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Ben Carson: Obama was ‘raised white’
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Feb 23, 2016 11:38am |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | Glenn Thrush |
| News Date | Tuesday, February 23, 2016 10:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ben Carson is the only person in the 2016 presidential field who is vying to become the country’s second African-American president.
If truth be told, however, he’s not entirely sure he wouldn’t actually be the first.
Carson, speaking during a half-hour sit-down with POLITICO’s “Off Message” podcast as he waited for the results of Saturday’s South Carolina primary (he finished sixth out of six), laid out his views on racism – and his belief that his experience as poor black kid in 1960s Detroit represents the real experience of his people in way that Barack Obama could never understand.
“He’s an ‘African’ American. He was, you know, raised white,” said the world-renowned neurosurgeon |
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