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he only black member of President Donald Trump's cabinet

Waiting for 'Trump can't be a racist because Ben Carson's in his cabinet'. Out of the population of 35,000,000+ - 35 MILLION+ - Black Americans, I can't believe he's unable to find more to serve with him. Unless the best and the brightest in the Black community have zero desire to work with him. (Now why would that be?) Unless Trump's agenda keeps him from doing so. (Is Trump worried that if the faces in his cabinet don't look like those from his demographic he might lose support from those in his demographic, i.e. his largest support group?)

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You’ve got it wrong. Carson is obviously racist too. Then it all makes liberal sense.

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Carson asked Cummings to tour a HUD facility in Bmore and he declined. Probably cause we got video of Cummings saying this:

This morning, I left my community of Baltimore -- a drug-infested area where a lot of the drugs we are talking about today have already taken the lives of so many children," he said. "The same children that I watched 14 or 15 years ago as they grew up, now walking around like zombies."

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*Waiting for 'Trump can't be a racist because Ben Carson's in his cabinet'. Out of the population of 35,000,000+ - 35 MILLION+ - Black Americans, I can't believe he's unable to find more to serve with him. *

Maybe they’re not qualified or matched the criteria for various positions in the administration.

Unless the best and the brightest in the Black community have zero desire to work with him.

That could be, 87% of registered Blacks voted for Obama, so that could be.

(Now why would that be?) Unless Trump's agenda keeps him from doing so. (Is Trump worried that if the faces in his cabinet don't look like those from his demographic he might lose support from those in his demographic, i.e. his largest support group?)

Here we go again. Maybe there are a lot Blacks that are racist for stereotyping this President. Prejudice=to “prejudge.” We don’t know what the reason is, but you can make that same argument about every race or people with physical disabilities. Liberals really need to get off the race nonsense, it just completely undermines their argument.

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This is the part I love. Trump's only black cabinet member is trotted out to defend Trump's racist comments. The embracing of the humiliation. The kissing of the ring.

This one is up there with McConnell. He sat there next to his Chinese-American wife after Trump's "go back to where you came from" comments, one she's no doubt heard a time or two from racists in her life in the US, and sat there. Taking it all. Embracing the humiliation of the situation.

Call it a guilty pleasure.

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Maybe they’re not qualified or matched the criteria for various positions in the administration.

Like being white and pretending the administration isn't racist to the core?

Maybe there are a lot Blacks that are racist for stereotyping this President. 

The number one tactic used by Trumpists. Bigots called out on bigotry accuse their critics of being the actual bigots.

Schoolyard stuff, which sadly passes for debate these days.

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@burningbush Ben Carson is a Russian agent.

Given the alt right's support for Russia and Russian meddling in US affairs, I'm assuming you're saying that to give Carson more status in the alt right's 'minds'.

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@blacklabeYou’ve got it wrong. Carson is obviously racist too. Then it all makes liberal sense.

The liberals in your mind haunting you once again? One more example of the alt right reducing existence to black or white. I guess the KISS principle works best for those with limited reasoning skills, those who can only think in slogans. Preferable fewer than 7 words. Among them those who think White Americans 'have made amends', therefore the problems caused by racism can be ignored.

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You’ve got it wrong. Carson is obviously racist too. Then it all makes liberal sense.

Trump's racist because of his actions and comments, like refusing to rent to black people in NYC. Ben Carson is irrelevant to that. There's not much of a "get out of jail free" card available when you get sued for discrimination and lose. Twice.

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This is the part I love. Trump's only black cabinet member is trotted out to defend Trump's racist comments. The embracing of the humiliation. The kissing of the ring.

How are they racist?

Did he mention race?

This one is up there with McConnell. He sat there next to his Chinese-American wife after Trump's "go back to where you came from" comments, one she's no doubt heard a time or two from racists in her life in the US, and sat there. Taking it all. Embracing the humiliation of the situation.

You guys are reeeeeeally taking the race thing just a tad bit too far. Honestly, no one is listening to that anymore.

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You guys are reeeeeeally taking the race thing just a tad bit too far. Honestly, no one is listening to that anymore.

Racism has shaped the US since its inception. Anyone who claims it's not happening still, isn't paying attention.

And electing a centerist as PotUS is not making amends. It's just superficial.

From slavery to peonage and segregation, from incarcerations for just happening to be in the wrong area with the wrong skin pigment - the US has consistently treated many of citizens as second class.

Trump and his cult just perpetuates what each and every government has done before (whether they are Dem or Repub).

And the administration is canny enough to capitalize on any opportunity to divide and conquer. Because if the people every saw through the bs of racism, they'd rise up and boot out the charlatans who claim to "serve" America.

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Trump's only black cabinet member is trotted out to defend Trump's racist comments. 

Trump's racist because of his actions and comments, like refusing to rent to black people in NYC. 

First of all, SuperLib, you have to go all the back to the 1970s for that, lol, second, it wasn't just blacks, he was refusing to rent to welfare cases, white or black or whatever. And it's not racist to accurately say Baltimore is a rat-infested mess, so you're wrong when you say Trump is racist.

Fact: Trump and Carson have done more to help black people advance than any of the Democrats.

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Racism has shaped the US since its inception.

Not just the US. Every society where white people reside or countries that colonized people of color way before there was a USA. Let’s be fundamentally clear on that.

Anyone who claims it's not happening still, isn't paying attention.

And electing a centerist as PotUS is not making amends. It's just superficial.

The first Black President wasn’t a unifier as well. Racism goes both ways.

From slavery to peonage and segregation, from incarcerations for just happening to be in the wrong area with the wrong skin pigment - the US has consistently treated many of citizens as second class.

As other nations as well.

Trump and his cult just perpetuates what each and every government has done before (whether they are Dem or Repub).

Hogwash, If the country were that racist, Obama would have never made it to the Presidency, the music industry wouldn’t be predominantly Black as well as Sports, TV, Film. So claiming that Blacks have it bad, some of the most highest earners in the US are Black and only in the US is it possible for them to reach that great achievement.

And the administration is canny enough to capitalize on any opportunity to divide and conquer.

The colonial powers of Europe have done disastrous job of that.

Because if the people every saw through the bs of racism, they'd rise up and boot out the charlatans who claim to "serve" America.

Uh-huh...

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Fact: Trump and Carson have done more to help black people advance than any of the Democrats.

This statement has no basis in reality.

When it came to the HUD, Carson was against enforcing anti-discrimination laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/28/us/ben-carson-hud-fair-housing-discrimination.html

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You liberals simply don't understand that to be racist, you have to explicitly mention race in a derogatory manner, whci h is why Donny isn't racist.

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Love the argument that the US isn't racist because black people have never, sorry, blacks have never had it so good.

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Reporting facts, like Baltimore is a dysfunctional mess, or under the leadership of the infamous crack addict Marion Barry, D.C. had fecal material in its drinking water, is not racist. Its putting these worthless Dems on the spot, and now they can change or leave. Watching them in these debates is quite entertaining. The "people of color" are attacking the low hanging fruit, old white man Joe Bidden. Dont be fooled, they will turn on each other once Bidden is out.

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Reagan called Africans "monkeys who aren't used to wearing shoes".

The Republican Party isn't just institutionally racist - it thrives in and loves its racism.

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This statement has no basis in reality. 

Yes, it does.

When it came to the HUD, Carson was against enforcing anti-discrimination laws

Because just like with affirmative action, it makes the situation more racist.

Love the argument that the US isn't racist because black people have never, sorry, blacks have never had it so good.

No, as usual, you’re taking the extreme emotional and irrational position on this issue. blacks want the same thing that whites and asians have and that is the ability to make more money to have a chance of the American dream and Trump made that a reality, Obama didn’t and especially in the private sector job area.

https://jacobinmag.com/2017/12/obama-foreclosure-crisis-wealth-inequality

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Reagan called Africans "monkeys who aren't used to wearing shoes".

The Republican Party isn't just institutionally racist - it thrives in and loves its racism.

Woodrow Wilson- “Violence, lynching and virulent racism ... grieved him.” But when it came to lynching, he “deplored the passion, disorder, and sullied international image of white Americans rather than injury, horror and death of black Americans.”As for relations between the races, he was appalled that the French army allowed blacks to serve next to whites, and he worried about Communism creeping into the US among black veterans returning from World War I.

LBJ-These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. ‘I’ll have those n-word voting Democratic for 200 years’?

The Democrats favorite Senator, the late Democrat Byrd was a former Grand Wizard of the Klan, Hillary called him her mentor.

Liberals cant say a thing about Republicans or even them owning it, you have racists on both sides, but the liberals are the ones that want to always monopolize the word because it gives them a political edged to use race. It’s gotten so bad with their bias racism that Bernie Sanders can call Baltimore a rat sewer and no one would live there and Trump a conservative says it, he’s racist, so either both men are racist for essentially saying the same thing about Baltimore or they are not.

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Individuals who constantly use the term "blacks" instead of "black people" and defend Donny's racist rental practices whilst consistently using the term "white people" are clearly racist.

You see, the world is full of nuance.

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It is not emotional or irrational to point at the inanity of the argument that the US isn't racist because black props have never had it so good.

The black president bad argument is extremely trite at this point.

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Individuals who constantly use the term "blacks" instead of "black people" and defend Donny's racist rental practices whilst consistently using the term "white people" are clearly racist.

Is calling White people “Whites” racist now as well? Seriously?? Dear lord.....

It is not emotional or irrational to point at the inanity of the argument that the US isn't racist because black props have never had it so good.

It is a lame and hilarious and emotional fact less argument as always, liberals have overplayed and outplayed the race card.

The black president bad argument is extremely trite at this point

He started it, he started the identity politics debacle.

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What kind of logic leads to the conclusion that enforcing anti-discrimination laws creates racism? Wow. Just freaking wow.

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Let's see if there is any merit to the claim that Obama started identity politics:

The second half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of large-scale political movements—second wave feminism, Black Civil Rights in the U.S., gay and lesbian liberation, and the American Indian movements, for example—based in claims about the injustices done to particular social groups.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/

Given Obama wasn't in politics in the second half of the twentieth century, it is absolutely incorrect to claim he started identity politics.

Yes, I know that Stanford Universoty has as much credibility as Trump University, but simply trotting out a "liberal bad" argument won't refute that Obama did not start identity politics.

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Given Obama wasn't in politics in the second half of the twentieth century, it is absolutely incorrect to claim he started identity politics.

No, Obama did start it and he was supposed to be the unifier after the tension of the last years, he didn’t do that, he started excluding Whites, demonizing, the police, the military and their actions, Christian religion, made PC Front and Center, pushed more identity politics, neglected fly over states where most whites reside, the people that voted for Trump in large numbers were former Obama supporters, people that trusted him to unite the country and that didn’t happen. That was reverse racism to its fullest and that is equally. All racism is bad.

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well, as "race" is the root word from which "racist" comes..... yeah you would have to mention race in order to be racist.

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Erin Burnett Breaks Down Donald Trump’s Past Racist Use Of ‘Infested’

“Infest is a loaded word throughout history.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/erin-burnett-donald-trump-infested-trope_n_5d3fec29e4b01d8c9780ac72

No comments about Cummings using the word "infested" himself? Or are we going to spend all day deflecting from that?

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No, don’t dodge, I’m asking a perfectly legitimate question, please answer it for the record, is calling someone “White” as opposed to “White people” racist?

Youd think the master dodger would be able to accurately call out a dodge. I'll hold your hand again:

Individuals who constantly use the term "blacks" instead of "black people" and defend Donny's racist rental practices whilst consistently using the term "white people" are clearly racist.

You see, the world is full of nuance.

No one said that

Except you at 10:08:

Hogwash, If the country were that racist, Obama would have never made it to the Presidency, the music industry wouldn’t be predominantly Black as well as Sports, TV, Film. So claiming that Blacks have it bad, some of the most highest earners in the US are Black and only in the US is it possible for them to reach that great achievement.

Hilarious to watch you repeatedly deny your own words.

Sorry, I need to throw the truth and facts in and Democrats play a huge part in that.

Another fail.

No, Obama did start it

Sure. Never mind the research paper I cited disproving this. Plow on with your bad faith arguments.

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he didn’t do that, he started excluding Whites, demonizing, the police, the military and their actions, Christian religion, 

The evidence to support these assertions can be found here and here.

But, there are no links. Exactly.

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Bass:. You guys are reeeeeeally taking the race thing just a tad bit too far. Honestly, no one is listening to that anymore.

I just love it to death

McConnell knows his wife has heard that directed at her in a racist way. And he just sits there is silence. I love seeing what Trump can do to Republicans sometimes. Just absolute humiliation for Moscow Mitch, who deserves it.

Carson is up next. Destroy your craphole city. Embrace the humiliation for trailer trash. It's well deserved.

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liberal posts a racist term to prove that others make "racist" comments. Might want to rethink that one.

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So anyone want to discuss Cummings use of the word "infest" that was soooooo "racist" when Trump said it (especially before it was known Cummings used it too). Guess not. Moving on.

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