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Source: NBC News
Ben Carson: Obama 'Raised White,' Doesn't Understand Black Americans
by JANE C. TIMM
Ben Carson said 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.
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BlueMTexpat
(15,372 posts)seem to understand Americans in general.
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)And we all know that no Black child raised by a white mother would ever experience racism. (sarcasm)
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)....when is he exiting the race, now? Oh, that's right...after tonight.
Good riddance!
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)I get angry sometimes like with Jenner and her being a righty, and with Clarence for being a destructive and horrid nightmare of a justice.
But I dont judge someone who has lived a life I cant even imagine.
I am glad you can and do judge him though, as he deserves it
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)He can't take his loss like a man so he bashes another black man. Sick!
It's also sad because he has accomplished so much; that legacy will always be there and yet he spoiled some of it running as a loony on the Right and disrespecting the black president.
He and Cornel West should just go somewhere and have party. They're both losers.
JustAnotherGen
(31,866 posts)Right?
Digital Puppy
(496 posts)underpants
(182,868 posts)There's a thread about it. I guessed the video of the 106 year old woman being happy has set them off.
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)no longer being president.
Wow, these black people sure do hate our president, don't they?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)funny how even Herman Cain when running for POTUS said the same thing....Herman Cain: Obama 'not a strong black man'
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/herman-cain-barack-obama-black-man-/1#.VsyRIJwrKHs
Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)NOLALady
(4,003 posts)Raised Black, doesn't understand Black Americans.
Raised Black, doesn't understand Americans.
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)kwassa
(23,340 posts)as opposed to, say, Ben.
FrenchieCat
(68,867 posts)to his own sorry self!
Tarheel_Dem
(31,237 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)It was a really good passage and obviously infinitely more thoughtful than Carson's nonsense, but FWIW Obama himself mentioned feeling isolated and cut off from "the African American experience" because of his childhood.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)He just doesn't understand them.