Look like anyone, I applaud the life story of Ben Carson. I further like the fact that he professes to be a Christian and in many things he appears to be living out the Christian ideal. But I have a problem with black conservatism. The concept of conservatism has been misrepresented to them. So called Black conservatives believe in propriety and deliberative political and economic governance. Whites founded conservatism on the belief that segregation and the legal discrimination of blacks needed to be protected (conserved) from federal intervention, and the civil rights movement. Black conservatives believe in a social policy that is predicated on the idea that discrimination is over and that the playing field is level enough that there is no longer a need for judicial intervention in the public square. Whites believe that they owe no redress of wrongs nor reparations to the progeny (descendants) of former slaves. They see they trans-generational harm of slavery as repaired or as in the case of the Jewish Holocaust by many Islamists, a figment of mythology. Dr. Carson is a being used by these persons as a very well intentioned dupe. He joins others like Clarence Thomas, Vernon Jordan, Juan Williams, and others as token Negroes who give the happy slave narrative a sense of truth. To compare the student body of Rutgers University rejecting her as a commencement speaker to the atrocity of the wrongful death of young Trayvon Martin suggests that this well-renowned physician is out of his depth in regard to the condition of the African diaspora in America. Pray for Dr. Carson and others who have fallen victim to white Republicans, Tea Party members (Dixiecrats in disguise), and others who see our President as un-American, and some type of political despot. But trust that they truly have come to believe their own rhetoric and hype.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Apr 2014 01:59:38 +0000
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