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Ben Carson: ‘A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand’ Former HUD secretary on the impact of education on his life and the rise of critical race theory
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his country is about liberty,” says Dr. Ben Carson. “Because people wanted to be able to live freely without the government’s foot on their neck, they came here.” In a recent episode of EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek spoke with Carson, a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the founder of American Cornerstone Institute, a nonprofit organization promoting conservative solutions based on the principles of “faith, liberty, community, and life.” JAN JEKIELEK: Dr. Ben
Carson, it’s a pleasure to have you back on American 52 I N S I G H T January 21–27, 2022
Thought Leaders, and that I get to talk to you about where you came from. DR . BEN CARSON: There
are those who don’t particularly like my story, because it doesn’t cater to the idea of victimhood. My parents got divorced early on. We had to move from the home in Detroit that I really loved. One of my mother’s sisters in Boston took us in. It was a typical tenement that you see on TV, with rats and roaches and gangs and sirens and murders and broken glass all over the place, but it was a roof over our head. That couple of years gave my mother time to get on her feet, and we moved back to Detroit. I was a horrendous student. But my mother was always encouraging me. She worked as a domestic, and
Dr. Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, in Virginia on Dec. 7, 2021.
