While visiting with local leaders in Harlem on Wednesday, Dr. Ben Carson said that Black Lives Matter activists are "creating strife" and not searching for solutions to the issues that are important.
"Of course black lives matter," the Republican presidential candidate said. "But what I feel instead of people pointing fingers at each other and just creating strife, what we need to be talking about is how do we solve problems in the black community. Of murder, essentially." African-Americans, he continued, need to return to "faith and family, the values and principles that got black people through slavery and segregation and Jim Crowism." Without those values, he said, there are higher rates of poverty, single-parent homes, and dependency on welfare programs: "As we throw those things away, we're seeing terrible crimes occurring in our communities."
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