July 13, 2021 • 8 mins
Ben Carson Says Welfare Hurt Black Families More Than Slavery
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The breakfast club. Bitches, Please tell me why was I
your donkey every day? All right, donkey today from Monday,
July twelve, goes the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Ben Carson. See Yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference,
Ben Carson suggested that the government coming along and taking
care of all black people's needs hurt black communities more
(00:22):
than slavery. Did I repeat? Ben Carson said, the government
coming along and taking care of all black people's needs
hurt black communities more than slavery. Did MoMA? Uncle Ben
been drinking again. Let's go to flox Nation for the report. Please. Well,
when you look at what the black community has been through, uh,
come all the way back to slavery, it was the family,
(00:46):
the strong family units and the faith and God. They
got people through that. They got people through Jim Crow,
through severe segregation, through all the difficulties. But what really
had a negative impact was when the government came along
(01:08):
and said, there there, you poor little thing, I'm gonna
take care of all your needs and started implementing policies
that were destructive to family formation. Those are the things
that have hurt the black community the most. Lord have mercy,
who put the mayonnaise in and intelligent. Damn it. Dr Ben,
When the hell did America ever take care of the
needs of black people? I missed that part. When did
(01:30):
that happen? That's a whole other conversation. Let's stick to
the matter at hand now. You know, we was on
vacation last week. I was at home in the low
Country A four three all day dropping a clue bound
to the A fort three. I was with my man
Damon Fordham one day. He's the author of the book's
True Stories of Black South Carolina and Voices of Black
South Carolina, both available on Amazon right now. And I'm
(01:50):
bringing this up because we were downtown Charleston and Damon was,
you know, taking us on the tour because I had
some folks from out of town with me and they
wanted to see Charleston. Right. If you know anything about
downtown Charleston, then you know actions Wolf where they are
building the International African American Museum as a Wolf with
Some researchers have estimated that forty percent of enslaved Africans
in the US came right through that. Okay, yes, researchers
(02:11):
say it was the first destination for an estimated a
hundred thousand enslave Africans, So downtown Charleston, Charleston in general
know the thing are too, are a hundred thousand about slavery.
So yes, there's a lot in regard to slavery that's
fresh on my mind. And I don't claim to be
uh the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, nor
am I a stronger avenger. But I have enough damn
(02:32):
sense to know that slavery was not good for black
families in America. Okay, it's really laughable. I just hear
things like this and say to myself, why do people
always try to find a bright side the slavery? What's
the point? Okay? Family, you say, Dr Ben Carson? Family,
Dr Ben Carson, do you know that slave labor for
(02:53):
a slave owner took precedence over an enslaved person's personal needs,
including family? Enslave people who worked all day, early in
the morning until late at night. A father most times
lived several miles away on a whole other plantation than
his than his family, and probably only got to see
his family a couple of times a week, and that
is only if he was close enough to see his family. Yes,
(03:14):
there were times when some enslaved people lived in nuclear
families with the mother, father, and children. They all had
the same owner, but a lot of families the family
members at different owners. Okay. Some large plantations had the
children under the KiB one enslaved woman who had to
feed and watch over them all day while their parents worked.
If you think that's what strong family structure is, Dr Ben,
(03:35):
then you need to figure out a way to do
brain surgery on yourself. Okay, because I refused to believe
a well read educated man like yourself has haven't read
stories about, you know, babies being ripped from the arms
of mothers at slave auctions. Dr Ben, listen, you don't
even have to read. There's an exhibit at the Smithsonian
Museum of uh African American History and Culture which documents
(03:55):
the tragic u s history of enslaved children being separated
from their enslave parents. Okay, and slave mothers and fathers
lived with the constant fear that they are their children
might be sold away. Okay. Susan Hamilton's, who witness the
slave auctions, said in the nineteen thirty eight interview that
people were always dying from a broken heart because night
and day you could hear men and women streaming because
(04:16):
mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers were being taken
without warning. I remember when the African American Research Collaborative
tweeted out official US policy until eighteen sixty five, ripped
Black children from their parents from eighteen seventy to nineteen seventy,
ripped Native American children from their parents, now ripped children
of immigrants and refugees from their parents. Hashtag this is America?
(04:38):
Hashtag where the children? Yeo, how about this? Dr Bench
Just google the effects of American slavery on African American families.
There's so many different videos you can watch. There's a
great video featuring Dr Sydney Ball and Mr Marlon Do.
We have some of Dr Sydney Ball talking about the
impacts of slavery on the black family. Let's listen. The
(05:00):
ways that families were separated during slavery was, you know,
to sell off the family in pieces um. Basically, when
you have a young boy who is ten eleven, twelve
UM and those leaner um work years, I guess you
can say, you know, the slave owner feels like he
can get a good ten, fifteen, twenty years out of him.
(05:21):
That is prime money UM, as opposed to an order
woman who's not capable of being in the fields are
doing a lot of the herd labor. UM. So the
women may stay behind, but the men may be sold off,
or the women may be sold off there seemed deemed
as useless UM, and the men stay behind. Another way
would be within the plantation, you had slaves that were
(05:44):
in the field same family, and other family members were
in what was called the big house. UM. And this
started division not only among families but within the African
American race. UM. Those that were in the big house
were usually African Americ kinds of lighter complexion and UM.
If you have families that you only see each other
(06:06):
in a late evening or maybe only once a week
on Sundays, UM, that's the way to separate the family
when they're legitimately on the same property. That don't sound
like strong family structure to me. When a father had
a child, when he fathered a child, when the male
fallowed a child, he had no authority over that job,
(06:27):
only the authority that the slave master allowed that. So
so so black folk could not deal with the humiliation,
so they chose other ways in which to deal with it.
So they ignored it, so the males became distant from
the obligation of his family. That that has had a
devastating effect on us because those things were passed down,
(06:49):
those things were where we're we're part of our traditional
experience here in America. This is why I don't care
if his critical race theory, the sixteen nineteen project, whatever,
The history of black people in this country have to
be taught, and it has to be taught honestly, because
you have guys like Dr Ben Carson out here attempting
to revise history. And I don't understand. Why tell the
(07:10):
true shame the white devil. Stop trying to make America
something it's not. We can't hear what we don't reveal.
We keep trying to come up with solutions for America's sins,
but we won't ever get there if we don't acknowledge
the problems. Please let me give Dr Ben Carson the
biggest he huh he ha, he hah. You're stupid, mother,
(07:31):
Are you dumb? All right? Just okay, it's okay, right,
we'll figure it out. Got Red is our new boarder
dramas left last two weeks ago. So Red is our
new board op. And he got a little red on
the draw, but he shot still still. It's a little inside.
(07:53):
We got shot at a little bit. We get together together,
shot back dog. Here to day is brought to you
by the law office of Michael s lam and Saft.
Don't be a donkey. Dive pound to fifty on your
cell and say the bull. If you've been hurting a
construction accident, that's pound two five old from your cell
and say the bull.
The breakfast club. Bitches, Please tell me why was I
your donkey every day? All right, donkey today from Monday,
July twelve, goes the former Housing and Urban Development Secretary
Ben Carson. See Yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Conference,
Ben Carson suggested that the government coming along and taking
care of all black people's needs hurt black communities more
(00:22):
than slavery. Did I repeat? Ben Carson said, the government
coming along and taking care of all black people's needs
hurt black communities more than slavery. Did MoMA? Uncle Ben
been drinking again. Let's go to flox Nation for the report. Please. Well,
when you look at what the black community has been through, uh,
come all the way back to slavery, it was the family,
(00:46):
the strong family units and the faith and God. They
got people through that. They got people through Jim Crow,
through severe segregation, through all the difficulties. But what really
had a negative impact was when the government came along
(01:08):
and said, there there, you poor little thing, I'm gonna
take care of all your needs and started implementing policies
that were destructive to family formation. Those are the things
that have hurt the black community the most. Lord have mercy,
who put the mayonnaise in and intelligent. Damn it. Dr Ben,
When the hell did America ever take care of the
needs of black people? I missed that part. When did
(01:30):
that happen? That's a whole other conversation. Let's stick to
the matter at hand now. You know, we was on
vacation last week. I was at home in the low
Country A four three all day dropping a clue bound
to the A fort three. I was with my man
Damon Fordham one day. He's the author of the book's
True Stories of Black South Carolina and Voices of Black
South Carolina, both available on Amazon right now. And I'm
(01:50):
bringing this up because we were downtown Charleston and Damon was,
you know, taking us on the tour because I had
some folks from out of town with me and they
wanted to see Charleston. Right. If you know anything about
downtown Charleston, then you know actions Wolf where they are
building the International African American Museum as a Wolf with
Some researchers have estimated that forty percent of enslaved Africans
in the US came right through that. Okay, yes, researchers
(02:11):
say it was the first destination for an estimated a
hundred thousand enslave Africans, So downtown Charleston, Charleston in general
know the thing are too, are a hundred thousand about slavery.
So yes, there's a lot in regard to slavery that's
fresh on my mind. And I don't claim to be
uh the highest grade of weed in the dispensary, nor
am I a stronger avenger. But I have enough damn
(02:32):
sense to know that slavery was not good for black
families in America. Okay, it's really laughable. I just hear
things like this and say to myself, why do people
always try to find a bright side the slavery? What's
the point? Okay? Family, you say, Dr Ben Carson? Family,
Dr Ben Carson, do you know that slave labor for
(02:53):
a slave owner took precedence over an enslaved person's personal needs,
including family? Enslave people who worked all day, early in
the morning until late at night. A father most times
lived several miles away on a whole other plantation than
his than his family, and probably only got to see
his family a couple of times a week, and that
is only if he was close enough to see his family. Yes,
(03:14):
there were times when some enslaved people lived in nuclear
families with the mother, father, and children. They all had
the same owner, but a lot of families the family
members at different owners. Okay. Some large plantations had the
children under the KiB one enslaved woman who had to
feed and watch over them all day while their parents worked.
If you think that's what strong family structure is, Dr Ben,
(03:35):
then you need to figure out a way to do
brain surgery on yourself. Okay, because I refused to believe
a well read educated man like yourself has haven't read
stories about, you know, babies being ripped from the arms
of mothers at slave auctions. Dr Ben, listen, you don't
even have to read. There's an exhibit at the Smithsonian
Museum of uh African American History and Culture which documents
(03:55):
the tragic u s history of enslaved children being separated
from their enslave parents. Okay, and slave mothers and fathers
lived with the constant fear that they are their children
might be sold away. Okay. Susan Hamilton's, who witness the
slave auctions, said in the nineteen thirty eight interview that
people were always dying from a broken heart because night
and day you could hear men and women streaming because
(04:16):
mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers were being taken
without warning. I remember when the African American Research Collaborative
tweeted out official US policy until eighteen sixty five, ripped
Black children from their parents from eighteen seventy to nineteen seventy,
ripped Native American children from their parents, now ripped children
of immigrants and refugees from their parents. Hashtag this is America?
(04:38):
Hashtag where the children? Yeo, how about this? Dr Bench
Just google the effects of American slavery on African American families.
There's so many different videos you can watch. There's a
great video featuring Dr Sydney Ball and Mr Marlon Do.
We have some of Dr Sydney Ball talking about the
impacts of slavery on the black family. Let's listen. The
(05:00):
ways that families were separated during slavery was, you know,
to sell off the family in pieces um. Basically, when
you have a young boy who is ten eleven, twelve
UM and those leaner um work years, I guess you
can say, you know, the slave owner feels like he
can get a good ten, fifteen, twenty years out of him.
(05:21):
That is prime money UM, as opposed to an order
woman who's not capable of being in the fields are
doing a lot of the herd labor. UM. So the
women may stay behind, but the men may be sold off,
or the women may be sold off there seemed deemed
as useless UM, and the men stay behind. Another way
would be within the plantation, you had slaves that were
(05:44):
in the field same family, and other family members were
in what was called the big house. UM. And this
started division not only among families but within the African
American race. UM. Those that were in the big house
were usually African Americ kinds of lighter complexion and UM.
If you have families that you only see each other
(06:06):
in a late evening or maybe only once a week
on Sundays, UM, that's the way to separate the family
when they're legitimately on the same property. That don't sound
like strong family structure to me. When a father had
a child, when he fathered a child, when the male
fallowed a child, he had no authority over that job,
(06:27):
only the authority that the slave master allowed that. So
so so black folk could not deal with the humiliation,
so they chose other ways in which to deal with it.
So they ignored it, so the males became distant from
the obligation of his family. That that has had a
devastating effect on us because those things were passed down,
(06:49):
those things were where we're we're part of our traditional
experience here in America. This is why I don't care
if his critical race theory, the sixteen nineteen project, whatever,
The history of black people in this country have to
be taught, and it has to be taught honestly, because
you have guys like Dr Ben Carson out here attempting
to revise history. And I don't understand. Why tell the
(07:10):
true shame the white devil. Stop trying to make America
something it's not. We can't hear what we don't reveal.
We keep trying to come up with solutions for America's sins,
but we won't ever get there if we don't acknowledge
the problems. Please let me give Dr Ben Carson the
biggest he huh he ha, he hah. You're stupid, mother,
(07:31):
Are you dumb? All right? Just okay, it's okay, right,
we'll figure it out. Got Red is our new boarder
dramas left last two weeks ago. So Red is our
new board op. And he got a little red on
the draw, but he shot still still. It's a little inside.
(07:53):
We got shot at a little bit. We get together together,
shot back dog. Here to day is brought to you
by the law office of Michael s lam and Saft.
Don't be a donkey. Dive pound to fifty on your
cell and say the bull. If you've been hurting a
construction accident, that's pound two five old from your cell
and say the bull.
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