By Edward Rios
And there is at least one black guy on the cabinet, too.
Donald Trump (click here) has offered retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson the role of secretary of housing and urban development. That's surprising for two reasons. Just a week ago, Carson's close adviser and friend Armstrong Williams told The Hill that the former Republican presidential candidate had told Trump he was not interested in a Cabinet position because he felt "he has no government experience" and "he's never run a federal agency."
But perhaps more important, Carson has no obvious qualifications for the role. His career has been in medicine, and he was thought to be a top candidate to head the Department of Health and Human Services or possibly the Department of Education. Instead, Trump surprised nearly everyone on Tuesday by tweeting that he was considering Carson for HUD, and then by offering him that role.
Still, Carson has weighed in on matters of housing and urban development—by criticizing efforts to combat housing segregation....
Okay, minute is up. I really didn't want to write this, but, "W" provided the perfect words for this nomination; "Good job, Brownie." It was not meant as an ethnic issue. I just couldn't shake the thought.
Ben Carson's job does not need qualifications. Actually, if Ben Carson had the qualifications for the job, he would have to struggle for permission to destroy the programs that help Americans with housing.
Look, Trump is not sympathetic to people needing housing. He threw people out of their apartments to build his empire.
With those realities, you tell me what Ben Carson's nomination is going to achieve and it isn't anything with the descriptor "humanitarian."And there is at least one black guy on the cabinet, too.
