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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs Ben Carson bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade
The black man courting crowds of white conservatives doesnt 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 Carsons hand.
After the speech, Phillips followed Carsons 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 wouldnt 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 worlds 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
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Feet of clay and all that.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)Removing a tumor wrapped around her spine. Brilliant surgeon, shitty politician.
elleng
(130,126 posts)Awful what's happened.
840high
(17,196 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)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)I know many people like that.
A wonderful doctor, who has no business wading into politics.
JI7
(89,173 posts)in turn hating and denying their own background.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)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.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)I think he is disgusting
he could have been a great leader but he has sunk slinging repuke insults
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,080 posts)Some people are basing his ability to run for president based on his current success and lauded abilities as a neurosurgeon.