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Allen West’s Candid Remarks on Dr. Carson: He Broke the Unwritten Rule That Black Men Can’t Criticize Obama

Feb. 12, 2013 7:46am Jonathon M. Seidl

Ever since Blaze readers sent Dr. Ben Carson’s prayer breakfast speech into the viral category, plenty of other people have noticed and are weighing in. On Monday, it was former Rep. Allen West’s turn, and he didn’t hold back.

Appearing on Fox News with Greta Van Susteren, West defended Carson against critics who might say that the speech — which was critical of the national debt, among other things, in front of the president — was inappropriate. His main point? Carson’s only sin was breaking an unwritten rule for black men.

“Now, I think what has everyone upset is that he violated the unwritten rule of being an African-American male and he criticized the policies of President Obama, which I can somewhat understand, having been on the other side of a lot of attacks, as well,” West explained.

He continued:

But if you go back to September of 2012, there was the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver, who gave an incredible statement saying that if anyone else were in the White House other than President Obama, that they would be marching on the White House, and that the President Obama knows that he is given a deference that would not be given to a white president.

And we were talking about the incredible 14 percent unemployment rate in the black community. And I think that we cannot continue to go on believing that all we can do is ask the president what his favorite color is and continue to have these softball interviews. We have to start talking about the policies that are failing this country, and I think Dr. Carson — hat tip to him for having that platform, being able to challenge those policies.

He went on to decry the “free pass” Obama has been given by so many, especially in the media.

You can watch the interview below:

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SamIamTwo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:47am
As long as man speaks the truth there is no color.

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- tnman65
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:02am
  Amen. You nailed it.
  
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- Arc
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:09am
  Hear Hear !!!
  
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- Faith1029
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:48am
  SAM: wow….this should be a bumper sticker!
  
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- garbagecanlogic
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:45pm
  When I look at Allen West, I do not see color, I see a decorated, honest, sincere and caring American.
  
  Praise Be To Obama. Psalm 109:8
  
  The U.N. Out Of The U.S.
  The U.S. Out Of The U.N.
  
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- AbrahamsSheepdog
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 2:51pm
  Go Dr. Carson! Run with Huckabee!!!
  King video must be very worried.
  Hardworking smart Vs. Lazy prince of clowns. Finally now that’s worth watching
  
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Advection
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:46am
If blacks cannot be criticized, then they can’t be considered adults.

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Wildblue3
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:43am
@Mary, His comments were insightful and correct. They were also against Obama which I think is the only reason you criticize.

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Inform
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:41am
His legion of idiots will vote for him regardless of their unemployment rate.

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willingtoupe
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:40am
Because they have lost the last one and they will lose the next one in 2014 and 2016.

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SacredHonor1776
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:35am
As he points out;

“In April of 1968, on the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a major riot broke out at my high school in inner-city Detroit. Most of the black students were so outraged that they were trying to physically harm anyone who was white. Some very serious beatings took place, and I saw many of my white friends being harassed. The student population of the school was about 70 percent black, so the white students did not have much of a chance. At the time, I held a job as the biology laboratory assistant setting up experiments for the other students. The department even trusted me with a key to the science classrooms and the greenhouse. So during the riot, I used that key to open the greenhouse and hide several white students during the melee. By that time in my life, I understood the extent of racism in America, but I also was beginning to have hope for the future. Having lived and studied among both black and white cultures, I knew that there are good white and black people and there are bad white and black people. It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside. And as I better understood human nature, I felt more emboldened to do things differently than everybody else and to chart my own course for a successful life.”-Dr. Ben Carson in America the Beautiful.

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perry1980
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:33am
The Dems will say that another one escaped their plantation.
The Dems are the ones Brainwashing and enslaving the bl@cks now.

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SacredHonor1776
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:30am
Why do you make most of your posts about race?

Also Carson is an independent, and a moderate. He’s neither liberal nor conservative. He has never belonged to any ‘parties’. He warns in his writings that extremism on both ends could lead to tyranny… For there to be proper dialogue, and successful government both right wings and left wings need to exist.

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mopman64
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:27am
@MARYLEFT, The only one embarrassed was you. They do not bow down to the king and you can’t stand it.

These guys have more love for American in their little fingers then you do in your whole body. What greatness have you done that you can even be in the same room as these two fine Americans?

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pragmaticpatriot
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:26am
Pardon me maryelizebeth but the only way i knew he was black is because the non-conservative media started spinning and shouting about it even before the speech was over. How many black, hispanic and women are in congress? How many are democrat? Why are you here spewing hate?

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fastgen1
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:16am
The dear DR. knows that bammy is the antichrist and being a christian must call the 666 out. I wonder how long the dr will live before checking out by a quickly brought on heart attack.

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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:32am
  Actually he’s an adventist. Adventists believe the anti-christ will come out of the catholic church, from old protestant belief system.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarius_Filii_Dei
  
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Gonzo
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:14am
Col. West, move back to GA and run for Chambliss’ Senate seat please!

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- right field
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:40am
  Yes! Please Allen West – move back to Georgia and run for any office and be among people who know and understand freedom!
  Georgia & this country need your leadership!
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:00am
  This is what you must know:
  
  No one lets us speak . . . waa waa waa . . .conservatives aren’t allowed to say . . . blah blah blah . . . Can you imagine what would happen to a conservative if . . . waa blah waa
  
  Why are you people such pantywastes? And you say you stand for individual responsibility. What a complete joke. The most you’re willing to do for yourselves is stand in line for a chicken sandwich. That’s it. That’s the full extent of your courage and commitment – buying junk food. We’ve heard your threats. And we’ve seen your actions. We are not impressed.
  
  It is so.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:18am
  sensei- oh look zombie sensei is back trying to brainwash conservatives with his rhetoric. You have a major mental issue constantly siding with the President and his evil policies.
  
  It is so.
  
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- Zipit
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 5:16pm
  Don’t get too excited WANG! You mother has yet to do your laundry, and you don’t have any clean underwear! Have you heard anything from the insurance company!
  
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- posm1st
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 11:21am
  YOURSENSEI is somewhat correct in his statement. Most people will only talk. Have you gone out into your community to see who would work together with you to make your community safe or are you still relying ion the corrupted police department (who won’t show until the know it is safe). Talk the talk but only if you’re going to walk the walk.
  
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FiscalBill
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:03am
Speech was amazing. If he’s an “uncle tom” we need more of them.

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- CathyvanDyke
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 12:16pm
  Allen West: Dr. Carson violated the unwritten rule of being an African-American male and criticizing Pres. Obama’s policies
  Published February 11, 2013
  
  VAN SUSTEREN: And as you may have noted, that Dr. Carson is a world famous neurosurgeon making those comments has caused somewhat of a controversy among some because they were made at the prayer breakfast. Your thoughts on that, sir?
  
  WEST: …. I thought that we lived in an America where you could have freedom of speech. And I believe that the doctor gave his assessment of some of the policies that involve his profession in the health care profession, and also talking about the culture of and the relationship of government to the individual.
  
  Now, I think what has everyone upset is that he violated the unwritten rule of being an African-American male and he criticized the policies of President Obama, which I can somewhat understand, having been on the other side of a lot of attacks, as well.
  
  But if you go back to September of 2012, there was the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Emanuel Cleaver, who gave an incredible statement saying that if anyone else were in the White House other than President Obama, that they would be marching on the White House, and that the President Obama knows that he is given a deference that would not be given to a white president.
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2013/02/12/allen-west-dr-carson-violated-unwritten-rule-being-african-american-male-and-criticizin
  
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kat747
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:02am
When you are a Citizen of the United States of American,
you have the right to criticize the President, et al.
There is NO unwritten rule that if you are Afro-American that you do not have a voice in this
country and cannot “criticize” the annointed one. Look back in time and listen to some of the filth
and garbage the bros threw at Pres. Bush. You can do the same to this one. You have to be POLITICALLY CORRECT and you cannot be a RACIST. (What goes around, comes around !)
And don’t ever forget, that the working American taxpayers PAY HIS SALARY and pay for him & his family to live in luxury in the White House and take expensive vacations on Air Force I & II and the plane that flys the dog and his trainer and buys the First Family $2.8 Billion in clothes over the past four years.
Now, what was that you wanted to say ? Afro-Americans cannot criticize WHO ???

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- right field
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:48am
  Obama needs to be criticized and criticized often! No one should retreat from exercising his or her 1st Amendment rights. ‘Freedom of Speech’ and criticism of elected officials go hand in hand – anytime, anyplace; for any reason – let it rip!
  
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harveyhornet
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:58am
Dr. Carson will also be criticized for his references to God and looking at the Bible for policy guidelines.
My answer to that: we have had 4 years of an administration that arrogantly thinks they can govern without seeking God’s help and aggressively targets Christian values – how’s that working out?
Dr. Carson reminds me of the Founders who sought for wisdom in the Good Book. I also love his latest interview comment on FOX….”someone has to start telling the truth and standing up to the bullies”

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- Sandy in NewYork
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:20am
  Amen Harvey!
  
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Penn
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:55am
White Americans have been conditioned to fear criticizing any people of “color” or risk being called racists. See a ***** or Mexican or Asian doing something wrong or stupid and its bite you tongue whitey. It’s great to see honorable men, who happen to be black, step up to the plate and call out other blacks when appropriate, but unless we get past the guilt or fear whites have in doing the same thing, then we’ve haven’t seen any improvement in race relations, just a type of role reversal from the 60′s.

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- Penn
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:01am
  I can not believe that the BIG BROTHER who reviews these comments starred my use of the word N-E-G-R-O! Are Caucasian or Asian considered offensive too?
  
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- CABERNETQHS
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:34am
  I work with a mostly black unionized population. Any anti Obama speach is automatically deemed racist. We are in the middle of Black History month, but mention Allen West or any other conservative black and you get laughter. It’s programming. Those who avoided the dependancy induction can see the truth.
  
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Derek01
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:49am
I think the media knows Obama is an idiot but they like the BS, the deceit, the fooling the commoners, and especially his ability to pretend to know what he’s doing. They can’t ask him tough questions off the cuff. Questions need to go through “handlers” so a proper BS response can be given. Don’t want to make their “fake” look like a fool.

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thibx
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:49am
if every black family out there was like dr. carson’s mother and her son, they would be on top of all the rest in this country.

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FightingBear
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:25am
I guess Dr. Carson hates Black people too. (At least in the mind of a liberal.)

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- Xyskalla
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:44am
  Yes, that’s the crazy thing about it. You can’t criticize Obama either way. If you’re black and you criticize him, either you’re not black enough or you’re a traitor. If you’re white and criticize Obama, you’re a racist. Either way, the Left’s approach to this strategy is racist through and through, because it’s basically saying that Obama’s race is the only criteria worth considering.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:32am
  XYS: Bingo. That is precisely why the Democrats chose him ! Divide the country over race AND play the Race Card to help bring on the ” revolution!” So very Charles Manson of the Chicago radicals…they share the same love for ” change” …
  
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- Lloyd Drako
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 1:19pm
  The Democrats chose Obama so they could feel good about themselves. f the Republicans choose Carson, it will be in the vain hope that they can make black people feel good about the Republicans. There may be no transparency in government, but there sure is in politics.
  
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Watcher1952
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:12am
If more people would take Dr. Carson’s lead, AMERICA will get back on track to being the land of the plenty. Barack Hussein Obama is tearing this country apart….Speak the truth to all those around you……

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- Red Meat
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:24am
  Any statement coming from Allen West is meaningless to me. He’s one of the reasons I will never support another black person in elected office.
  
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- DLV
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:13am
  Red meat- That’s racist not exactly doing yourself any favors when making statements like that. You can’t just paint black people in a broad brush like you just did. A) That’s ignorant. B) That’s racist. and then of course you give the left validity to their arguments when they shouldn’t.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:10am
Well, we are certainly not going to let that urban myth survive are we? The fact that the media suggests this sort of thing, tells you they don’t want your opinion? Why don’t you folks that believe that stuff ask President Putin for immigration instructions? Maybe he can explain common sense to you better then we can?

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ElDeVerde
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:04am
If a white person criticizes Obama they are called a racist who hates his black half. If a black guy criticizes Obama does that mean that he’s a racist who hates Obama’s white half?

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- SacredHonor1776
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:47am
  “In April of 1968, on the day after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, a major riot broke out at my high school in inner-city Detroit. Most of the black students were so outraged that they were trying to physically harm anyone who was white. Some very serious beatings took place, and I saw many of my white friends being harassed. The student population of the school was about 70 percent black, so the white students did not have much of a chance. At the time, I held a job as the biology laboratory assistant setting up experiments for the other students. The department even trusted me with a key to the science classrooms and the greenhouse. So during the riot, I used that key to open the greenhouse and hide several white students during the melee. By that time in my life, I understood the extent of racism in America, but I also was beginning to have hope for the future. Having lived and studied among both black and white cultures, I knew that there are good white and black people and there are bad white and black people. It mattered not what color your skin was on the outside, but rather what the condition was of your heart and mind inside. And as I better understood human nature, I felt more emboldened to do things differently than everybody else and to chart my own course for a successful life.”-Dr. Ben Carson in America the Beautiful.
  
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- HappyConservative
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:49am
  It just blows my mind that everyone keeps ignoring the fact that barry is every bit as much a white man as he is a black man.
  
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- Xyskalla
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:52am
  Yeah, and we would have voted for 100% black Herman Cain just to prove that we’re not racist? We’d vote for 100% black Herman Cain to keep a man who’s only half-black out of the White House because we don’t like blacks? If you notice, nobody ever said you’re a racist if you don’t like Herman Cain. Politics makes me sick.
  
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- pragmaticpatriot
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:33am
  @ElDeVerde, im not prejudiced, i dont like either side of him. He has all the qualities i despise and none of the vices that i admire
  
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barber2
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:00am
The Obama Administration is a Media circus. Barack Obama is the ring master. Watch tonight when he will parade a bunch of anti-gun performers , paid for by the sucker taxpayers, for his State of the Union Media Show. The Obama Chicago radicals’ circus provides the gullible public with a Far Left 24/7 media show. Pass the pop corn. Disengage brain.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:09am
  BARBER2, Make that some lightly buttered pop corn, and I’m with you.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P07flAjruAc
  
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Bohump
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 8:00am
We can Speak to OUR God, ….. Why can we not Speak to There,s ?

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progressiveslayer
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:54am
The good doctor sure did and the Barry supporters who insist on living on the plantation will undoubtedly hurl the ‘uncle Tom’ epithet at him without knowing the true meaning of it.

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- no1dude
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 7:05pm
  Those same Barry supporters probably also believe that it was conservatives who made up the bulk of the “Jim Crow” laws. Sadly Sir Slayer, you can lead these horses a__es to knowlege, but you can’t make them think!
  
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