Donald Trump surrogate Ben Carson slammed Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday for comparing North Carolina’s controversial bathroom law to Jim Crow laws.
North Carolina “created state-sponsored discrimination against transgender individuals” that violates federal civil law, Lynch said in a press conference Monday announcing a lawsuit against the state.
“We saw it in the Jim Crow laws that followed the Emancipation Proclamation,” said Lynch. “We saw it in the fierce and widespread resistance to Brown v. Board of Education.”
Carson, a former Republican presidential candidate, was not pleased.
“That’s what they always say,” Carson said in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto Monday night. “Everything is like Jim Crow. Everything is like racism and segregation and slavery. What a bunch of crap.”
According to Carson, liberals make the comparison to gain sympathy, but said “thinking people know better.”
“You know, we need to go back to recognizing data and science. You know, we know what men are, and we know what women are, and we’ve known that for thousands of years,” Carson concluded. “You know, if there are some people who are confused about it, we can make some accommodations for them, but it doesn’t have to involve everybody.”
