Its the same old theme from the media (CNN). Create a race-baiting controversy to spread division among black and white Americans. Its all politics.
For example, a black reporter asked Trump at a Press Conference why he hasn't met with the black caucus. The question has been constantly repeated on news web pages and television programming: "Why hasn't Donald Trump met with the Black Caucus?" Probably because members of the black caucus have zero interest meeting with Trump, and would be treated as left-wing traitors for giving him a photo-op. Its the same political cycle played out on television. Over and over and over and over. Its come to the point where I could write the exact, word-for-word talking points expressed on the left.
Even though its an uncomfortable concept, African American slaves taken from their homeland and forced to move to a permanent residence within the slave state (USA) can fit within the definition of immigrant. Does it trivialize the African American experience? Sure, Maybe, and No. I think its a nice way to bring African Americans into unison with their white neighbors by including them within concept of "American Immigrant". We are all immigrants. There is no reason to leave black people out of the definition of "American Immigrants", unless there is some racist or divisive intent behind their exclusion into this American bedrock.
Ben Carson was trying to spin slavery into some positive thing. and that is problematic for me. It's trying to revise history to minimize the ugliness of our country's past.
