Ben Carson: ‘All lives matter, and all lives includes black lives’

Carson was reacting to a question asked of Democrats in Tuesday night’s debate about whether “black lives matter” or “all lives matter,” and called the exchange a typical example of political correctness.

“Of course all lives matter, and all lives includes black lives,” Carson said Wednesday night on the “The Kelly File” on Fox News. “And we have to stop submitting to those who want to divide us into all these special interest groups and start thinking about what works for everybody.”

In Tuesday’s Democratic debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley both said “black lives matter” when asked if black lives or all lives matter, while former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb said that as president of the United States, “every life in this country matters.”

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was given a pass at answering the question, and addressed the issue of race by saying the U.S. needs “a new New Deal for our communities of color.”

According to Carson, Tuesday night’s comments from Democrats are “so typical of political correctness in our country.”

“There are a lot of policies that this administration has embraced that hurt black lives, that hurt all people who are in the underclass,” he said. “You know, the way that we have doubled the national debt and basically abolished the banking system, savings accounts and bonds and things like that, which used to be a mechanism for poor people and middle class people to grow their money — it virtually doesn’t exist anymore.”

“You have to have risk tolerance so you can go into the stock market, that tends to happen with people with more income,” he added.

Carson is currently polling second in a RealClearPolitics average of polls. His 19.1 percent put him right behind Donald Trump’s 23.4 percent.