Ben Carson told Chris Jansing that slaves were "immigrants."

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

[RockaFowler]

1. Woah

When you think they can go any lower - something like this pops up

I don't even know what to say anymore. I feel like I'm living in an alternate reality.

Up is Down. Black is white.

My head is spinning right now

[guillaumeb]

2. Perhaps Carson saw the musical

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and is a bit confused?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Under Trump's alternative facts, slaves were involuntary immigrants. nt

[kimbutgar]

4. Obviously he forgot about them being captured, chained up and transported thousands of miles

Against their will. I guess old Ben never saw the movie ROOTS.

[coco22]

5. He is a DUMBASS!

[littlemissmartypants]

6. .

Brain damaged neurosurgeon. What are the odds?

[KeepItReal]

7. Here's the original statement by so-called Sec. Carson

Check out @SteveKopack's Tweet:

Link to tweet

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[progressoid]

13. Wow.

[asuhornets]

17. OMG!!! He has no idea of his job responsibilities....nt

[MineralMan]

8. Sure they were...Ben

They paid good money for those comfy bunks on the slave ships, too, right? Then they happily suffered the slave markets, beatings and worse once they got here. All the while, they were thinking about how great it would be to bring their families to America?

Really...Ben...Really?

Go visit that new museum there in DC, Ben. Spend a long time there, OK? Sounds to me like you've lost touch with history.

[jalan48]

9. How can a smart man be so stupid?

[Solly Mack]

10. Link to video of Carson saying "other immigrants who came here in bottom of slave ship"

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Link to tweet

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[Doreen]

11. Yeah, they sure as hell did dream all of that

while chained in a tight quartered room on hard slabs of wood panels and lying next to their dead rotting friend. Sure as hell you mofo.

[spanone]

12. so ben, are these people coming in wearing chains? have they been bought?

[Ms. Toad]

14. Here's the full quote.

"That's what America is about, a land of dreams and opportunity," Carson said. "There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, 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."

I was hoping it was taken out of context . . . but not so much.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

16. WTF... I can't believe this came out of the mouth of a black American.

Black people should give him hell for that.

[TheDebbieDee]

18. Ben's Black card was revoked years ago...

[Wounded Bear]

15. I believe a more accurate term would be "imports"...

[Fred Sanders]

19. Ben, you realize that you too have a black skin and nothing will change that?

And if slaves were immigrants, what were native Americans....invaders?

[struggle4progress]

20. Textbook Company to Update Description (October 2015)

Tanya Basu
Oct 04, 2015

Textbook publishing giant McGraw-Hill will rewrite a section of a book after a Houston mother complained that the text made light of the treatment of the slaves that were forcibly brought to the Americas from Africa.

Outrage over the textbook language spread after Roni Dean-Burren posted an Instagram of a text message from her son, Coby. The freshman had sent along a photo from his World Geography textbook that described African slaves as "workers" and "immigrants" ...

http://time.com/4060687/mcgraw-hill-slavery-trade-textbook/

[47of74]

21. If I was in a position of authroity at MGH

The following things would be automatic termination offenses for employees who allow any of the following into school textbooks

- Materials downplaying / supporting the Holocaust
- Materials downplaying / supporting slavery
- Materials downplaying / supporting Jim Crow