![]() Read more by Alex O'Keefe on his website. Even if his book is full of half-truths, well, my mom only half-read it anyways. Maybe I didn't read the whole book or something." The authors tone is full of satisfaction when he recaps the story of one of the most significant operations he ever performed. "Huh." My mom sat on this info for a second. I showed the clip to my mom, saying, "His mom didn't take away the TV." He was preaching his mother's path, "She said we would be able to watch two or three pre-selected TV programs a week." Recently, I revisited a Carson VHS video, in which he speaks to a class of black students-wearing a lab coat for whatever reason. If I succeed in life it will just validate all the motivational Post-It notes and index cards my mother attached to every blank surface in the house. At some point, while I wasn't looking, I became Carson's prodigal son. had my acceptance at Yale to enter in the fall of 1969, but they offered me a 90 percent academic scholarship. "Alex my dear son," my mother tells me, "YOU are such a kind and modest person. This gets at the heart of Carson's appeal-when I look into his tiny, sleepy, drooling eyes, I still see compassion towards individuals, marred by fearful spite towards whole swaths of society he fails to understand. But she also left "Do I have HIV?" pamphlets in our bathroom for my gay brother to find, and would call the cops to step in as emergency father figures when she caught me watching violent or sexual TV programs. She still calls me just to read inspirational Chipotle cups over the phone. She still picks up homeless people and helps them get wherever it is they're going. So much of my childhood was spent picking up foster kids after school, driving them to every corner of Florida. She is so filled with sincerity, love and compassion towards the world. His claim to fame happened in 1987 when he, along with a team of doctors. My mother is a good person-her wicked flurries of rage towards general groups of people don't come close to blemishing that truth. She told me about a book titled, Gifted Hands, by Dr. When he accepted the NAACP's highest honor for achievement, Carson chastised its leaders, saying, "You're not doing enough. If Jesus died for sins of mankind, Ben Carson is a martyr for white guilt. Compared to Donald Trump is a 1-800-number-yelling, get-rich-quick-schemer offering the American Dream from a yacht with his face on it, Carson's calm, collected crazy comes off like Marshall Applewhite of Heaven's Gate. His campaign raised $10 million in October alone. ![]() The back cover summary is rousing: "This book is for you if you have no dreams at all." Prescribing self-help for the free world has become The Ben Carson Cottage Industry. Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential For Success, was published a few years later. ![]()
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