Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful future of Race in America, Dr. Ben Carson, Candy Carson, Dr. Alveda King, authors; Terrence King, narrator What actually is cruel is convincing people that they are victims and do not have control of their own destiny. “ Critical race Theory is only taught in a graduate school setting. The scare tactic of the right wing is pushing this craziness for you to think that they are being taught this in kindergarten! And with this craziness they are taking studies away from kids! O they claim that the statue of David from Michael Angelo is now pornographic! Who is truly suppressing our young citizens? Absolutely ridiculous! Today, the family of four lives still lives together in their renovated home and has four well-fed pet dogs. They have two known brothers, Kenneth and Larry, who are comparatively well-spoken and lives nearby. Larry also has a daughter named Betty, who could possibly be named after her aunt. We’re running the risk of one day not having a Constitution, and hence not having a country. We’re going to pay a price. People forget what happened to the great empires of the world: the Ottoman Empire, gone, fragmented; the Habsburg Empire; the Roman Empire. And the one thing that we have is this long-lasting written constitution, that should be, for us, like the Holy Grail: to be protected. Our desires don’t amend the Constitution, that’s the touchstone for everything. It allows us to live in a free society, but it doesn’t guarantee us the best position in that free society.”

I have never read a book that better tells the story of race in America than Ben Carson’s Created Equal.By weaving America’s history with his own family story we all get a handbook on how to succeed in today’s world. This book pulls no punches about this nation’s imperfect past but alsoexplains how wrongly interpreting the pastwill kill this country’s future.”— Brian Kilmeade, co-anchor, Fox & Friends I loved this book, which is basically a transcription of interviews with Clarence Thomas by the producers of the documentary “Created Equal” (also highly recommended). Clarence Thomas is one of my heroes. The Constitution guarantees liberty. Now liberty gives you the liberty to succeed, liberty to fail, liberty to be mediocre, liberty to be outstanding. It doesn’t guarantee either, but it does guarantee your right that the government isn’t going to tell you what to do every day.” Dr. Carson provides examples of the ways in which he may have been subjected to racism, and he explains how he handled each of the situations. Rather than being insulted and having a knee-jerk reaction, he understood that the slight may merely have been a logical error because of expectations, be they correct or incorrect, and instead of getting angry, he responded with understanding often developing relationships far into the future with some of these same people who said something foolish, like assuming he was an employee not a brain surgeon.

17. College Graduate / High School Dropout

I would bet that inbreeding was at least partly responsible for the mental and physical abnormalities seen in Lorraine, Freddie, Ray and Timmy,” wrote Latia in the description. I promised my mommy I wouldn’t get married. I was going to stay home and take care of Ray, Lorraine and Timmy,” she shared. While Thomas' Catholic upbringing are clear throughout the book, digging deeper into his religious beliefs isn't done enough. When he divorces his first wife or when he marries a non-Catholic second wife or what he actually believes about God isn't really brought up. He talks about the structure the RCC gave to him and his brother (and his grandfather) and there are times when he mentions prayer and God but this would have also been an interesting compare and contrast with today's world vs. even 50 years ago, especially in Catholic culture.

Thomas married in his 20s and had a son, Jamal. He and his wife divorced, and later he met and married his current wife, Virginia “Ginni.” He seems very sweet, speaking so kindly of her and she of him. She was from Nebraska, and he, a sports fan, decided then to become a fan of Nebraska teams. Early in their marriage, he was nominated to the Supreme Court by President George Bush. This came as a big surprise to him. He talks of preparing for his hearings, and how those helping would never ask him about Roe v. Wade since they knew that would come up, and they wanted him to honestly say he hadn’t been asked/prepared about that topic ahead of time. The grueling hearings took 8 days and the Thomases were relieved when they ended. He speaks of Joe Biden, who was in charge of the hearings. Biden had called Thomas and said he would be his biggest supporter, etc — which did not end up happening in real life. The full story behind the wildly successful documentary film, Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words* Dr. Carson brings up better police tactics or procedures for use of force regarding violent criminals. Since the early seventies numerous less than lethal devices have been implemented with little success except for the TASER. The TASER works perfectly without exception. The problem exists with the operator not the TASER. Dr Carson’s life story proves that through the promises of America and consistent hard work, we are not destined to be defined by our challenging circumstances, but rather can pursue happiness and exhaust our potential as was intended by our Creator.”— John Rich, singer and songwriter The Whittakers of Odd, West Virginia is far from an ordinary family. Brought to widespread recognition by the accomplished American photographer Mark Latia, they first appeared on his Created Equal portrait book in 2004.

She further went on to say that Timmy being a nephew, not a cousin, “adds to the proof that this is a genetic issue because his parents were not relates.” When he is referring to the riots after George Floyd, he actually stated that that is unthinkable in today. Was he sleeping during January 6? Blaming antifa which is an anti-fascism movement, Anti-fascism is not a bad thing. I’m trying to wrap my mind around the fact that you I agree that one must finish school, get a job and wait to have kids. It's a good recipe for success. However, we still don't have an applied answer to ignorance and violence. Or we just like being led by the nose by a hate-filled sensationalized press? However, Boxden reported other comments below the video which argued otherwise. One commenter named Michelle Cole stated;

Watching the documentary lead me to Clarence Thomas' memoir, My Grandfather's Son (2007). Incidentally, I remain confused by the subtitle of this new project, "Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words," as my Grandfather's Son appears to have been written by neither a ghost writer nor a biographer, but Justice Thomas himself. Don't we already have a book in his published autobiography? My review here: I first gained respect for Dr. Carson years ago when my then elementary son did a report on him for school. Since then I have been aware of his run for the presidency in 2016 and that he was a conservative, but not much else. I considered him to be highly intelligent, wise and deeply spiritual, and while I knew I might not agree with everything he said, I was looking forward to learning from him and being challenged by his viewpoints.Thomas does well in school, and ends up at Yale Law School. He speaks of the strange feeling of increasingly living in a different world from his grandparents. I remember feeling the same way when I went to college. It was strange that my parents could no longer relate to my day-to-day life, as they always had before. Thomas became liberal in ideology and stopped attending the Catholic church that had greatly informed his youth. Thank you to NetGalley and Center Street Publishing for allowing me to read this ARC version of Created Equal by Ben Carson. My thoughts are my own. Created Equal released May 17, 2022. Before we suffer the loss of the precious freedoms that we currently enjoy, we must awaken to the slippery slopes of Marxist tendencies that are cropping up everywhere. “