Presidential candidate Ben Carson is becoming quickly known for his take-no-bull attitude — especially when it comes to racial and religious relations.
At a recent speech, Carson said it was time for African American voters to abandon the Democratic Party and to remember Democrats’ checkered racial history.
Speaking before a group of African American activists and leaders, Carson said that the Democratic Party, “…is the party of the KKK. Of Jim Crow laws. And perhaps just as bad right now, of servitude. ‘Now you do this, and we’ll take care of you, pat you on the head, take care of all your needs.’ Which keeps people believing that’s what they actually need.”
While wading into racial and religious issues is considered a minefield for many politicians, it’s been a boon for the Carson campaign.
Carson’s fortunes surged a few week ago after he said he would not support a Muslim president. His campaign raised roughly $700,000 in the 36 hours after he made the comment, Bennett said.
According to the Associated Press, on Thursday Carson will call for the revocation of the non-profit tax status of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group, whose leader called on Carson to leave the race last month.
“The Judeo-Christian values upon which America was built allowed us to become the greatest force for good on the planet,” Carson says in a fundraising appeal distributed this week that repeats his criticism of a prospective Muslim president who supports Sharia law.
“He sounds like a man who believes we need to get back to our Christian heritage,” said Dean Barney, a 63-year-old truck driver who lives in Asheboro, North Carolina, when asked what inspired him to donate. “I like his humility. And he’s no politician.”
Carson’s campaign has seen a huge boost recently in both the polls… and in fundraising dollars.
While the GOP establishment remains deeply skeptical of the retired neurosurgeon’s chances in 2016, even the most seasoned political operatives concede that Carson’s ability to raise money, if not his rising poll numbers, exceeds their expectations and ensures him a prominent place in the packed Republican contest four months before voting begins.
Carson’s team confirmed Wednesday he has raised more than $20 million in the three-month period that ended Wednesday and $31 million overall since he entered the race in May — much of it from small-dollar donors or newcomers to presidential politics.
Flush with cash, Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett said he has initiated plans to begin reserving television ad space across the South for primary contests scheduled for early March.
Carson isn’t saying anything NEW! hell, this is public knowledge and it’s been off and on FB for MONTHS! The democrats are NOT for blacks. You speak of a racist party! What did LBJ say when he created the Great Society? Yeah, well, look what that society created. Slums, crime, corruption, fiscal failure in NYC, Newark, Baltimore, NO, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit and LA. Welfare rampant, drugs, gangs, murder by the dozens every day riots. And who is to blame? Guess! It is time to B AN, yes I said BAN the communist party of America. they appear to be nothing more than a band of thugs. Unions acting like THUGS, Ovomit, Hilary, Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch. janet napolitano, The IRS, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the list goes on not to mention the RINOs in the republican party!
I agree, the majority of voting blacks have got to wake the hell up. the dems/communists have been SCREWI(NG them since 1964. 51 YEARS people! Nixon, Reagan, Carter, Two Bushes and Slick Willy did Anything. They are in Chicago, I mean what will it take for the REST of the democratic controlled cities in America to WAKE UP! It would appear, a revolution is what is needed and that is what they’re preparing for.
Do not think it is the communists. I think it is muslims that have been working the black communities for decades. Muslims seem to all be trained to have no sense of nationality and are just religious zombies. And they have been using the same technique here but training blacks to be race zombies. Remember black power and other sense of race that has been around for quite awhile of being American who happen to be black. And the muslims had a ready made story to train them. Slavery and Jim Crow.
Slavery ended here over a century ago, but has not ended in islam. ISIS has sex slaves and even ownership papers.
334,’the communist have been in control here in the states since they formed in 1908. They are called the counsel of foreign relations, tri lateral commission, and they world as a governing body thru the united nation. What you think doesn’t,t matter 334. It,s what you know that does. Educate yourself
Abraham Lincoln was a Republican!
God Bless Ben Carson!
What do starving, thirsty voters do? For the truth, not warmed over platitudes and other BS.
They flock to Carson and to Trump. The rest need to bandon ship! The establishment is sinking. It has been scuttled by Obama, the muslim WH and the rest of the party of blame. They are finally reaping what they have sown.
My question is this. America will survive Obama, but can/will the democrat party survive? Or the GOP wing of the establishment govt in PC DC? Perhaps we will be left with only a version of the Tea Party? A bunch of these soon to be outcasts retire so they can get their retirement?
The Democrat party has won a majority of white votes only once since 1948. Their lock on the black vote, even with policies that are actually harmful to the black community, is their only path to power. But not to worry, they have another equally dishonest card to play. They are packing the electorate with a tsunami of legal (chain migration and anchor babies) and illegal immigration that are a dependent class and easily manipulated. The illegals will be slipped on the voter rolls sooner or later, after which no Republican will be elected to national office. One party rule will lead quickly to a dictatorship and tyranny..
Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Carly fiorina. Any 2 of these 3 as the presidential ticket is a win, win. America will still have a chance if this happens, and the progressives Marxist Don,t rig the elections like they did o assholes 2nd go round
Ten Cruz is a douchebag. The guy never answers a direct question when asked. It always turns into a politico speech filled with rhetoric and banter. Just answer the questions Ted!!!
the american people need to have a real house-cleaning this election.REMOVE ALL OF THE DEMOCRAPS,REPUBLICRATS AND COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST PIGS THAT INFECT THE DISTRICT OF CORRUPTION. THEY HAVE BEEN KILLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR WAY TO MANY YEARS..WORKING THE VOTERS TO DEATH SO THEY CAN FEED THEIR BANK ACCOUNTS AND SUPPORT THEIR FINE BROTHER BOTTOM FEEDERS IN PAKISTAN,AFGANISTAN,80%OF AFRICA, WITH FOREIGN AID,HALF OF WHAT THE SEND GOES TO THE SLUSH-FUND FOR RETIRED POLITICANS AND LOBBYISTS..
You’ve got it right, Robert. District of Corruption! We need to root out all the radical leftist professors in the colleges, too. That’s where all this is coming from. They are just spewing out brainwashed new liberals every year. You don’t learn progressivism in real life – you learn common sense. And while we’re at it, do away with any national education control. Give education standards back to the states and locals.
Gosh, I wish I could have heard Carson’s speech!
Our Holy FATHER, YOU are our LORD GOD and YOU reign forever! We lift up Ben Carson to YOU
asking for YOU to bless him to be a blessing to all us CHRISTians and to all Americans in JESUS’
NAME! MARANATHA! AMEN!
Subject: 545 People,
By Charlie Reese, a former 50 year columnist of the Sentinel Newspaper.
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does.
You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on
appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don’t control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices.
545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress.
In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason.
They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault.
They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall.
No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts — of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what THEY want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red.
If the Marines are in ,it’s because they want them in.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like “the economy,” “inflation,” or “politics” that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible. They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Changing the players wont work; they will quickly be corrupted also. We the citizens have the final say over the federal government, whose powers are essentially limited to defense, diplomacy. and regulation of taxes between states (original intent of the Commerce Clause). All other authority is specifically left to the states, and to the people. The intent of the Founding Fathers was to limit the power of factions (special interest corruption) to only these unavoidable areas which is only about 25% of today’s federal government. A connivance of elected representatives and judges have put the rest of this tyranny over on us. Only an irate citizenry will reform the mess, hopefully without too much bloodshed.
I’ve always been intrigued by black Americans’ loyalty to the Democrat party. The Democrats make a lot of promises to blacks but they seldom do anything to improve the lives of blacks. In fact, most of their policies have done more harm than good to black Americans.
I am thankful for Ben Carson’s stand on racism. I live 50 miles from Ferguson, MO and I am not for police brutality, but I taught my children to respect police also. The rioting that happened hurt a lot of good people and many of the people rioting were not from St Louis and were paid to demonstrate by a group called acorn. I know this because it was leaked in a news article that some of the protestors were upset because they did not receive their check for protesting. This is just wrong! Good business people many of them were black had businesses destroyed! Where was Rev. Sharpton, Jessie Jackson and Obama to encourage peaceful demonstration, like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr did?
The other thing that the news did not cover was that in a community just a few minutes from Ferguson every week there are killings of blacks by blacks. What are the police to do to protect this kind of violence from coming into their community? I do not want police to be unfair to the good black people they are there to serve, but they do need to be able keep order also.
I do continue to pray for all of the people in Ferguson regardless of race and for the police that are there to serve them. I pray that God will grant us a president to bring peace between our racial differences and that as a nation we serve God and our neighbor. I hope we will all confess our sinfulness and turn our hearts to God and be willing to tell others about God and what He did for all of humankind. I believe God can help us to forgive as He forgave us in His Son Jesus and heal our nation. We also need to speak with our Muslim neighbors in this country and let them know more about Jesus and take time to explain that He is that one God promised for their salvation and show them God’s love in action. But also be wise in dealing with those who choose aggressive actions.
Pray and keep on praying! God does hear and He gives everyone the choice to listen to Him.