You had to work.”Dorian Reeves, 65, a former classmate of Mr. Carson’s from Detroit, remembered his mother regularly summoning her son from playing basketball to study. But for Mr. Carson, a devotion to bettering urban youth does not equate to promoting racial integration, at least not through government. Such moments helped turn Mr. Carson against racial integration through policy. Derek McCoy, vice president of CURE, a nonprofit focused on culture, race and poverty on whose board Mr. Carson has served, said that thinking would remain at the core of Mr. Carson’s approach. Ideology aside, the most pushback Mr. Carson has faced has come from his lack of expertise in housing policy.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2017 10:00 UTC