Ben Carson High is like ‘having Trump’s name on our school in blackface,’ Detroit board member says
If anyone represented what a Detroit High School student could become with the proper dedication and focus, it was Ben Carson — or so the thinking went.
He graduated from Southwest High School in 1969, two years after riots in Detroit began to paint the Motor City as an dreary symbol of urban decay. He went on to become a world-renowned pediatric neurosurgeon, operating on fetuses inside the womb and separating twins conjoined at the head.?
Carson “is doing Trump’s bidding, and he has adversely affected the African American community in Detroit as well as the nation with his housing policies,” Lemmons said. “And he’s allied himself with a president that says he is a white nationalist and sends dog whistles that even the deaf can hear.”
It wasn’t always this way for Detroit or for Lemmons.
When Carson came to speak at a Detroit church nearly two decades ago, Lemmons brought his granddaughter and took a photo of the surgeon holding the baby. For a time, Lemmons said, it was a cherished family memory.
And shortly before Carson launched his ultimately unsuccessful bid for president in 2015, he showed up at his namesake school and spoke to students, according to the Detroit News, imparting a lesson on resilience.
“People are always going to tell you what you can’t do,” Carson told the assembled students. “But you don’t have to accept that.
I agree, Dr. Ben Carson accomplished so much, and he has been a philanthropist, helping other kids, and they treat him like this.
President Trump has never said that he is a WHITE NATIONALIST. He only said that he is a nationalist as opposed to being a globalist. I HATE these lying pontificators. To do this to as good a man as Dr. Carson is so despicable.
“And he’s allied himself with a president that says he is a white nationalist”
Fake news! He never said white nationalist. Just Nationalist. And he explained it perfectly, it’s nationalist versus globalist.
Ben Carson should be a role model for all black children. But apparently the black community doesn’t want their children to succeed.