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TexasTowelie

(111,292 posts)
Sat May 2, 2015, 10:27 PM May 2015

As Ben Carson bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade

The black man courting crowds of white conservatives doesn’t seem like the same guy that H. Westley Phillips once idolized. Phillips still relishes the day he heard Ben Carson inspire minority students at Yale University with his story of persistence. He can still feel the nervous anticipation he had while waiting in line to shake Carson’s hand.

After the speech, Phillips followed Carson’s path and began to study neurosurgery.

“I had come from a public school in Tulsa and came from a single-parent household and thought I was the admissions mistake,” said Phillips, now 27. “But he gave me the comfort to know that if I did struggle — and I thought I would — that I wouldn’t have been the first, and there are ways to handle it. The message he gave was this backup artillery when times were hard.”

For many young African Americans who grew up seeing Carson as the embodiment of black achievement — a poor inner-city boy who became one of the world’s most accomplished neurosurgeons — his emergence as a conservative hero and unabashed critic of the United States’ first black president has been jarring.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-ben-carson-bashes-obama-many-blacks-see-a-heros-legacy-fade/2015/05/02/b9ce53c8-e850-11e4-9767-6276fc9b0ada_story.html

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As Ben Carson bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2015 OP
Hero worship is a tough pursuit. Jackpine Radical May 2015 #1
Ben Carson saved my ex girlfriends cousins life. Jesus Malverde May 2015 #2
He saved many lives. elleng May 2015 #3
I admire him. 840high May 2015 #4
Yeah, he's so "admirable".. calls Pres Obama a "psychopath" and "America is like nazi Germany".. and Cha May 2015 #5
Book smart, common sense stupid. KMOD May 2015 #6
or opportunisitic like jindal and wants to be loved by white racists JI7 May 2015 #9
Read his books closely. He hated being black, still hates it. Overcame many obstacles but one... kelliekat44 May 2015 #7
He's a moron giftedgirl77 May 2015 #8
I agree Skittles May 2015 #10
Is some sort of corrolary to the The Peter Principle at work? Tommy_Carcetti May 2015 #11

Jesus Malverde

(10,274 posts)
2. Ben Carson saved my ex girlfriends cousins life.
Sat May 2, 2015, 10:36 PM
May 2015

Removing a tumor wrapped around her spine. Brilliant surgeon, shitty politician.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
5. Yeah, he's so "admirable".. calls Pres Obama a "psychopath" and "America is like nazi Germany".. and
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:01 PM
May 2015

tea bagger refrain.. "marriage should be between a man and a woman"..

He may be a brilliant surgeon but he's also full of shit and projecting.

 

KMOD

(7,906 posts)
6. Book smart, common sense stupid.
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:04 PM
May 2015

I know many people like that.

A wonderful doctor, who has no business wading into politics.

JI7

(89,173 posts)
9. or opportunisitic like jindal and wants to be loved by white racists
Sun May 3, 2015, 12:27 AM
May 2015

in turn hating and denying their own background.

 

kelliekat44

(7,759 posts)
7. Read his books closely. He hated being black, still hates it. Overcame many obstacles but one...
Sat May 2, 2015, 11:52 PM
May 2015

his skin color. In between the lines of his writing lurks the self-hate and black-hate. He rarely associates with blacks other than those like him who still suffer their own brand of self-loathing...notice they mostly associate with upperclass whites. They rarely want to see other blacks get the same kind of help they received because they view them as unworthy. But everyone of them were helped by the very same kind of government programs that they now decry and want to eliminate. No peace in their souls, no love in their hearts.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
10. I agree
Sun May 3, 2015, 01:02 AM
May 2015

I think he is disgusting

he could have been a great leader but he has sunk slinging repuke insults

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,080 posts)
11. Is some sort of corrolary to the The Peter Principle at work?
Sun May 3, 2015, 09:23 AM
May 2015

Some people are basing his ability to run for president based on his current success and lauded abilities as a neurosurgeon.

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