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Jonah Goldberg, a senior editor at the National Review, suggested in a Friday column that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is "more authentically African-American" than President Obama.

The conservative author lamented that the media never mentions that Carson is black before launching into his argument that Carson is "more" black than the president. Read Goldberg's comparison between Carson and Obama"

But what’s remarkable is that at no point in this conversation did anyone call attention to the fact that Carson is an African-American. Indeed, most analysis of Carson’s popularity from pundits focuses on his likable personality and his sincere Christian faith. But it’s intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that he’s black.

One could argue that he’s even more authentically African-American than Barack Obama, given that Obama’s mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents. In his autobiography, Obama writes at length about how he grew up outside the traditional African-American experience — in Hawaii and Indonesia — and how he consciously chose to adopt a black identity when he was in college.

Meanwhile, Carson grew up in Detroit, the son of a very poor, very hard-working single mother. His tale of rising from poverty to become the head of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories of the last half-century. (Cuba Gooding Jr. played Carson in the movie about his life.) He was a towering figure in the black community in Baltimore and nationally — at least, until he became a Republican politician.

And that probably explains why his race seems to be such a non-issue for the media. The New York Times is even reluctant to refer to him as a doctor. The Federalist reports that Jill Biden, who has a doctorate in education, is three times more likely to be referred to as “Dr.” in the Times as brain surgeon Carson. If the Times did that to a black Democrat, charges of racism would be thick in the air.
Goldberg's comments are reminiscent of tweets published by Rupert Murdoch earlier in October suggesting that Obama is not a "real black president."

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The National Review published an op-ed Friday by columnist and Fox News contributor Jonah Goldberg, who suggested that the argument of Ben Carson being “more African-American” than Barack Obama” is a valid one.

“Here’s something you may not know: Dr. Ben Carson is black,” Goldberg, author of the book Liberal Fascism, wrote, adding “The only way you wouldn’t know he’s black is if you were blind and only listened to the news.”

Goldberg criticized the news media for attempting to hide Carson’s blackness, writing that it is “intriguingly rare to hear people talk about the fact that he’s black.” “How strange it must be for people who comfort themselves with the slander that the GOP is a cult of organized racial hatred that the most popular politician among conservatives is a black man,” Goldberg wrote, adding that liberals ignore Carson’s race because “the race card is just too valuable politically and psychologically for liberals who need to believe that their political opponents are evil.”
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