As Ben Carson prepares to announce a run for president, it’s quite clear the media don’t like black Republicans running for the White House. On the front of Sunday’s Washington Post, reporter Robert Samuels theorized Carson can’t be a black hero now, as he bashes Barack Obama.
Their headline was “As Ben Carson bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade.” The Post won’t write “As Baltimore burns, many blacks see Obama’s legacy fade.” But Carson’s in danger of becoming – horrors – Herman Cain:
Carson’s personal accomplishments — and the work he has done to help black communities — still garner respect and pride among African Americans. Yet, while he has been a conservative for as long as he has been famous, many worry that he risks eroding his legacy in their community and transforming himself into a fringe political figure.
Some black pastors who were Carson’s biggest promoters have stopped recommending his book [Caring Hands]. Members of minority medical organizations that long boasted of their affiliations with him say he is called an “embarrassment” on private online discussion groups.
“Has he lost his sense of who he is?” said the Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent black pastor in Baltimore, where Carson lived for decades when he was director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. “He does not see he is the next Herman Cain.”
Earth to the Post: This is the same Rev. Bryant that chanted “No justice, no peace” at the Freddie Gray funeral before the rioting happened. Who should be paraded around as an “embarrassment” to the black community?
This is the same Rev. Bryant who announced on The Kelly File that both President Obama and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake committed “black-on-black crime” for referring to the looters and arsonists as “thugs.”
The Post won't write a story headlined “As Jamal Bryant bashes Obama, many blacks see a hero’s legacy fade.”
