Detroit’s school board has cancelled acclaimed neurosurgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, based upon claims ‘his name on a school was synonymous with having Trump in blackface’.
Riding former board member and career Democrat, Lamar Lemmons’ 2018 remarks, the board voted to change Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine to Crockett Midtown High School of Science and Medicine.
Filling in some of the bizarre backstory, The Washington Post’s Cleve R.
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