Carson: ‘Black Lives Matter Movement Is Focused on the Wrong Targets’

By Published on August 25, 2015

In an op-ed in USA Today, Republican presidential contender Ben Carson wrote that the Black Lives Matter movement is distracting people from the real problems facing black communities.

“The Black Lives Matter movement is focused on the wrong targets,” Carson wrote.

He asserted that the real problems aren’t police officers, but a lack of job opportunities for young people, parents who don’t have the skills to compete and violence that tears neighborhoods apart.

Carson said on “The Kelly File” last tonight that many black people think like he does, but it’s very risky to speak out.

Read the article “Carson: ‘Black Lives Matter Movement Is Focused on the Wrong Targets’” on insider.foxnews.com.

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