Detroit’s board of education just voted to remove neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson’s name from a high school, citing the fact that Carson worked in the Trump administration. Benjamin Carson High School of Medicine and Science will be renamed. Dr. Carson told The National Desk he was not surprised by the removal: “Cancel culture is alive and well. It’s infiltrating. Political correctness, wokeness, cancel culture, this is going to destroy us as a nation if we don’t get a grip on it.”
Dr. Carson spent his childhood in a Detroit housing project before growing up to become a trailblazing neurosurgeon. He was the youngest chief of pediatric neurosurgery in America, assuming that role when he was a mere 33. In 1987 he led the surgical team that achieved the first successful separation of conjoined twins. Carson is famous for developing new surgery techniques and successfully overseeing some of the most difficult pediatric neurosurgery cases in the nation.
Dr. Carson was also the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development during the Trump administration.
In short, Carson is a symbol of the American dream, and of America’s changing racial landscape. Despite growing up in the projects, he managed to become one of the most famous surgeons on Earth, and then hold one of the highest positions in the most powerful nation on Earth.
Yet, the school board has devalued his accomplishments just because he holds political beliefs shared by nearly half of America’s population.
Through his surgeries, Carson has saved the lives of hundreds, and maybe thousands, of children. And in the course of his career, he has pioneered surgical techniques that saved thousands more.
