Ben Carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, on Thursday slammed Democrats who called President Trump a racist, saying they “could not be wrong.”
“President Trump is not involved in identity politics,” Carson said during a speech to the Republican National Convention. He added: “Many on the other hand maintain division by claiming that President Trump is a racist. They could not be wrong.”
Carson, a neurosurgeon best known for performing the first successful twin divorce in 1987, pointed to Trump securing permanent funding for the nation’s historic black colleges and universities with bilingual legislation in place. 2019, and set up a program to encourage investment in low-income communities as part of the 2017 tax levy (according to a report released by the administration on Monday, the so-called opportunity zones have attracted $ 75 billion in capital by 2019).
Carson also noted that before the coronavirus pandemic began, the African-American unemployment rate was at its lowest level on record.
“President Trump is the most pro-life president in the history of our country,” he said. “He will continue to fight for those who are not yet able to speak.”
Carson also referred to Jacob Blake’s police shooting in Kenosha, Wis., And the at the time violent protests that erupted in the course of a viral video that showed police seizing him seven times in the back shot. Blake, 29, survived, but lawyers for his family have said he is paralyzed from the waist down.
“History reminds us that necessary change comes through hope and love, not senseless and destructive violence,” Carson said.
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The shooting has rekindled racial unrest across the country that began earlier this summer after the death of George Floyd, a Black man, who died after a White Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee into his neck for at least eight minutes.
“As Jacob’s mother urged the country, ‘Let’s use our hearts, our love and our intelligence to work together, to show the rest of the world how people should treat each other. America is great as we behave very much, ‘”said Carson. “To succeed in change, we must first come together in love for our citizens.”
During a third night of unrest, looting and vandalism, two people were killed and a third was seriously injured by fireworks. Authorities have charged 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse with murder. He is in custody in Illinois, the Antioch Police Department announced Thursday in a Facebook post. His lawyers claim that Rittenhouse acted in self-defense.
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Carson grew up in Detroit with a single mother who relied on subsidized housing and food stamps to support her two children, a fact he pointed out in his speech.
“My mother always told me, ‘Ben, you can do anything, but I’ll never allow you to fall victim,'” he said. “It was then that I stopped listening to the people who were trying to convince me that I was a victim and that others were responsible for my victim.”
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