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Ben Carson: America Needs to ‘Grow up’ and Stop ‘Being Offended by Everything’

June 16, 2020 by Staff

(Christian Headlines) HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Sunday urged Americans to stop being offended “by everything” and to “grow up.” 

Carson, the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, made the comments on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos after being asked about President Trump’s acceptance speech being scheduled in Jacksonville, Fla., on Aug. 27, the 60th anniversary of a KKK mob attacking mostly black civil rights protesters in that city.

“Is it appropriate to be having a convention speech on that anniversary in that city?” Stephanopoulos asked.

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