Ben Carson blasts Black Lives Matter for targeting Bernie Sanders:
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement for misdirecting its anger at “politically convenient” targets — specifically Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“The idea that disrupting and protesting Bernie Sanders speeches will change what is wrong in America is lunacy,” Carson, the lone African-American candidate in the 2016 race, wrote in an op-ed published by USA Today. “The ‘BlackLivesMatter’ movement is focused on the wrong targets, to the detriment of blacks who would like to see real change and to the benefit of its powerful white liberal funders using the attacks on Sanders for political purposes that mean nothing for the problems that face our community.”
“The notion that some lives might matter less than others is meant to enrage,” the retired neurosurgeon continued. “That anger is distracting us from what matters most. We’re right to be angry, but we have to stay smart.”
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