Tag: Dr. Ben Carson

im·mi·grant /ˈiməɡrənt/ noun a person who comes to live permanently in a foreign country. Imagine for a moment you are taken away from the land of your birth, and all that you love, thrown in the bottom of a ship packed tight with other bodies, and forced to work the rest of your life away in another land.  Are you an immigrant? What if I told you the scene I described was the lot of an Irish or Scottish political prisoner forcibly relocated to North America?  Are they immigrants? Ben Carson’s recent comments referring to slaves as immigrants started a firestorm on social media because most people didn’t take the time to listen to what he said.  He is not wrong that African Americans slaves were immigrants to America.   EVERYONE’S ancestors came to this continent from somewhere else.  Even Native American’s ancestors came across the Bering Sea.  At no time did Dr. Carson indicate slaves were willing immigrants.  He was trying to convey how far people...