Ben Carson Targets Feminism for Police Shootings of Black Youth
Dr. Ben Carson was the keynote speaker at the Wake Up America gala Event September 5, 2014 at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona
Photographer: Laura Segall/Getty ImagesAs America grapples with the root causes of a string of shootings of African American youth across the country, numerous theories have emerged. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has blamed black-on-black crime. Attorney General Eric Holder has blamed a biased justice system. Now, prospective presidential candidate Ben Carson has joined the fray, pointing a finger at the women's liberation movement of the 1960's, as well as absentee fathers.
"Usually the father figure is where you learn how to respond to authority," Carson said in an interview last week with American Family Radio. "So now you become a teenager, you’re out there, you really have no idea how to respond to authority, you eventually run into the police or you run into somebody else in the neighborhood who also doesn’t know how to respond but is badder than you are, and you get killed or you end up in the penal system."