Ben Carson says people are manipulating race to divide Americans
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson said in an interview Thursday evening that race issues are being used to manipulate Americans.
"And you combine that with the fact that, because of our history, which is imperfect – you know slavery and Jim Crow and all of these things that have happened – it's relatively easy to convince some people, no matter how good their life is, that they're victims," Carson said. "And that somebody else has created that problem. And, at the same time, you take another segment of society – white people – and you convince them that they're guilty. They may be the nicest people in the world … but, because of the color of your skin, you are guilty and you owe. And it's a bad combination – guilt and victimhood – and it creates incredibly bad policies."
