Bsdetection, you should be ashamed of yourself.  You are twisting Dr. Carson’s comment like your twisted brain.  Slaves may not have thought the US was the land of hope and opportunity, but it is insane to say they did dream that one day it might be for them, and by the grace of God and Republicans, they were freed to pursue their dreams.  It takes a warped mind to say or suggest that Dr. Carson sounds like he thinks there was a waiting list for Africans eager to board the slave ships. You can’t be much more asinine.  I suppose you think Dr Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech was pure fantasy and that people of color in the U.S. never though his dreams would happen to them.  You make many well-reasoned comments in this forum, but this one is beyond the pale.