Ben Carson
The US housing department, helmed by the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, has proposed a new mission statement in which the pledge to build “inclusive” communities “free from discrimination” is removed. (emphasis added)
The proposal comes just two weeks after the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services changed its mission statement to eliminate a passage that described the US as “a nation of immigrants”.
A 5 March internal memo, obtained by the Huffington Post, contained a draft of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (Hud) new, shortened mission statement, which emphasizes self-sufficiency. The author described it as “an effort to align Hud’s mission with the secretary’s priorities and that of the administration”.
Carson has long touted his own rise from poverty in Detroit and Boston to an Ivy League education and pioneering surgical advances. Yet while he advocates a bootstraps philosophy and has defended proposed budget cuts to his own department, the Guardian recently revealed that a $31,000 dining set had been ordered for […]
Actually if you look at the way “we” acquired this land, we are all immigrants because only the original Native Americans, (called Indians) by the invaders, are the real Americans. That’s not even mentioning the land stolen from Mexico at the beginning of “this” America, which Trump wants to wall off now. It is all disgusting to me. Doesn’t anyone know are history?????? We white people are all immigrants.
Sorry for the typo, I meant OUR HISTORY, not are history.
Could it be that the American white society, all of whom are immigrants stock, have been brainwashed for years. Education being minimal at best has not left room in its dictate to address the fact that only our indigenous people are indeed Americans.