Newly minted Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson is currently under fire for referring to slaves as immigrants. But former President Barack Obama said the same thing in 2015 without fanfare.
While Obama did not say “slaves” during his speech made during a naturalization ceremony at the National Archives, but he mentioned “those of African heritage who had not come here voluntarily” who “in their own way were immigrants themselves.”
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