Carson questions Obama blackness in fading campaign
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ben Carson is trying to reinvigorate his campaign for Republican presidential nomination by becoming the latest to question Barack Obama's blackness ahead of critical upcoming votes.
The retired neurosurgeon, hovering near the bottom of the GOP field, said in a series of recent interviews that Obama was "raised white" and doesn't represent the "black experience" in the United States.
Carson has come under racial criticism himself, but his comments helped him break through the cacophony of speeches and interviews by provocative front runner Donald Trump and rivals Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich.
[...] he's suggested he is still waiting to see evidence of racial bias by U.S. law enforcement agencies.
Carson, however, has lost some admiration that many blacks held for his life story and medical accomplishments as his conservative views won praise in heavily white Republican circles.
In a 2011 interview on MSNBC's The Ed Show, longtime critic Cornel West said Obama, as the son of an African father and a white mother, always had to fear being a white man with black skin. ...