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Ben Carson: Obama 'Raised White,' Doesn't Understand Black Americans [View all]
Source: NBC News
FEB 23 2016, 9:25 AM ET
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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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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Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/ben-carson-president-obama-raised-white-doesn-t-understand-black-n524176
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