ben carson
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The Search For The Soul Ben Carson Once Possessed
Dear Ben Carson, Yesterday, you said that enslaved people were immigrants, and whether you believe that deep down in the soul you used to possess, one can never know. Nevertheless, I am going to talk to you even though I fear you vacated your body a long time ago. I believe you sent yourself away…
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Samuel L. Jackson on Ben Carson’s ‘Immigrants’: ‘MUTHAF–KA PLEASE!!!’
Former neurosurgeon Ben Carson proved Monday that he knows absolutely nothing about slavery. Then Samuel L. Jackson proved that he has no problem calling the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development a dickhead. Be like Samuel L. Jackson. Don’t be like Ben Carson (well, unless you learn to stick to your medical…
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One Of Y'all Need To Call Or Text Or Email Y'all's Uncle Ben Carson And Tell Him That Slaves Weren't Immigrants
Repurposed Barcalounger with two dozen 10-year-old copies of Jet Magazine stuffed into it Ben Carson referred to slaves as immigrants during a speech he gave to HUD employees earlier today. This should be a surprise to exactly no one who has paid any attention to the words that have managed to escape Carson’s barely conscious…
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Ben Carson Calls Slaves ‘Immigrants’ During Speech
Someone, please go get Uncle Ben; he’s out here making an ass of himself again. One of the most renowned surgeons in the history of America, who is now the head of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, was giving a speech to staff when he referred to slaves as immigrants. “That’s what…
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Sean Spicer: President Trump Is Confirmed as New HUD Secretary … Psych, I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
On Thursday, shortly after Ben Carson was confirmed as secretary of housing and urban development, White House press secretary Sean “Spicy Facts” Spicer tweeted out this: Which proves what we’ve all known for quite some time: He’s this administration’s Barney Fife trying to solve a How to Get Away With Murder case. I mean, seriously,…
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Trump Makes Weird, Tone-Deaf Speech at African-American Museum
I’m really reaching my threshold with this president. On Tuesday he visited the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and made a tone-deaf, rambling speech. While we’ve become used to his stream of consciousness attempts at public speaking, Trump’s ability to just flat out act as if he’s not the perpetrator of…
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Here’s Why Trump’s Rhetoric Is Dangerous for Black People
In a so-called listening session last week to kick off Black History Month, some African Americans surrounded President Donald Trump at the White House, including former Apprentice contestant Omarosa Manigault and GOP political commentator Paris Dennard. Peppered with numerous racial missteps and misplaced critiques of the press, Trump’s breakfast-meeting remarks included an acknowledgment of Dr.…
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Trump on Black History Month: Where Frederick Douglass At? I See You, Baby!
President Donald Trump was surrounded by all his blacks on Wednesday. That’s right; Omarosa Manigault and Ben Carson were there to hear Trump shout out Frederick Douglass like he was a new artist coming out on Trump Records, during what I believe was supposed to constitute some form of Black History Month appreciation. “Frederick Douglass…
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Steve Harvey Sits Down to Talk About Changing the Inner City With Donald Trump and Ben Carson
TV Host Steve Harvey met with President-elect Donald Trump for a meeting at Trump Tower in New York City on Friday and took to Twitter to explain why. The host of Family Feud and The Steve Harvey Show said in his Twitter statement that he was asked by President Barack Obama to meet with Trump…
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Trump Logic: Ben Carson Grew Up Poor, so He Understands Poverty
Updated Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, 12:48 p.m. EST: Ben Carson sat before a Senate committee Thursday morning to make the case that he should be confirmed to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Carson leaned on his upbringing growing up in inner-city Detroit and his family’s need for public assistance, although they never…