Playing the Race Card on Behalf of Dr. Carson

Having recently discovered that presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is, in fact, black, I have started to look at him in a very different light.

And in Saturday's debate, I saw something I did not like in the way he was treated, and I'm really not happy about it.

The presidential debate Saturday night produced plenty of its own conflicts, but there was one thing that seemingly none of the post-debate analysis and spin commentators felt moved to bring up.

We know going in that news networks have their biases, and ABC, which brought the debate to the country, is a left-leaning organization with an agenda.  Martha Raddatz, the co-moderator, is a left-leaning journalist with a spotty track record of equanimity in previous debates.  She, too, has an agenda.

One thing that agenda demands is that black Americans slavishly follow leftist candidates, even against their own self-interest and despite Democrats' atrocious track record of improving their lives.  As long as black voters cast ballots in lock-step with the Democrat way, nothing can, in the left's view, be allowed to change.

Ben Carson blatantly rejects that notion.  As a black conservative, he smashes the stereotype the Democrats have foisted on his race, for decades and decades, to subjugate them and seize their important votes.  Therefore, he must be ignored, Democrats believe, and in some manner, desperately silenced.

And silenced he was, Saturday night.

I write here to accuse ABC, the moderators of the debate, and George Stephanopoulos, the former Clinton senior staffer and Hillary donor who is somehow allowed to be passed off as a "journalist" at ABC and to comment between segments, of racial bias, racial profiling and race-based suppression of views.

If you doubt me, go back, watch the recorded debate, and ask yourself where the questions for Ben Carson were.  ABC, I believe intentionally marginalized Dr. Carson by minimizing the questions to him, allowing other candidates far more time on the questions of substance (the only question asked of Dr. Carson for what seemed like an hour was a non-policy question about the Cruz campaign), and letting other candidates speak up when they were not asked questions.

Dr.Carson himself had to point this out, in response to one rare question reminding the moderators that he was "not just a pretty face on the stage."

I contend that ABC's lack of questions for Dr. Carson was an intentional, pre-planned effort to provide as few seconds as possible wherein Ben Carson, a black conservative in stark opposition to their narrative, actually presented conservative views from the mind of a black American.  And I demand that ABC be held responsible and taken to task.

Ben Carson is a brilliant and accomplished man.  He has done what the Democrat left wants -- and needs -- black Americans not to do, that is, to think independently and decide for themselves, one by one, what works and what does not.  Were they to do so, far more would, as has Dr. Carson, reject the notion that the Democrats in government have their back.

ABC should be ashamed and apologetic.  The next network hosting a debate, whichever one it may be, needs to accommodate the good doctor and ensure that he is granted at least as much air time to answer substantive questions as any other candidate.  And they should prominently note why they are doing that.

We need far more televised minutes of Ben Carson speaking to the important issues of our day.

Copyright 2016 by Robert Sutton
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