Ben Carson, who served as the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Trump administration, decried critical race theory and its effects on the American people. He believes that it is a “bunch of garbage” that threatens to destroy the country from inside.
“[Critical race theory is] an attempt to use race as a mechanism for redefining our society, redefining what it was based on, and how it impacts everybody,” Carson told Newsmax’s Eric Bolling during their conversation on Independence Day, Christian Headlines reported. “It wants our people to believe that your race is the most critical determinant of who you are and what happens to you in our society.”
“In other words, it’s a bunch of garbage.”
Carson argued that while America is a “magnificent place” that cannot be “destroyed” by external forces such as Russia or China, it is a house whose pillars can be destroyed for the whole structure to come falling down. He confirmed that a country “can be destroyed from within” and that it was one of Jesus’ teachings that “a house divided cannot stand.”
Carson added that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln “reiterated” the lesson that Americans “need to recognize that we, the American people are not enemies.”
