Donna Edwards schools Ben Carson for ignoring ‘systemic problems’ about race | The Raw Story

Donna Edwards schools Ben Carson for ignoring ‘systemic problems’ about race | The Raw Story
John Butts@JBMedia - Reports:
Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MA) explained to retired conservative neurosurgeon Ben Carson on Sunday that he was making a mistake by refusing to talk about race because there are “deep systemic problems that really impact African-Americans.”
Fox News Sunday invited Carson — who has been talked about as a possible 2016 Republican presidential candidate — to respond to President Barack Obama’s surprise remarks on Friday about how his experience as a black man related to the Trayvon Martin case.
“We have a tendency to overemphasize the superficial,” Carson told Fox News host Chris Wallace. “You know, I was asked once by an NPR reporter why I don’t talk about race that often. And I said it’s because I’m a neurosurgeon. And she looked at me quite quizzically. And I said, ‘You see, when I take someone to the operating room and I peel down the scalp and take off the bone flap and open the dura, I’m operating on the thing that makes the perhttp://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/21/donna-edwards-schools-ben-carson-ignoring-systemic-problems-about-race/son who they are.’ It’s not the covering that makes them who they are.”