Marc Lamont Hill, a CNN commentator and Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College, on Sunday’s (5 PM EST hour) CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow:
“I mean, Ben Carson -- the greatest lie in American history is the myth of the self-made person. Nobody makes themselves. We’re all shaped by communities, by people who struggled and sacrificed for us, by governments that offer safety nets. And what Ben Carson is able to do essentially is reject all that stuff and say that I was saved....Ben Carson is able to say, ‘I was saved by Jesus and hard work.’ That allows him to reject a safety net. That allows him to push back against the expansion of a welfare state. That allows him to resist tax cuts for the middle class and poor and tax hikes for the wealthy. It allows him to create an entire narrative and when people say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, why are you doing this?’ Ben Carson can say, ‘Hey, because I did it myself,’ and it makes white voters feel comfortable...”
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