Dr. Ben Carson Strikes Back at MSNBC's Toure Neblett: I'm No Uncle Tom

NewsBusters.org ^ | March 26, 2013 | Noel Sheppard

[Kaslin]

MSNBC’s Toure Neblett last weekend mocked Dr. Benjamin Carson as a token “black friend” to Republicans admired only to “assuage their guilt” for past racial indiscretions.

On Fox News’s America Live Tuesday, Carson struck back at his liberal media critics saying that he’s no “Uncle Tom” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Dr. Ben Carson Strikes Back at MSNBC's Toure Neblett: I'm No Uncle Tom

MEGYN KELLY, HOST: Boy, have you been attacked. A token you've been called, an Oreo, please pardon me for repeating these to you. Most recently a commentator on a rival network said you’ve been embraced because you're smart and helpful in assuaging white people's guilt and went to on to say that you’re enjoying the GOP’s version of affirmative action because then people will get to put on a bumper sticker on their car saying “How can I be racist, I would have voted for Dr. Ben Carson?” Your thoughts on the attacks on you?

DOCTOR BENJAMIN CARSON: Well, you know, if you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. And you know, if you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. You know, intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. This is something that we need to move beyond in this country, and let's have a real discussion about the real facts. If somebody disagrees, let's talk about why they disagree, let's talk about the pros and cons, let's see if we can find some accommodation. But to sit around and act like third graders is nonproductive.

KELLY: So quick to dismiss some of your ideas because they're coming from a man who happens to be a black man. And Condoleezza Rice actually was on the Fox News Channel a couple of years ago speaking to our own Sean Hannity, and she said, because she was subjected to some of this, “If you look at a black person and you say that person has to think in a particular way, I don't care if you're white or black, if you say that, then you've got a prejudice, then you are the one with the prejudice.” Do you think that the people who just dismiss you as a token have a prejudice of their own?

CARSON: Oh, well, there's no question. They feel if that you look a certain way then you have to stay on the plantation. You know I've heard some people refer to me as an Uncle Tom. Well, obviously they don't know what an Uncle Tom is because they need to read Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom's Cabin.” You’ll see that he was very, very subservient, kind of go along to get along type person. Obviously, that's not what I'm doing.

And what the left frequently does, and some aspects of the right, too, is they try to make life so unpleasant for anybody who disagrees with them that people will keep silent. And I know that it's working because so many people come up to me and say, “Thank you, thank you for having the courage to express this. This is the same way I feel.” But most people won't speak up. I'm trying to get people to speak up because, you know, this country is changing into something else, and we need to make sure that we really want it to change into something else and not just end up there and ask ourselves how did we get there.

[Salamander]

” to Republicans admired only to “assuage their guilt” for past racial indiscretions.”

Martin Luther King was racist.

/s

[bigheadfred]

But please al don't let that lunatic drive.

anna lose my seat in the back of the bus????? nooooo

[ilovesarah2012]

I heard him say basically that he wwas sqeaky clean and said the left won’t find anything.

[Gator113]

I like Dr. Carson thus far. He has my sincere attention. However, if he shows ANY weakness pertaining to the second amendment, he’s toast.

The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is not negotiable, period.

[bboop]

The reason I voted for George W. Bush, my first Republican ever (but not last) was NOT that I agreed with every single thing he stood for, but because he had thought about what he believed, he believed it, and he thought for himself.

I do not look for any spokesman, any candidate to match up with my stance on every single topic. I look for someone with convictions that are moral and the courage of his convictions.

I do not care a fig if Dr. Carson believes in the 2nd Amendment or not. It is not one person’s decision to keep it or not. It is in the Constitution. He is a wonderfully thoughtful, courageous man who is willing to risk being attacked to save this country. What’s not to like?

[HawkHogan]

Oh I have no problem with Ben Carson. I’m a huge fan. I just know a lot on this board were soured about some of his quotes on the 2nd Amendment.

However, he just a HUGE stand against same sex marriage on national TV, on the day the SCOTUS is hearing prop8.

[Gay State Conservative]

Let's see now...Dr Cardin is a neurosurgeon...A DAMN BRAIN SURGEON...at one of the WORLD'S FINEST HOSPITALS...and yet to America's Maoists he's nothing more than "Uncle Tom"?

Un-flipping-believable!

Actually,on second thought...it's *very* predicable.

[ilovesarah2012]

I completely agree with you. I’m reading his book America The Beautiful and he has had an amazing life and has accomplished so much against the odds, the opposite of Odumbo.
I have so much respect for him and his grasp of the issues that face America today. If anyone has the opportunity to read his book, I highly recommend it.

[Sioux-san]

Both

[wjcsux]

There was an article about Dr Carson in Voice magazine about 20 some years ago. It was titled “Gifted Hands”. He told his life story. It is worth the read if you can find it.

[logitech]

Megyn called him “boy.”

Yeah, I can’t wait until Dr Carson goes on some liberal show and a commentor (after the show) says “Hey, so and so, “owned” him.”

[Glenmore]

“I heard him say basically that he wwas sqeaky clean and said the left won’t find anything.”

They don’t have to find anything; they can always just make sh*t up and have it accepted by most as true.

[Fightin Whitey]

We'll keep the seat cool fer ya brother

[acapesket]

Megan K Is a Useless vamp, she has the brain power of a 25 watt bulb.

[Rusty0604]

I saw him talk about that, and he was saying that he was concerned mostly in urban areas that the gangs and other criminals committing gun violence with illegal gotton guns needs to be addressed.

[NKP_Vet]

That little black punk Toure Neblett is not fit to tie Dr. Benjamin Carson’s shoes. The man has forgot more than this little sissy will ever know.

[NKP_Vet]

Tell one of those liberal loudmouths on PMSNBC that MLK was a republican and PRO-LIFE and they will argue with you till the cows come come. Anyone think if MLK were alive today he would be promoting sodomite “marriage”? Not on your life.
Hypocrite REVEREND brotha Jesse Jackson and REVEREND brotha
Al Sharpton were also pro-life before they jumped on the baby killing train with the rest of the left-wing lunatics. Wonder where in the Bible it says it’s OK to murder your own child?
Maybe Brotha Jesse or Al can show me.

[Salamander]

Sometimes, I wish I could willfully ignore facts and reality like liberals do.

I’d probably be happier.

[does Rolling Stone magazine still sell “ordained minister” certificates for $10]

[Sgt_Schultze]

Toray sees in himself a man who is where he is in life only because of affirmative action. So he supposes a much more accomplished black man must also have been handed his station in life.

[Marcella]

Guns and Dr. Carson: I heard him speak about guns and he said people had a right to defend themselves but he worried about having guns in a city where so much violence could be done. He said guns were fine in a country setting, but not in a city.