Washington – Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is comparing slavery to immigration in the United States, a view that one slavery expert calls “inappropriate and wildly inaccurate.”
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Carson was talking about the work ethic of immigrants who came through Ellis Island during his first speech to the department on Monday. He said, “There were other immigrants who came here on the bottom of slave ships.”
A HUD spokesman declined to comment when asked about Carson’s statement.
Rana Hogarth is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She says slaves, unlike immigrants, were “a group of people making this journey against their will.”
Hogarth is calling on Carson to correct his statement.
Maybe Jews travelled to Auschwitz for a breath of Zyklon B
I’m pretty sure I’ve heard liberals compare African-descent slaves to immigrants before. They just don’t like it now because it’s coming from a conservative.
About time one grows up and understands that language is fluid. An academic may describe something like a visitor from outer space as being “fantastic”, a word which comes from the word “fantasy” meaning imagined in contrast to “real”. Hardly what the common person means when calling something “fantastic” (usually extraordinarily good or attractive). The top listed article in a Google search for “immigrate” comes up with the following:
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1. to come to a country of which one is not a native, usually for permanent residence.
2. to pass or come into a new habitat or place, as an organism.
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So, working for Pharoah was really the first Kibbutz. Who knew?