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Gifted Hands
By Thomas Sowell
Mar 19, 2013
A remarkable book titled Gifted Hands tells the personal story of
Benjamin Carson, a black kid from the Detroit ghetto who went on to
become a renowned neurosurgeon.
At one time young Ben Carson had the lowest grades in his middle school
class, and was the butt of teasing by his white classmates. Worse yet,
he himself believed that he was just not smart enough to do the work.
Fortunately for him, his mother, whose own education went no further
than the third grade, insisted that he was smart. She cut off the
television set and made him and his brother hit the books--books that
she herself could scarcely read.
As young Ben's school work began to catch up with that of his
classmates, and then began to surpass that of his classmates, his whole
view of himself and of the wider world around him began to change. He
began to think that he wanted to become a doctor.
There were a lot of obstacles to overcome along the way, including the
fact that his mother had to be away from time to time for psychiatric
treatment, as she tried to cope with the heavy pressures of trying to
raise two boys whose father had deserted the family that she now had to
support on a maid's wages.
In many ways the obstacles facing young Ben Carson were like those
faced by so many other youngsters in the ghetto. What was different was
that he overcame those obstacles with the help of a truly heroic mother
and the values she instilled in him…
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