We do what Brad Carson Did Not

Tom Coburn Wednesday night:

“If you die… If you’re an African American male in this country, you die before the average… your average life expectancy is less than the retirement age of social security. How, what kind of plan is that that we’re gonna take from those because they had a genetic predisposition to have less of a life expectancy. You’re gonna steal from them and give it to somebody else. The fact is that we can solve the problem. We can’t solve it if we won’t talk about it. And we can do with what Albert Einstein said was the most powerful force on earth, which is compound interest. Get it out of the hands of the politicians.”

Here is the clarification that Carson did not provide of Tom Coburn’s words: he is saying that black people have a shorter life expectancy in the US due to a genetic pre-disposition. Only in Oklahoma could someone say that in front of a “Democratic opponent” and not have his head handed back to him. Shame on Tom Coburn. And shame on Brad Carson.