Analysis Of Ben Carson's Gray Matter, The Stuff That Really Matters

What Matters to You? In Ben Carson`s “Gray Matter, the Stuff That Really Matters”, Carson argues how race does not matter when it comes to politics. He states that your brain is the only thing that matters, it makes you who you are. When President Obama was running for his first term, majority of the people that voted him, only voted for him because he was an African American. I asked around, to why they were voting for him and their answer couldn’t be, “Because he`s African American” and ninety percent of them couldn’t give me a valid answer. Race shouldn’t matter when it comes to anything. When it comes to who is going to run our country, what should matter is how they are going to help the people, get us out of debt, etc. “Dr. Carson, I notice that you don’t speak very often about race. Why is that?” “It’s because I’m a neurosurgeon…. I take a patient to the …show more content…
If we would just focus on the real problems going on and so much of the color of our president, things would be so much smoother. We will never move forward as a country, if we don’t stop and realize, color is just a color and does not measure how intelligent or how they act. Just because you are a Caucasian does not mean you know how to run a country better than an African American or Hispanic. Arguments going on about the race of Jesus and Santa Claus, are going beyond ignorant. Why does the race of an imaginary holiday character stir up so much problems? It`s a great family holiday to celebrate and have a good time with everyone. But then again the same people that are complaining about “Race shouldn’t matter” are the same ones that are complaining about the race of Santa. If the minorities want everyone else to forget about their race, then they need to practice what they