Ben Carson protecting white high school classmates during the 1968 Detroit riots the day after Martin Luther King died
This one is equally dubious. The Daily News explained:
"Last month, Carson detailed how he protected his white high school classmates the day after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination. Race riots ravaged Detroit's Southwestern High, which enrolled more black students than white students.
"Carson, a junior lab assistant with a key to the school's biology workroom, shepherded his frightened friends to the lab to shield them from the violence, he told the Wall Street Journal."
It makes sense that Carson would, in a party of largely white conservatives, try to position himself as someone who saved whites from a mob of angry blacks but here we are. Like the other allegations, the Carson camp can't provide any corroborating evidence to back up this claim and, given the manifestly false West Point and Yale tales, we have little reason to believe this story is true either. Carson has a quite a credibility problem he'll have to answer for in the coming days if he's serious about running for president. The reality, of course, is that he probably isn't.
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