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FLORIDA – Calls for the resignation of a Democratic National Committee staff member are increasing, after conservative superstar Dr. Ben Carson was allegedly called a “House Negro” and “Uncle Ben”, racially negative terms sometimes used against blacks who work for “the man” and against members of their own race.
The unidentified staffer was overheard saying: “Carson repeats what they want to hear. They don’t respect him. Sad he doesn’t see he’s the House Negro. ‘Uncle Ben’ is what we call him around here.”
Carson, who officially announced his presidential campaign on Sunday May 3, is part of a growing number of Afro-American conservatives prominently taking over the Republican Party, and shamefully being criticized by members of their own kind for doing so.
Current Stanford professor and former George W. Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly condemned the name calling saying, “These negative stereotypes are still very much alive and must be stopped.” So far, Rice is the only former Bush woman to offer comment.
Today’s youth (urban and otherwise) is well aware of the fabled “House Negro”, through the gritty song stylings of Philadelphia “hip-hop” musical rapper Meek Mill (Robert Rahmeek Williams) whose lyrics include: I’m a field nigga, you a house nigga/ I’m a real nigga and you’s a mouse nigga.
Oldsters are more familiar with the more classically negative stereotypes including the rice industry’s Uncle Ben character, pancake’s Aunt Jemima and breakfast cereal’s Cream of Wheat Chef.
As if this burden weren’t enough, Carson made headlines over controversial comments supporting the belief that homosexuality is a choice, using prison bitch exit poll data to back up his claim. The 63-year-old retired neurosurgeon is still backpedaling from views he expressed during an interview with CNN:
I do not want to ask myself that question at this time. If Carson wins the Republican nomination for president, he would be only the second Afro-American president in the history of the United States to enter the White House.
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