Ben Carson: Black Lives Matter’s scope is too narrow
BERKLEY, Missouri— Republican presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson, the lone African-American candidate in the race for 2016, said the Black Lives Matter movement that has harangued politicians on both sides of the aisle is too limited in scope.“My beef with the Black Lives Matter movement has been, I think they need to add a word. And that word is ‘All.’ All Black Lives Matter,” Carson said after a visit with community leaders and politicians just miles from Ferguson, Missouri, where the movement took hold after a white police officer shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown last summer. “Including the ones that are eradicated by abortions, including the ones that are eradicated on the streets every day by violence. We need to be looking at all the factors that have kept the black community in a very dependent position for decades.” During an hour-and-a-half closed-door meeting, Carson said that he very well could have ended up like Brown, alluding to his formative years growing up with a single mother in a poor neighborhood in Baltimore, according to Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder, who spoke before Carson and attended the meeting. RELATED: Ben Carson draws thousands at campaign stops Carson later told reporters that he was touched after hearing the story of a businesswoman who worries about the fate of her three sons, adding that it recalled memories of his own upbringing. Carson’s mother often worked two and three jobs and often wouldn’t get home until after midnight, he said. “We were on our own,” Carson said. “And she must’ve been so worried about what could have happened to us.” http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ben-carson-black-lives-matters-scope-too-narrow
|