Carson’s comments came a couple of days after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, admitted he was wrong for opposing kneeling and misunderstanding its purpose — a revelation apparently achieved only after Floyd’s death weeks ago even though a laundry list of other unarmed Black people have been brutally killed since Colin Kaepernick was excommunicated from the NFL for pioneering the protest.

In what failed to be the “aha” moment he probably expected it to be, Carson explained to Tapper that there would be no controversy with the kneeling protest if the Black players participating would simply profess their love for the United States of America.

When the topic turned to systemic racism in law enforcement, though, Carson’s comments were truly astonishing.

“I grew up at a time when there was real systemic racism,” Carson told Tapper while stressing the word “real” in a suggestion that downplayed the verified existence of lasting racial bias within law enforcement.

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