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Ben Carson, onetime Republican nominee for president and current secretary of the Housing

and Urban Development department is by all accounts a brilliant brain surgeon, but it

seems, once again, that's where his brilliance ends.

Earlier this week he told a crowd of HUD employees that slaves shipped here during the Middle

Passage were actually immigrants who hoped to better their families' lives in the "land

of dreams and opportunity."

Yes, for, real.

Pick any page at random from a history book and I think it's pretty easy to see that prosperity

and happiness were not what awaited the prisoners of slave ships in the new world.

Carson doubled down after literally the entire country had to explain the difference between

slaves and immigrants to the new secretary of HUD.

Carson appeared on the Armstrong Williams Show to defend his comments that equated slaves

to immigrants.

He stated that there was nothing wrong with his comments, as he believes slaves are technically

immigrants, and that anyone who criticized the comments was simply "trying to stir up

controversy."

Photo ops aside, another caller stated the

simple fact that an immigrant is not brought against their will.

Carson responded: "Yes, you can.

You can be an involuntary immigrant."

During the republican primaries it was revealed that Carson once told graduates during a commencement

address in the late '90s that he believed the pyramids in Egypt were built by the biblical

character Joseph to store grain, and not, as most archeologists believe, as tombs for

pharaohs.

And during that same speech to HUD employees Carson also claimed that a brain surgeon such

as himself could simply drill a hole in your head, stimulate your brain with electricity,

and make you recite word-for-word a book you read decades earlier.

The response to Carson on Twitter were fast and brutal, but one of the most brutal refutations

came from Samuel L. Jackson.

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