Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson put his foot in his mouth regarding slavery. He said, “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.” Many pundits are asserting that Carson basically said that slaves came to this country willingly, as immigrants. As the only black person in Trump’s cabinet, he must appear above reproach on racial issues, and this wasn’t it.
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