Carson: #BlackLivesMatter Overlooks Abortion, Black-on-Black Crime
RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
REPORTER: "There are a lot of respectable names on the list. I don't see any of the black lives matter names on the list. Do you have any plans to meet with them? [ Inaudible ]
CARSON: "The question is do I have any plans to meet with Black Lives Matter. I'm very happy to meet with Black Lives Matter. You know, my beef with the black lives matter movement has been I think they need to add a word, and that word is "All." All black lives matter, including the ones that are eradicated by abortions, including the ones that are eradicated on the streets every day by violence. And we need to be looking at all of the factors that have kept the black community in a very dependant position for decades. And there is a lot of progress that could be made. You know, there's a trillion dollars of assets in the black community. There's only about ten countries in the world that have a trillion-dollar annual budget. It's an enormous amount of resources. We need to be talking about how you turn those resources over in your own community to create even more and reach back and pull other people up. We need to be talking about the education system, because education is the great divide. And I don't care where a person comes from. They get a good education, they write their own ticket. Those sort of things we need to be talking about. We need to be talking about the drugs and the drug dealers and the deleterious effect that they have on the community. We need to be talking about out-of-wedlock births and what that does to a woman's educational possibilities and what it does to that child, makes them four times more likely to grow up in poverty, to end up on welfare or in the penal system. Until we begin to address these issues, we're not going to get anywhere. And as an overall society, we need to address the fact that we only have 330 million people. China has over a billion. India has over and we have to compete with them on a global scale. We can't afford to be losing our people."
