Pernicious double standard limits who can use the race card

Published November 13, 2013 5:00am ET



References to slavery are apparently only wrong or inappropriate when black conservatives make them.

Not long ago, Dr. Ben Carson, a world-renowned retired neurosurgeon who worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, called the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, “the worst thing that has happened in this country since slavery.”

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