Among the people who “do more before breakfast than most others do all day,” Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins is atop the list. What he does really is brain surgery, and not just brain surgery, but brain surgery on infants, the most delicate of patients.
His steady hands and quiet manner in the operating room will be excellent training for his latest challenge: withstanding the verbal slings and arrows of black leaders who don’t like his political views. Dr. Carson, having eloquently expressed his opinions at the National Prayer Breakfast (with President Obama listening nearby) and reaffirmed them at several media appearances and at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference, is now fair game for lockstep liberals who can’t imagine, much less brook, a black man engaging in principled, reasoned dissent from the left-wing party line.
Dr. Carson says the life of victimhood won’t advance anyone. He told Henry Payne of the Detroit News, “Nobody stopped me from going into Wayne State University's library and taking advantage of all kinds of programs. [We must] empower people to take advantage of the multiple opportunities that exist.”
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