Carson: Black Lives Matter Should Include Those ‘Eradicated By Abortion’

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he probably wouldn’t have used deadly force against Michael Brown, the teenager whose fatal shooting by police Officer Darren Wilson sparked a national debate on race and the role of police.

Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson wants to conduct background checks on all Syrian migrants and war refugees before letting them into the United States, he said in an interview with NPR on Saturday. “We need to de-emphasize race and emphasize respect for each other”, he said. “I think a lot of people understood that he had done bad things, but his body didn’t have to be disrespected”, Carson told reporters after a closed-door roundtable discussion with members of the community.

Carson stated that he doesn’t like the rallying cry, “Black Lives Matter”, which emerged after Brown’s death.

“I would prefer it be taken out”, Carson said.

“I would prefer it be taken out”. We’re talking about it a lot more – more people complaining that they’re being treated unfairly.

Carson has surged in recent polls by seizing on public frustration with the political establishment. And he was little-known in politics before he criticized Obama’s health care overhaul during the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast. Carson also accused President Barack Obama of literally taking the nation backwards on the whole racial issue by simply focusing on it too much.

He offers a unique biography in Republican politics, having said he remembers seeing bodies on Detroit’s streets and thinking he wouldn’t live past age 25.

“I think its a good example of what can happen when people actually care, and when they do begin that dialogue”, he said. And that just isn’t true. “Then I think we would see some changes”.

“And as [an] overall society, we need to address the fact that we only have 330 million people”, he said.

“I’ve heard these people say, ‘Well, he’s an idiot savant, he knows how to do neurosurgery, ‘” Carson said. But my point is, we don’t have to do that. Carson’s mother often worked two and three jobs and often wouldn’t get home until after midnight, he said.