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●  Carson Has Called Slaves ‘Immigrants’ for Decades (Politico)

● Ben Carson and the Misuse of History By Jelani Cobb

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson referred to slaves as "immigrants" dreaming of a better life in a talk with department employees, according to Monday reports.

“That’s what America is about. A land of dreams and opportunity,” Carson said. “There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less.”