On Sunday, Ben Carson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2017 to 2021, took on those on the Left who seek to impose “equity” in the United States and insist that the white majority’s bigotry and oppression of people of color should be answered with reparations for slavery, among other “equity-seeking” methods. Carson wrote, “This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.”
Writing in The Washington Post, Carson began by noting that people seeking equity had jettisoned Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “ideal of judging people by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin” and replaced it with rewarding and punishing people “because of the color of their skin.” He added, “Rather than equality of opportunity, equity would mandate equality of outcome. This goal is not only un-American — it is impossible to attain.”
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