Earlier this month, Ben Carson compared his work as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In a piece for USA Today, Carson wrote, “Fifty years ago, Americans witnessed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the passage of the landmark Fair Housing Act.
Each event is inexorably linked with the other… As a child growing up in Detroit during the struggle for civil rights, I saw the impact of discrimination firsthand and witnessed the impact these closed doors had for my family and our neighbors. I experienced it again after my parents separated and we were forced to live in a small apartment in Boston with my aunt.”
He continued, “I lead a department that keeps this promise alive by enforcing the Fair Housing Act and making certain the aspirations of law are made manifest. As our nation recalls these tragic and triumphant events, we also need to rededicate ourselves to battle injustice in our housing markets. We honor these two moments in our nation’s history by continuing to confront overt and even subtle discrimination that persists half a century later. And we resolve to take King’s dream into the next 50 years.”
Despite these words, it appears that Carson is actively trying to dismantle the work of MLK with his ongoing war against poor people and his latest policy proves it. He wants to raise the rent on low-income households.
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