Posted on 03/06/2017 1:13:18 PM PST by Timpanagos1
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson referred to slaves as "immigrants" dreaming of a better life in a talk with department employees, according to Monday reports.
"That's what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity," Carson said. "There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less."
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His comments about men going to prison come out gay and his Pyramid theory turned me off on him.
According to Dr Carson, slaves work harder than your regular old American and they work for less money.
He mentioned slave ships, and many current blacks are descended from them.
While he refers to slaves as a type of immigrant, it’s obvious - or should be to anyone without an agenda- by his reference to them in the context of slave ships that he is not implying they freely came to America in pursuit of a better life... as is implied by the dishonest reporter’s creative editing.
Then is he suggesting we bring it back?
I wonder what they thought when Muhammad Ali said, “Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.”
“”That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,””
It should be pointed out that when you look back on it here in 2017, the Africans whose ancestors were brought over here on ships against their will are the lucky ones.
That would be factual.
The hardest work is that for which there is no compensation.
If you can refer to illegal aliens as “immigrants”, why could you not refer to slaves as “unwilling immigrants”?
JFK treated slaves as immigrants in the book published under his name. A Nation of Immigrants,
What's novel here is that his employees at HUD sold him out to the media, and the media thought this was worth a story.
But what they report he actually said:
There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less."
Where is the dreaming of a better life part?
Hint to lying media: When lying don't provide the evidence that you are lying in your article.
If Lincoln had not been Assassinated, he would have deported those “Immigrants” back to Africa.
He said as much.
Lincoln said he wanted to send the slaves back to Africa. “My first impulse would be to free all the slaves and send them to Liberia.” (Ottawa, August 21, 1858)
Ah I see. Yeah after they got here they wanted a better life for their decedents...imagine that. The implication in their characterization was that Carson was implying they dreamed of a better life then came here to seek it.
forgot to put up the /s tag. sorry
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