Cameron Jackson

3/6/17
Turner
In this official year of turmoil, its safe to say whenever one ignorant act
isnt being broadcasted by the news, a bigger act of ignorance is brewing.
Completely unseen in my world until today, Ben Carson is the biggest coon of
2017. Making the most atrocious statement, in some kind of aberrant comparison
between slaves and immigrants. His statement was There were other immigrants
who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for
less. Reading this ludicrous statement left me utterly befuddled. As a man of
color, I hope he feels some kind of remorse for speaking so out of turn. I cant
even begin to explain how many families and generations he has disgraced by
those words. Conceiving the illusion that Black slaves had any type of leisure
during this repulsive time that happens to be the fore front of American history. I
dont think, even the most racist person in the world could say something like this
mainly because it is invalid. In no way am I trying to discredit immigrants as their
struggle was strenuous as well, but on the bottom of slave ships, really. Just by
breaking down and actually dissecting the sentence. The two key words that have
two different definitions by which cannot be compared. A slave by literary
definition is a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey
them, an immigrant is a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign
country. A slave in essence includes no consent where as an immigrant can.
Carson continues on by saying they had dreams for their families and succeeding
generations as well, but the main thing he seems to miss is no one ever hindered
them physically nor verbally from achieving that. Slaves were always played at
the bottom of the social latter in every country were slavery was used, not in just
America. Were as immigrants were just regular average citizens that make a living
for themselves and actually get compensated, unlike slaves. Slaves were treated
like less than human, matter of fact slaves were treated less hand humanely. And
trans-Atlantic should be a sore topic for everyone in America strictly out of
respect. And whenever that topic is being disrespected ever Black person in
America should defend it, because contrary to popular belief that is our history
and ancestry. Out of respect for those who became subservient at the hands of a
white man because their lives depended on it. Respect for those whose families
were split up, for those whose mothers were raped and fathers beaten. So as a man
of color who shares this history, how could you go on national television and say
such a thing? Those were his great-great grandparents on those slave ships, on
that plantation, inside of that nuese. Is the price of political gain really that worth
it to speak so out of term? He is the new age subservient those are beliefs of a
completely corrupted person with no respect for humanity.