January 12, 2017, - 3:22 pm
Will Ben Carson Bring Nation of Islam, Sharpton to HUD? Questions Nobody’s Asking @ Confirmation Hrg
Ben Carson’s confirmation hearings for Secretary of Housing and Urban Development began this morning and are well under way. Sadly, nobody’s asking Dr. Carson about his very troubling ties to the Nation of Islam and whether he will bring his Farrakhan follower friends to HUD. It wouldn’t be the first time the Nation of Islam was involved in running America’s housing projects.
I’ve been following Dr. Carson’s Senate confirmation hearings, and I’m disturbed by the number of stupid questions and the lack of a very important one: “Dr. Carson, will you agree to keep the bigoted, racist Nation of Islam out of your HUD Department?” Instead, Elizabeth Mazola Margarine Fauxcahontas Warren asked Carson if he will agree not to steer any HUD housing to Trump developments (a hilarious question, since the Trump empire got out of subsidized, low-income housing decades ago, and there ain’t gonna be any low-income units in Trump Tower, I promise).
Yes, Ben Carson has ties to Louis Farrakhan a/k/a Louis X a/k/a Louis Eugene Wolcott and his group of Black supremacists known as the Nation of Islam (NOI). Carson’s longtime adviser, Armstrong Williams, is a vehement advocate of NOI and so tight with Farrakhan that he broadcast his radio show live from the 20th anniversary celebration of the Million Man March, waxing poetically about what great memories he had at the first Million Man hate-fest, where Jews and Whites were repeatedly denounced in non-stop hate speech. In October 2015, while advising Carson and his campaign, Williams also wrote op-ed pieces in The Washington Times and The Hill, advocating a return to the days when the Nation of Islams “security force,” the Fruit of Islam “guarded” the housing projects in Chicago and other major cities. Williams even called the anti-Semitic, anti-White Nation of Islam “Chicago’s savior.”
Despite the outcry over Williams’ comments, Carson refused to fire him. He stood by Williams and refused to disavow the NOI. Instead, Barry Bennett, who is Jewish and was running Carson’s campaign at the time, eventually resigned along with other top campaign staffers, saying Williams’ interference in the campaign and Carson’s strong allegiance to Williams got in the way of the campaign. Bennett went on to advise Donald Trump’s Presidential campaign. (Williams’ acceptance of $240,000 under the table from the George W. Bush administration in a pay-to-play scandal, pimping “No Child Left Behind,” apparently wasn’t enough for Carson to question Williams’ judgment and ethics.)
Just so you know, the Fruit of Islam used to have a contract with HUD to provide security and other “services” to the Housing projects. The Nation of Islam got paid millions of federal tax dollars for this. And it wasn’t the Democrats who did this. It was the Republicans. In fact, it was the late Jack Kemp–whom all the RINOs and the Wall Street Journal have been lauding for the past few years as a “model Republican” to win elections–who put the Nation of Islam on the federal dime. An incredulous Tim Russert–then the host of NBC’s “Meet the Press” and still a respectable liberal who asked tough questions even of liberals–nearly fell out of his seat when Kemp, Bush’s HUD Secretary defended and praised the Nation of Islam and refused to ditch the security deal with the group. Ironically, it took the Clinton Administration to cancel the deal in 1995 and fire the Nation of Islam because of its Jew-hatred.
Will Ben Carson bring Farrakkhan and Friends back to HUD and rehire them to provide security for our nation’s housing projects, as Williams advocated just over a year ago? Williams is still advising Carson, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Carson brings him on board at HUD to be his Chief of Staff, there. Also troubling is that Ben Carson is tight with Weird Al Sharpton and spoke at his National Action Network shakedown group confab (as did Sean Hannity, another phony).
That’s what Senators should have asked Ben Carson about, today. But they didn’t. And they won’t. Because in our Black-Lives-Matter world, even with Trump as the President, Black racists aren’t just tolerated. They get millions in federal money. From Republicans.
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If I were a U.S. Senator sitting on the panel questioning Ben Carson today, here’s what I would have asked:
* Dr. Carson, your top adviser, Armstrong Williams, has called for a return to the Fruit of Islam providing services for HUD. The Fruit of Islam is an arm of the racist hate-group, the Nation of Islam. Will you commit to banning the Nation of Islam and all of its affiliates from getting money and/or contracts with HUD?
* Dr. Carson, your top adviser, Armstrong Williams, praised the Million Man March, a hate-fest, where anti-Semitism and anti-White hate dominated the official speeches. Will you agree that Mr. Williams’ endorsement of hate, racism, and bigotry has no place in HUD and will you agree to end your professional association with him?
* Dr. Carson, you are friendly with Al Sharpton–the instigator of the Freddy’s Fashion Mart arson and murders and the inciter of the Yankel Rosenbaum murder. How can you be okay with this kind of murderous hate? Will you agree to cut off ties with him or will Sharpton be a welcome guest at your HUD Department? Willl Tawana Brawley come visit, too?
Again, these are the questions that needed to be asked of Ben Carson. But they weren’t. And they won’t be.
And Ben Carson will probably bring Armstrong Williams and his bow-tied Nation of Islam buddies to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Is this draining the swamp? Or having the swamp drain us?
This Black guy, “Thetruthdamit,” speaks truth to power about Ben Carson’s disturbing ties. I’d rather have him on the Carson confirmation panel than all of the Senators combined.
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That’s very disturbing.
Hillel on January 12, 2017 at 4:18 pm