Development Secretary: Ben Carson and Trump Administration

development secretary: In what appears to be an embarrassing pattern of missteps on race for the Trump administration, Carson told a room packed with hundreds of federal workers that the Africans captured, sold and transported to America against their will had the same hopes and dreams as early immigrants, according to Toronto Star. That's what America is about. The Associated Press By Tracy Jan Jose A. DelReal The Washington Post Tues., March 7, 2017 WASHINGTON Ben Carson compared slaves to immigrants seeking a better life in his first official address Monday as Housing and Urban Development secretary, setting off an uproar on social media. A land of dreams and opportunity. 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. There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less, said Carson, speaking extemporaneously as he paced the room with a microphone. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.