Thank you, Dr. Ben Carson for standing up for the American people and warning them about what is going on in our country.  You speak truth to power!  There are many black people who have succeeded in America with the help of others and their hearts were not filled with hate nor did they promote hate.  One of them was Ethel Waters. 

Ethel Waters and Charles Samuels’ book, “Natural Kindness Without Prejudice,” should certainly be an inspiration to all black and white people.  Ethel Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1900 and became a night-club singer at the age of seventeen.  In the book, she states:

“What I’d discovered while I had my back to the wall was that human kindness was depthless, immeasurable, and broke across all color lines and geographical boundaries.  After all, ten times more people, colored and white, had tried to help me than had callously permitted me to suffer.  There was that little white nurse, Miss Rose, who made her living illegally, selling corn whisky; her open-handed, open-hearted, tough customers; the Negro doctor who, without thought of fee, had labored like a slave to save my leg – and finally the white constable in Anniston.  The whole experience convinced me that basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns, and yellows.  I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.  All the rest of my life since, I’ve never been able to recognize and appraise people, love and hate them, because of their skin color or the part of the world they came from.  I would have to be guided, henceforth, only by the good or evil that was in them.”  It is my hope that all people have the thought process change that Ms. Waters experienced.

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