'How Is That Supposed To Make The Country Better?': Ben Carson Rails Against Critical Race Theory

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Speaking at the Turning Point Action Conference on Sunday, former GOP Presidential candidate Ben Carson spoke about critical race theory.

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00:00How are you doing everybody? Great to see you. This is a homecoming for Dr. Carson.

00:12Dr. Carson, you grew up not far from here.

00:15I grew up in Detroit. It's been my first several years here.

00:21And you know, Detroit gets a bad rap all the time about being a horrible place, but I can tell you for certain

00:27there were a lot of people here who thought the right way, who believed in America, who encouraged me

00:33to climb the ladder of opportunity and that you could do anything that you could imagine.

00:39And they believed in the difference between right and wrong and law and order.

00:44That was Detroit. But what has happened is that a lot of people who actually think the right way

00:54and have the right values aren't willing to stand up for them.

00:59And the fact of the matter is, you cannot be the land of the free if you're not the home of the brave.

01:12So Dr. Carson, I believe you are one of the most impressive and important Americans alive today.

01:22I truly believe that.

01:28You have saved countless lives personally.

01:31And you've also impacted millions of people through your testimony and through your public advocacy.

01:37I want to stay on Detroit for just a second.

01:40Your story from Detroit to being one of the top surgeons on the planet is a remarkable one.

01:47And it's one that is only possible in America.

01:51I believe that if every black American learned more about Dr. Carson than critical race theory,

01:58our country would be in a much better place.

02:06And you know, there was a time when individuals like myself who worked very hard,

02:16who believed in God, who believed in right and wrong,

02:20had values that made us into a great nation were celebrated.

02:25But now there's a faction that denigrates those people,

02:30says that they're Uncle Toms and all kinds of things that they're called.

02:36They don't appreciate them because they're more interested in getting people to believe that they're victims.

02:42And, you know, teaching little white children that their ancestors are oppressors

02:48and little black children and minorities that they're victims.

02:52Tell me, how is that supposed to make the country better?

02:56There's no way that that does anything except cause division.

03:01And remember this, you know, the United States of America is the major obstacle

03:14to one world government and Marxism in our system.

03:20And that's why there's such an effort to overcome us,

03:27but they cannot overcome us militarily, we're much too strong.

03:31So the only way they can overcome us is interiorly.

03:35They work with the fabric of our country, they denigrate the families,

03:41they denigrate the communities, they denigrate our values,

03:44and they drive wedges between the people on the basis of race, age, income, gender,

03:51political affiliation, religion, you name it.

03:55Driving wedges, getting us to hate each other, when the fact of the matter is,

04:00our strength came through our unity.

04:03There were times in the early parts of our country where we had communities

04:08that were separated from each other by 100 miles, only 25, 50, 100 families.

04:13They spoke different languages.

04:16But not only did they survive, they thrived.

04:20Why did they thrive? Because they understood the concept of the common good.

04:25That was something that you heard very frequently.

04:30You know, not what's good for this group versus that group,

04:35not that this group had a problem before, so now let's make this group have a problem,

04:40but what works for everybody.

04:43And that is the thing that is so attractive about Donald Trump.

04:47He recognized that the rising tides looked our boat.

04:51Don't try to separate people, let's work together.

'How Is That Supposed To Make The Country Better?': Ben Carson Rails Against Critical Race Theory

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