Ben Carson is the black guy that racists can like.
Change his pigment and he's just like them.
Ben Carson is the Black guy that the racist left doesn't have control over. You guys can't stand a black man thinking my for himself.
Not really.
While Carson's story is pretty amazing, he made use of lots of "leftist" programs to get him out of poverty.
He wants to shut the door behind him because, essentially, he's a sociopath. That helps with being a surgeon because he doesn't really have much empathy but it doesn't help him with being a politician for very much the same reason.
That also falls in to the conservative agenda of cutting social programs and demonizing the minorities.
Carson actually hired a racist:
Republican presidential frontrunner Ben Carson announced on Friday that he has named former federal judge Charles W. Pickering to serve as his Mississippi state chair. In a statement, Carson said he is grateful for the retired judge’s “trust and confidence,” and Pickering said Carson has the “integrity and moral authority to lead and bring America together.”
But Pickering, the new campaign leader who hopes help the only black candidate in the 2016 race to bring the country together, has a troubled history of racism and support for segregation. Most notably, he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and attacked advocates who were working to end Jim Crow during the 1960s.
Ben Carson Hires State Chair Who Supported Jim Crow And Opposed The Civil Rights Act
He's also said he thinks there should be a religious litmus test for the presidency.
Ben Carson says no Muslim should ever become US president
This is very much in line with the White Theocratic Christian agenda which has become the Republican Platform.