Ben Carson's latest claims - he was homeless, hungry and saw segregation at water fountains

Daily Mail ^

[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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[sparklite2]

I know you know the media is liberalism entanked, so the lack of equal treatment is just a cliche’.

[smokingfrog]

That’s probably true, but they weren’t storehouses.

[spokeshave]

Life is stranger than fiction

From a couple of popular Japanese Manga series:

Jin Minakata, an ordinary brain surgeon, has an accident after his operation with an unidentified patient, and realizes that he has traveled back in time and reached the end of the Edo period. Through an encounter with various historical characters, Jin sets up a small clinic Jin'yudo and saves those suffering from disease and injury with his medical skills.

Then there is the Black Jack series: Black Jack: the Dark Surgeon. Written by, Kenji Yamamoto ..... Because he was of a mixed blood, half-African and half-Japanese, the skin had a dark complexion.

In one episode Tezuka's superhuman surgeon Black Jack operates on himself without an anaesthetic.

[sparklite2]

“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.”

We couldn’t afford new shoes so I wore my Converse hi-tops out up the the ankle. I walked around barefoot with canvas spats!

[El Cid]

I am very stunned that a man of his education can think grain was stored in the Pyrimids. I can only speculate that this was something taught by his cult religion.

It is his pet theory - and it is undoubtedly incorrect - but so what? I appreciate the fact that it tells me that he believes the Bible is absolutely true. That is the fundamental point where 99 out of hundred people go wrong.
He knows that Joseph was a bigwig in Egypt.
He knows that Joseph built large granaries to feed the country of Egypt during the great famine.
Then he messes up by speculating that the Pyramids were these granaries.

In my mind that is a nit given that he got the first principle correct: That the Bible is Truth. I will give him a pass on stumbling on his speculation (and he did say it was just his personal opinion).

[mplsconservative]

Carson is a Seventh Day Adventist, not a Jehovah Witness, fyi.

[Oatka]

I’m not that much younger than him but I never once saw a segregated water fountain.

I worked in South Carolina in the late '60s and not only saw segregated water fountains, but bathrooms that said "White Men", "White Women" and "Colored" (long before the unisex thingy). That one REALLY pist me off as I wouldn't want my wife using the same bathroom as men.

[Sidebar] Harry Golden ran a newspaper called "The Carolina Israelite" back then and wrote an article on how he helped desegregate a Sears store in North Carolina. He was friends with the manager, who held views similar to his own, and asked him to conduct an experiment.

"Out of Order" signs were placed on all the "White" drinking fountains. The first few days, whites would head for the fountain, read the sign, and walk away. By Day Three, they'd look around to see if anyone was watching, and if the coast was clear, drink from the "Colored" fountains. After a week, they didn't bother to look around. After another week, the "White" and "Colored" signs came down and nobody complained.

Allow me to belabor the point with a family anecdote about our experiences down there. My wife, as well as our family were all brought up in the North. My sister and my wife go to the laundromat and come back saying that "these Southerners are weird". I asked them what happened. They said they finished putting the clothes in the washers, turned around, and found both blacks and whites glaring at them. WTH??

It finally came out that part of those Southerners' weirdness was that they had washers for colored clothes and washers white ones, so, according to the signs, they put all the colored clothes in one machine and whites in the other. Their first lesson in Segregation 101.

[tumblindice]

When my Chucks got that bad, my mother took them from me and laced them together to make a hat for my brother.
The soles of my feet were so heavily calloused they wore down the bare wood floor, so I had to walk around the house on my knees.
We were so poor that when my little brother broke his arm we had to take him out to the airport for x-rays. We licked stamps for dinner.
We were so poor my dad would eat Cheerios with a fork so he could pass the milk around the table. We were so poor we didn’t even use the O and the R.
Once we opened a box of old Jiffy Corn meal that we bought for a few pennies from the Korean store on the corner, and it was full of weevils. We tossed out the bigger ones and kept the lesser weevils. All six of us ate like kings!
You had spats ... nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.
No sir. sigh

[sparklite2]

When I was very young, we would use bed sheets until the were too worn to fit the bed. So we’d use them for towels, until they wore down too small, then we’d use them for wash rags. When the wash rags wore down too small to use, we’d put them in a box and save them up until we have enough saved that we could sew them together ... to make sheets.

[TBP]

He very well might have.

[tumblindice]

`Sheets’? We didn’t have beds. We slept standing up.

When relatives came to visit, we would put sturdy, handmade wood hangers under their collars and hang them in closets.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Back when the impeached former president and accused rapist Bill Clinton recollected his vivid memories of church burnings in his home town, do you remember all the questions he faced from the media?

Yeah, me neither.

[TigerClaws]

Or when Obama said his parents met at Selma. Or Hillary was named after Sir Edumund, who scaled Everest a few years AFTER she was born.

Dems are never called out on their lies.

[Mariner]

I want to know who the stupid people are who are voting for him.

[nevermorelenore]

I’m not THAT old, and I remember the segregation and the use of the “N” word was totally common.

[marron]

I remember the segregated drinking fountains, rest rooms, and so on. And I wasn’t in the hard south and I’m not that old. OK, maybe I am getting kind of old these days.

[JRandomFreeper]

It would be illegal for my 'special friend' to even be in this neighborhood after dark. That was when I was a little bitty guy.

When we had a talk about that, she found it somewhat disconcerting. She had never experienced discrimination like that.

/johnny

[South40]

I'm not that much younger than him but I never once saw a segregated water fountain. But then I was raised in the racist south and he was raised in the enlightened north.

North/South matters. I was raised in the south and I remember it quite well. Carson is 6 years older than me so he could remember it also, had he been in the south. But he was born and raised in Michigan.

Back then gas stations had 3 restrooms; men, women and colored. I attended segregated schools. Black neighborhoods had their own restaurants, whites had theirs and they did not co-mingle. The south during the 60s was far different from Michigan and I can't imagine how he experienced any of this unless he visited his parents' home state of Tennessee, which he could have.

[VerySadAmerican]

You’re a year younger than me. I lived in Arkansas and saw white and colored public rest rooms and there were restaurants that would only serve blacks through the side window. But that went away in 1969. It was supposed to go away in 1964 but not in my home town.

I didn’t know Carson was as old as me. If he is then I stand corrected.

But I know for a fact that Bill Clinton never “heard” about black churches burning in Arkansas. I actually gave him the benefit of the doubt because until I checked it out I, too, had thought there had PROBABLY been a few burned in Arkansas.

[octex]

I wish these people would realize the robo calls just turn people off.
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Me too! I see items from various posters saying they “polled”, say 500, but how many of those contacted actually hung up... 70%? I’m 73 and have never been contacted by a pollster. Only ONE of my many friends has said she replied to a pollster. .............I’ve read many times that most Republicans refuse polls and often lie at exit polls after voting.