Posted on 11/05/2015 5:47:06 PM PST by TigerClaws
Newly minted Republican presidential front-runner late Wednesday night went online to further a narrative that he has been using for weeks on the campaign trail, describing a childhood filled with homelessness, hunger and hard times.
The retired surgeon used his Facebook page sometime after 11 p.m. to post a rambling defense of his lack of political experience, his pride at his years as a neurosurgeon, and a hard-luck boyhood in which he says he witnessed segregation first-hand.
'I grew up poor. I know what it is like to be homeless and hungry. I know the pain of poverty... I know what it is like to see water fountains you are not allowed to drink out of because of your skin color,' Carson wrote.
'I also know that once you peel back the skin, the brain is the same no matter what your skin color or continent you live on.'
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I am 71 and never saw those. Of course my schools were segregated until a year or so after I graduated. State had its first black student whle I was there and there were no B/W water fountains. I am trying to remember but I do not even remember any public fountains for anyone in my small town. And, the sidewalks were rolled up before dark. Stores closed on Thursday afternoon for people to take care of their victory gardens. Everyone had one if they lived in town. We grew all our food including meat. A much simpler time.
Lol, from the graveyard of forgotten meme’s its Looter Guy!
And similarly, Carson is doomed by this own mouth.
He probably heard a Sunday school teacher or a SDA preacher say this c. 1960 and remembered it.
He’s old enough. I remember them well in the late sixties. I’m from in and around the Dallas area and I’m 69.
Now, I see he was in Detroit, not yet MD. I wonder if there were segregated fountains in Detroit: likely NOT. MI never had school segregation, and people there are huge civil rights activists.
Carson isn’t ‘dumb’ - he just has a propensity to pontificate about a variety of subjects on which he knows very little.
He also has a tendency to lie about his past. He said he didn’t have anything to do with the fake drug company, but on YouTube you can see him giving testimonials for them, including saying they cured him of cancer.
He said he was a knife-wielding thug as a youth, but those who knew his family back then said he was a quiet, bookish boy.
He’s not ready for prime time. This is another unforced error.
In 1969, a driver entering Alabama on the Interstate
might be greeted by billboards of a mounted KKK rider on a rearing white horse, with the words, “You’re in Klan country!”
Exactly right. PALINization is what is happening here. And it is a shame to see so many Freepers jumping on the bandwagon.
Ben, Ben, Ben, please do not play the race card.
Maryland may have, but Dr. Ben didn’t hit Maryland until Medical School, long after desegregation. He was raised in Michigan.
He might have heard the stories of his parents and grandparents, which were true. Insults like this take a long time to forget. I’m sure a large proportion of the black population may be convinced that somewhere out there there are segregated water fountains to this day.
My older brother drank out of the colored-only fountain when he was a kid and didn’t understand why they had their own because the water tasted the same as the white fountain.
Why not ?
It’s about time the race card was used for a good cause.
:-). Well that about says it all on segregated water fountains.
Here’s two articles relevant to your comment:
1: Mannatech: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/01/facts-dr-ben-carson-mannatech/
2: Stabbing: http://nationalreport.net/breaking-ben-carson-named-possible-suspect-unsolved-1970-stabbing/
We Were So Poor Script
Four well-dressed men sitting together at a vacation resort. “Farewell to Thee” being played in the background on Hawaiian guitar.
Michael Palin: Ahh.. Very passable, this, very passable.
Graham Chapman: Nothing like a good glass of Chateau de Chassilier wine, ay Gessiah?
Terry Gilliam: You’re right there Obediah.
Eric Idle: Who’d a thought thirty years ago we’d all be sittin’ here drinking Chateau de Chassilier wine?
MP: Aye. In them days, we’d a’ been glad to have the price of a cup o’ tea.
GC: A cup ‘ COLD tea.
EI: Without milk or sugar.
TG: OR tea!
MP: In a filthy, cracked cup.
EI: We never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.
GC: The best WE could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.
TG: But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.
MP: Aye. BECAUSE we were poor. My old Dad used to say to me, “Money doesn’t buy you happiness.”
EI: ‘E was right. I was happier then and I had NOTHIN’. We used to live in this tiiiny old house, with greaaaaat big holes in the roof.
GC: House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
TG: You were lucky to have a ROOM! *We* used to have to live in a corridor!
MP: Ohhhh we used to DREAM of livin’ in a corridor! Woulda’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! House!? Hmph.
EI: Well when I say “house” it was only a hole in the ground covered by a piece of tarpolin, but it was a house to US.
GC: We were evicted from *our* hole in the ground; we had to go and live in a lake!
TG: You were lucky to have a LAKE! There were a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road.
MP: Cardboard box?
TG: Aye.
MP: You were lucky. We lived for three months in a brown paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!
GC: Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at three o’clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of hot gravel, go to work at the mill every day for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would beat us around the head and neck with a broken bottle, if we were LUCKY!
TG: Well we had it tough. We used to have to get up out of the shoebox at twelve o’clock at night, and LICK the road clean with our tongues. We had half a handful of freezing cold gravel, worked twenty-four hours a day at the mill for fourpence every six years, and when we got home, our Dad would slice us in two with a bread knife.
EI: Right. I had to get up in the morning at ten o’clock at night, half an hour before I went to bed, (pause for laughter), eat a lump of cold poison, work twenty-nine hours a day down mill, and pay mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our Dad would kill us, and dance about on our graves singing “Hallelujah.”
MP: But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won’t believe ya’.
ALL: Nope, nope..
I used to play basketball in my blue canvas Chuck Converse hi-tops. The soles were worn out so every now and then I had to stop and fill the inside with newspaper.
They spend more time trying to dig up dirt on this guy in 3 days than they spent in 8 years looking into 0bama’s past.
Carson’s not alone in that belief. I believe that it may be “doctrine” of his religion (Jehovah Witness).
http://io9.com/10-bizarre-theories-about-the-pyramids-that-dont-involv-1648634533
I don’t think Carson was talking about a little grain in a basket in
the tomb.
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