New Ta-Nehesi Coates
column at NYT on Ben Carson. "The present darling of the right wing, Dr. Benjamin Carson, is a
distinguished neurosurgeon who went from the depths of Detroit poverty
to the heights of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. But his current
status among conservatives isn’t so much rooted in Carson’s redemptive
rise from rags to respectability, as it is in the belief that he is, in
the long winter of Obama, the one they’ve been waiting for." He then traces the search from Allen Keyes to Allen West.
I knew plenty of black people who loved their community and hated
welfare. But white conservatives were never interested in them, and they
were never as interested in Ben Carson as they are right now. When the
presidency was an unbroken string of white men, there were no calls for
him to run for the White House. And then he put on the mask.
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