QOTD: Dr Ben Carson
by digby
“Certainly in a lot of our inner cities, in particular the black inner cities, where 73 percent of the young people are born out of wedlock, the majority of them have no father figure in their life. Usually the father figure is where you learn how to respond to authority,” Carson said. “So now you become a teenager, you’re out there, you have really no idea how to respond to authority, you eventually run into the police or you run into somebody else in the neighborhood who also doesn’t know how to respond but is badder than you are, and you get killed or you end up in the penal system.” […]
“I think a lot of it really got started in the ’60s with the ‘me generation,’” he replied. “‘What’s in it for me?’ I hate to say it, but a lot of it had to do with the women’s lib movement. You know, ‘I’ve been taking care of my family, I’ve been doing that, what about me?’ You know, it really should be about us.”
Dr Carson is a very accomplished men. He spent years in college and med school and years more performing complicated neurosurgery. I think his problem is that he never had time to read or watch anything that didn’t have to do with his medical practice until recently so he thinks all this stuff he’s learning and saying is fresh and new and nobody’s ever heard it before.
Nothing is more moldy and stale than that old trope. But I’m going to guess it will go over quite well with the Fox News crowd. They love stale and moldy.
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