4b033be1467634f

[Me.]

1. You JUst Can't Make This Stuff Up

[LongTomH]

8. Nooo Shit!!!!!

[Cha]

54. I like Sam Jackson's reaction..

Link to tweet

[mcar]

57. That says it all

Who even thinks like that?

[Cha]

63. Somebody trying to impress this Biggest Pusher of FAKE News in the Universe?

"MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!"

[Cha]

68. Their dream was to not be kidnapped, sold to total strangers, shipped to America and thrown into the

Link to tweet

[mcar]

71. How long will our AA brothers and sisters

have to deal with this crap, Cha? It's 20 freaking 17!

[Cha]

74. I know, mcar.. it's despicable. the depth of ben carson's purposeful

stupidity is mild-boggling. Wth is he trying to prove beyond his own idiocy?

[mcar]

75. It is nonsense

The hits just keep on coming.

[Cha]

77. How apprehensive do you think I

am with HUD assistance?

[mcar]

82. Oh goodness

So many things to worry about. I really hate them.

[Cha]

84. Yeah, there's a Black Man head of HUD who's denying Slavery..

How fucked do you have to be?

[nolabear]

58. Samuel L Jackson speaks for me.

[Cha]

64. "MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!"

Yep!

[pokerfan]

61. Free passage from Africa!

That's how accommodating we were.

[Cha]

65. Yeah, captured indentured SLAVES are now "immigrants" according to

that genius head of HUD.. of course appointed by the stupid MF blotus.

"MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!"

[Me.]

72. I Loved It

And thought SJ pretty much covered it

[Cha]

73. Really. And, Boney Hurdle's Tweet..

Link to tweet

[Me.]

85. I Recently Read About The Weeping Time

Truly Sorrowful. And here he is, a shameful man, who has been given much respect and adulation by proud and brave people, stepping all over their history. However, I ask you, did he become a brain surgeon, or is that a lie too?

[Cha]

86. So eloquently said, Me.

Mahalo

I just think people can be savant in some areas and dumber than a box of rocks in other areas.

And, some have absolutely nothing going for them.. like the blotus.

[Me.]

87. Mahalo To You Cha

[gordianot]

2. Gadzooks!!

[northoftheborder]

3. No words

[crazylikafox]

4. I seriously thought this was "The Onion"

[exboyfil]

11. If you did a parody of this on SNL

you would have been criticized as being unfair and possibly even racist.

[Girard442]

5. Yup. And prisons are basically just big dorms where everybody is happy to hang out together.

Apparently, being able to say outrageous bullshit with a straight face is a requirement for working in the Trump administration.

[Stallion]

6. If They Came with Such High "Hopes" and "Dreams" Why Were They Shackled?

nauseating statement

[exboyfil]

7. Actually I bet most slaves malingered as much as possible

I would too if I was forced to work without opportunity to leave and knew my wife (if I was even able to have one) could be used for the sexual pleasure of any of the family members that owned me.

Not to mention being sold and separated from my family.

[Alice11111]

37. having their babies in the fields, and right back picking

cotton, if they survived childbirth.

Oddly, I was just thinking that at least Dr Carson was less dangerous than some of DT's picks...what a standard!

Wrong. He is a true believer.
Yeah, lots of opportunity for those slaves, then, and fighting, once they were free, to even vote. BC is, as Falstaff said, a fragment.

[pkdu]

9. First Betsy DeVos , then Ben Carson..... I believe that makes it Rick Perry's turn

and is it just me that gets the "sexual predator vibe" every time I hear this guy speak.

[SoCalNative]

10. Apparently the brilliant brain surgeon

is in need of a lobotomy.

[Hekate]

13. On the evidence, I think he already had one

[Alice11111]

40. LOL

[nycbos]

12. He must be related to this guy

[spanone]

14. mr carson has no connection to / knowledge of his heritage....

he's really pathetic.

[heaven05]

15. what a total fucking idiot

an AA TRYING TO NORMALIZE SLAVERY NOW TO FOLLOW THE IMMIGRANT LINE OF HIS FUHRER. I cannot for the life of me understand this jerk.

[Alice11111]

41. Required: Missing pieces brain, lacks ability to empathize

To be in DTs admin, they must have brain defects and no empathy...Sessions. True for most in Congress too... Ryan, Turtleman It is like flawed DNA. We need to get rid of this disease and keep them from breeding. Sorry, it brings out the worst in me.

[erpowers]

16. Educated Fool

Ben Carson is the definition of an educated fool. He received a highly rated education, but he still says some of the stupidest things that can be said.

[ananda]

22. Stupid in the ways that matter to millions.

So stupid.

[MineralMan]

17. Where did that guy come from, anyhow?

Has he never read about those times? OMG!

[sheshe2]

18. Anyone?

Anyone have a clue what the collective IQ of all of trumps cabinet picks is?

[Alice11111]

43. Well, the highest IQ of any individual is less than 100

[ismnotwasm]

19. Dear God.

[MrScorpio]

20. The worst part is that there are motherfuckers who'll believe him.

[Alice11111]

44. !!! They already believed it. He just made it OK to say.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. That is some depraved shit.

[randome]

23. They dreamed about their possible descendants? While being worked to death and tortured???

[hr][font color="blue"][center]All things in moderation, including moderation.[/center][/font][hr]

[TexasBushwhacker]

24. Yeah, they dreamed their descendants would be the product

of white massas raping their wives and daughters.

[smirkymonkey]

25. WTF?

There are no words for how insulting and bat-shit crazy that statement was. I might expect it from someone like Sessions or Trump, but not from an educated black man.

[benld74]

26. NOT good enough for POTUS, but good enough for HUD Cabinet Post

That sound in the background

are the face palms
Rolling of eyes
of the HUD employees in the audience

[muntrv]

27. This brain surgeon has no working brain cells.

[muntrv]

28. Oh Bennie!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=slave+ships&FORM=HDRSC2

[keithbvadu2]

53. 99th class staterooms

Less than deluxe accomodations

[shenmue]

29. Mo-ron

[Lotusflower70]

30. Unbelievable

That is so messed up.

Samuel L. Jackson's response was to the point.

OK!! Ben Carson.....I can't! IMMIGRANTS? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!! #dickheadedtom

[TygrBright]

31. The most deranged imagination I could ever conceptualize can't keep up... n/t

[Iggo]

32. Did it make you forget that the President of the United States is a Russian agent?

If it did, then mission accomplished!

[thesquanderer]

33. Yup, we never had slaves. Just involuntary immigrants.

Frank Luntz would be proud.

[BeckyDem]

34. For the love of God man, just go away if you can't help. DO NOT DO THIS!

[Freethinker65]

35. Deconstruction of the administrative state

[BumRushDaShow]

36. Fixed

"immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less" NOTHING.

[Laffy Kat]

38. He's not well.

Clearly.

[The Wizard]

39. Wondering if he's allowed to

run anything besides water.

[SummerSnow]

42. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I really don't like this fool

[EarthFirst]

45. So much for 'educated'

How does a man of such intense education have such little regard for history and cultural awareness?

[Mickju]

46. What a disgrace!

Yet another totally unqualified cabinet member

[rogue emissary]

47. If I didn't see the video clip I wouldn't have believed it.

Samuel said it best.

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Samuel L. Jackson ✔
@SamuelLJackson

OK!! Ben Carson....I can't! Immigrants ? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!!#dickheadedtom

[mountain grammy]

48. delusional.

[emmadoggy]

49. No words.

[world wide wally]

50. Stick to brain surgery, numbnuts

[sarge43]

51. Well, he did say the pyramids were built for grain storage.

[liberal N proud]

52. He was a fucking brain surgeon?

Did he give himself a lobotomy?

[gademocrat7]

55. Bat shit crazy

Carson is another unqualified member of the cabal.

[mcar]

56. I was going to say "is he high"

but that's obvious. I don't even know what to call this.

[yowzayowzayowza]

59. FFS! That is some repugnant moral relativism rite there. n/t

[JHan]

60. Is there no serious Auntie in Uncle Ben's family to tell him he's playing the damn fool?

oh to be black and republican.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

62. I doubt that Archie Bunker would've said such nonsense!

Norman Lear would've stopped All In The Family writers from including anything that nuts!

[spanone]

66. well, the dumb motherfucker is right, they DID work for less.

this is the equivalent of trump giving everyone, including his clan, the finger.

[Botany]

67. R you kidding me?

[struggle4progress]

69. Textbook Company to Update Description

Tanya Basu
Oct 04, 2015

Textbook publishing giant McGraw-Hill will rewrite a section of a book after a Houston mother complained that the text made light of the treatment of the slaves that were forcibly brought to the Americas from Africa.

Outrage over the textbook language spread after Roni Dean-Burren posted an Instagram of a text message from her son, Coby. The freshman had sent along a photo from his World Geography textbook that described African slaves as "workers" and "immigrants" ...

http://time.com/4060687/mcgraw-hill-slavery-trade-textbook/

[Nwgirl503]

70. When he started with the "they too had a dream that one day..."

I was like - oooooohhhhh....he's gonna get it! Not the "I have a dream" speech TOO!!! Luckily for him he didn't go full-idiot there. Cause I would have bought tickets to watch him get figuratively eviscerated, which he would have. This is bad enough.

[AllaN01Bear]

76. what planet are they on . giimmi a break please

! : these people were kidnapped against their will.
2: put into forced labor against their will
3: treated like property and cattle .
These people got no monies . no compensations. not even an apology and they got fucking grief for since they were set free. send the rs to school , give them books and ,,,,,,,.

[jeanmarc]

78. American Nightmare, Ben, not a dream

Stolen, shackled, put on the worst part of the ship where eventual disease would spread, and just considered property and abused and punished and worked to death.

Not immigrants, you fucking idiot. Ben should not be allowed to speak without some sort of proofing. Pyramids are grain elevators raised by Joseph?

What is this guy smoking? Why does he need HIS gov't job? HUD? He made dough as a brain surgeon. These people are certifiable. I'm glad Samuel L. Jackson went 'tom' on him. That's some racist shit. If Sessions said it, he might have had to resign.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

80. I'm thinking Ben must have watched a bunch of really old movies as a kid

You know the ones where slaves on the plantation were portrayed as happy go lucky types who spent the day singing and dancing.

[ecstatic]

79. Has anyone seen the movie "Get Out?"

[NastyRiffraff]

81. And we used to think neurosurgeons had to be smart.

Immigrants! UFB.

[Blue Owl]

83. Ben? Are you there Ben?

n/t