SUPPORT DR BEN CARSON - A CONSERVATIVE DREAM

Dr. King Had a Dream… Dr. Carson is that Dream Come True! Dear Conservatives -- Today, America celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost everyone remembers Dr. King for his immortal 17-minute “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, DC in 1963, especially this line… “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” But here’s something, as noted in Wikipedia, that most people probably don’t know about Dr. King… “King said his father regularly whipped him until he was fifteen and a neighbor reported hearing the elder King telling his son ‘he would make something of him even if he had to beat him to death.’” While most of society today would consider such harsh discipline a form of child abuse, King’s father surely never, in his own wildest dreams, could have imagined just how much his son would go on to make of himself. The story of Dr. Ben Carson is no less dramatic. As a boy, Carson did horribly in school.  He regularly placed at the bottom of his class and was ridiculed unmercifully by classmates. But his divorced mother, Sonya, was determined that her two sons would make something of themselves.  So neither was allowed to go outside and play after school until their homework was done and watch only a limited amount of television and even then, only certain programs. Young Ben was also required to read two library books each week and write a report on them for his mother, who could barely read them.  As biography.com explains, Sonya “was determined that her sons would have greater opportunities than she did.” Although warned that such strict discipline could cause irreparable harm in her relationship with her sonse, Sonya persisted.  Eventually, Ben came to appreciate reading and then thrived on it. He began to “see himself differently” and “saw that he could become the scientist or physician he had dreamed about.” It was a quintessentially American dream rooted in the wisdom of Napolean Hill that “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” Carson went on to excel in high school and “was determined to achieve his goal” of attending medical school and becoming a physician.  “He knocked on doors looking for summer work and usually, through persistence, was able to obtain one.” As we all know now, Carson got into Yale University and later became a resident at Johns Hopkins University where in 1985 he “became director of pediatric neurosurgery at the young age of 33.” Then, “On September 4, 1987, Carson and a team of 70 doctors, nurses, and support staff joined forces for what would be a 22-hour surgery… to separate two 7-month-old craniopagus twins from Germany.” Carson’s mind conceived performing the operation successfully.  He believed he could do it.  And he did. Dr. King’s mind conceived dramatic improvements in race rations in American.  He believed he could do it.  And he did. As for me… Immediately after Dr. Carson’s National Prayer Breakfast speech, my mind conceived of him becoming President of the United States. I believe with all my heart it’s possible. And with your continued help, we’ll do it. Sincerely yours, John Philip Sousa IV National Chairman http://www.runbenrun.org/