Quote:No, it's more like someone telling me that if I tried out for the Gator football team, I would probably make it, and then me writing in my autobiography that I was offered a full athletic scholarship to UF.   It straddles the line between puffing up the facts and pure lying.   

 

more bad analogies.  

 

It would be like a kid who is a five star football recruit and a five star track athlete.  Oregon ( a dominant track power) while scouting the area runs into the kid at the track awards banquet.  The head track coach tells the kid that if he ever wanted to pursue track first that they would have a place for him in eugene.  The Kid then politely says that he is going to Florida to play football.  

 

The implication that you make is that there was still some question about whether or not Carson would have qualified should he have pursued west point.  That is not the case.  He was the top ROTC officer in his area, had great academics, and oh yeh was a minority.  Any insinuation that there would have been doubt about his admission to the school given a special/presidential recommendation is backward to the point of absurdity.  

 

The second implication that you make is that Carson somehow had some blemish on his academic record that he was trying to hide.  The guy received a scholarship to yale.  That's not something that you have to hide about your past.  

 

This garbage about needing street cred for a rags to riches story is even more cow fodder.  The man came from a poor family background and became one of the most world renowned surgeons this country has ever seen and the youngest head of that specialty at Johns Hopkins one of the most prestigious institutions in the world performing surgeries that defy imagination, let alone previous scientific understanding of how the body can be repaired.  This insinuation that there was some dire need to conjure up stories in the face of what is patently remarkable is silly distopian hatred of anything that doesn't fit the PC narrative of black folks having to wait in line for the government to solve their problems for them.  It makes me sick and any time i see this kind of garbage spewed you can rest assured that there will be a swift and detailed response.

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