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Created Equal

The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America

by Ben Carson
Candy Carson
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Bestselling author and conservative icon Dr. Ben Carson lays out a hopeful and inspiring road map for how America can come together.
External physical characteristics that are genetically encoded are things over which no individual has control. But rather than appreciating the gift of diversity, some have chosen to use it to drive wedges between groups of people. Some of these external characteristics are associated with the past moral failing of slavery. Though slavery in America formally ended in the 1860s, the vestiges of that evil institution are still with us today, and those vestiges often inflict guilt on some and facilitate feelings of victimhood in others.
In Created Equal, Dr. Carson uses his own personal experiences as a member of a racial minority, along with the writings and experiences of others from multiple backgrounds and demographics, to analyze the current state of race relations in America. Instead of using race as an excuse to remake America into something completely antithetical to the Constitution, Dr. Carson suggests ways to enhance and bring great success to our nation and all multiethnic societies by magnifying America's incredible strengths instead of her historical weaknesses.

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  • Release date

    May 17, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781668606377
      • File size: 197543 KB
      • Duration: 06:51:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Kirkus

      The former presidential candidate shares his views on race and racism. Can't we all just get along? So Carson, retired surgeon and GOP darling, asks and answers in the affirmative. "Yes, racism still exists," he writes, "but so does liberty and justice for all." After sounding his one-love paean to American ideals, the author airs familiar complaints about wokeness, Black Lives Matter, and especially critical race theory, which, he argues, is "one of the ideological pillars of the groups wanting to fundamentally change America." Carson categorically rejects the claims of critical race theory that America, founded on the backs of enslaved people, remains a racist society. "Since race is genetically determined, it is difficult to understand their claim that it is only a social construct," Carson adds, though he later seems to allow the social-scientific and biological construct that there's just one human race made diverse by different features. Although he's experienced racism, notably from mean children in grade school and White college classmates who couldn't comprehend that a Black student might be more intellectually accomplished than they, Carson explains it away--in addition to the murder of George Floyd, disparities in non-White income, and "that feeling of white entitlement that occurred so long ago in our nation"--as if it no longer exists. Carson's narrative eventually resolves the bring-back-morality trope. Since he advocates home schooling above public education on account of critical race theory and other supposed ills, at least he doesn't hit too hard on prayer in schools. Which isn't to say that it's absent, for, as the author proclaims, "Christianity encourages excellence and self-reliance." For what it's worth, though he would seem to give his former boss credit for doing more for Black people than any president since Lincoln, he mentions Trump by name only three times in passing. Predictably unsatisfying given the blame-the-liberals drumbeat.

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