Samuel L Jackson slams Ben Carson over Slaves were Immigrants Comment
Ben Carson gave a speech on Monday that raised a lot of eyebrows, including Samuel L. Jackson’s.
In his debut as secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Carson told agency employees about the virtues of the “can-do” American society and used “immigrants” who “came here in the bottom of slave ships” as the examples of that virtue.
“That’s what America is about,” Carson said. “A land of dreams and opportunity. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less. But they too had a dream that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great grandsons, great granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land.”
Naturally, Twitter was up in arms about Carson’s comments. This is what actor Samuel L. Jackson had to say about it:
OK!! Ben Carson….I can’t! Immigrants ? In the bottom of SLAVE SHIPS??!! MUTHAFUKKA PLEASE!!!#dickheadedtom
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) March 6, 2017
Ben Carson: Slaves came to America seeking to improve their previous situation: On the ground in Africa in a net surrounded by white dudes.
— Donald J Orwell (@DonaldJOrwell) March 6, 2017
Ben Carson said slaves were immigrants who came over here & worked for less. By “came” you mean FORCED and by “less” you mean NOTHING
— Tariq Nasheed (@tariqnasheed) March 6, 2017
Ben Carson’s Slaves were Immigrants comment is getting ridiculed on Twitter
