Dr. Ben Carson was a guest on American Family Radio’s “Today’s Issues” and discussed the events happening in Ferguson. In typical misogynistic fashion, the 2016 GOP hopeful reached as far as he could to tie the women’s liberation movement and the “Me” generation to unarmed teens like Mike Brown being shot and killed.
Yes, you read that right.
According to the retired neurosurgeon, women who want equal rights are to blame for the death of Mike Brown – not institutionalized racism.
“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,” Carson asserted, and said it is the reason the kids “have 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,” he added.
Show host Lauren Kitchen Stewards’ comments about “entitlement” gave Carson the perfect segue to blame women:
“I think a lot of it really got started in the ’60s with the ‘Me’ generation. ‘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.”
This is the kind of reaction we have come to expect from the right. It’s only going to get worse. They will have a majority in Congress for the next two years and they are positively petrified that Hillary Clinton will emerge the victor in the 2016 primary.
The GOP rationale is easy to pinpoint – gender equality is the downfall of any civilized society. Just ask the doctor who says he feels the “fingers” of God urging him to run for POTUS in 2016.
Video/audio courtesy of Right Wing Watch.
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