Ben Carson's Vision for 'Hopeful Future of Race in America'
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🗓️ 27 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
What does someone’s skin color have to do with who he or she is? “Not a whole lot,” Dr. Ben Carson says.
Carson, a renowned brain surgeon, experienced racism as a child and even early on in his celebrated medical career.
But Carson says he never has considered the color of someone’s skin to be a defining factor of who they are.
“As a brain surgeon, obviously, when I open somebody's head, I'm operating on a thing that makes them who they are,” Carson says. “It's not their hair or their skin that makes them who they are. It's their brain that makes them who they are. ... So obviously, I'm not going to sit around and blame somebody for something that their forefathers did to my forefather.”
Carson, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration, is the author of the new book “Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America.”
Carson joins this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast” to share a bit of his own story, as well as how America can embrace a future full of hope.
Also on today’s show, we cover these stories:
- Police answer questions about their response time in the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting.
- Senate Democrats call for a vote on gun control legislation in the wake of the shooting in Texas.
- Democrats' domestic terrorism bill fails in the Senate.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, May 27, I'm Kate Trinco, and I'm Virginia |
| 0:10.5 | Allen. |
| 0:11.5 | How can America become a nation that rejects hatred and division, and that embraces a vision |
| 0:17.8 | of unity? |
| 0:18.8 | Today, I talk with Dr. Ben Carson about his new book, Created Equal, The Painful Past, |
| 0:24.8 | Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America. |
| 0:29.2 | We discuss how his own personal story has influenced his view of America and racial |
| 0:34.6 | tensions. |
| 0:35.6 | Plus, we discuss how Americans can address some of the greatest challenges facing our |
| 0:40.0 | country today, including challenges to create a culture of life. |
| 0:44.2 | But before we get to Virginia's conversation with Dr. Carson, let's hit our top stories |
| 0:48.8 | of the day. |
| 1:00.7 | Did security act appropriately during the tragic school shooting in Yvalde, Texas? |
| 1:05.5 | The Associated Press reports that there were 40 minutes to an hour that passed between |
| 1:09.9 | when the shooter, who the Daily Signal does not name, shot at a school security officer |
| 1:15.4 | and between when the shooter was found to be shot. |
| 1:19.6 | That's according to Steve McCraw, director of the Texas Department of Public Safety. |
| 1:24.1 | Javier Carzarez, whose daughter Jacqueline was killed in the shooting, told the Associated |
| 1:28.9 | Press he arrived at the scene with police outside. |
| 1:32.6 | He suggested that he and others enter the school, because Ari's told the Associated Press. |
| 1:37.5 | Let's just rush in because the cops aren't doing anything like they are supposed to, |
| 1:42.1 | and more could have been done. |
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