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If I subsequently remained in Mexico permanently, you could call me either.
As I said in my post - if you were abducted across the border and lived in a Mexican basement against your will until you died, would you then consider yourself an immigrant to Mexico or a kidnapped American citizen?
A successful, likeable, respected, Republican, black man who was raised in poverty by a single mother praises this land of opportunity for all who arrive on her shores.
Is it a surprise the purveyors of victimhood, Leftists, hate him and attack him?
As I said in my post - if you were abducted across the border and lived in a Mexican basement against your will until you died, would you then consider yourself an immigrant to Mexico or a kidnapped American citizen?
Again. Here is another citation:
The article entitled Colonial Immigration was written by Ben Marsh at the University of Stirling, Scotland in 2006, and was reviewed on the New Georgia Encyclopedia:
A successful, likeable, respected, Republican, black man who was raised in poverty by a single mother praises this land of opportunity for all who arrive on her shores.
Is it a surprise the purveyors of victimhood, Leftists, hate him and attack him?
I wonder if Dr. Carson would view those fleeing war in the Middle East, that come to this county, in the same light?
If we go with his statement that African slaves may be viewed as 'immigrants', would not refugees from the Middle East likewise be considered immigrants? Do they not want simply to come to this land of opportunity?
A successful, likeable, respected, Republican, black man who was raised in poverty by a single mother praises this land of opportunity for all who arrive on her shores.
Is it a surprise the purveyors of victimhood, Leftists, hate him and attack him?
The problem with the good Dr. is there are countless probably thousands of African Americans who too have pulled themselves up by their boot straps. Ben Carson wants Republicans to think he is a rare breed. He is not. Most successful African Americans have routinely accomplished what Ben Carson did in regard to escaping the hood and chasing their dreams. He can’t even use the word slave because he thinks it might upset his host.
How do you know this? Their choice if they stayed where there were, was certain execution by the African country that captured them. Many may have very willingly walked onto those slave ships as the alternative.
Your argument fails on two accounts. You first make unproven assumptions. Second, you seek to redefine the word "come" to limit it to someone who makes a choice.
Ben Carson was 100% correct when he called slaves, immigrants.
Carson said:
"There were other immigrants who came in the bottom of slave ships, who worked even longer, even harder, for less, but they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land,"
Do you think that the people crammed into the hold of a slave ship were thinking, as they were chained and whipped, that one day their descents "might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land"? The land run by the people that owned them? That beat them?
In the same manner that a farmer or blacksmith could dream their children could pursue a calling higher than them?
You are really defending Carson's stupid utterances?
Who cares. Emotional yapping is not part of the natural sciences. Dr. Ben Carson made medical history and in terms of applied sciences in medicine and the surgical field he'd run mental laps around both of us.
Go out and make history yourself before you try in envy to steal the thunder from an overachiever who is also ethnically Black-American. I don't care for Dr. Carson's religious affiliation but you don't see me trying to denegrate him because of that.
Wanna explain what you just said?
Nobody said he wasn't an accomplished surgeon.
Still doesn't change the fact that what he said was stupid.
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Lol, this thread proves how brain dead cons are. Not to be taken seriously at all.
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