Ben Carson Explains That Slaves Were Just Immigrants Pursuing Their Dreams

"There were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships, worked even longer, even harder for less."- Trump Housing Secretary, Ben Carson.

While addressing employees at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Monday, Carson put his foot in his mouth when he decided to compare the forced enslavement of Africans during the transatlantic slave trade to voluntary immigration.(Watch Video Below)

He continued his twisted speech with:

"But they, too, had a dream, that one day their sons, daughters, grandsons, granddaughters, great-grandsons, great-granddaughters might pursue prosperity and happiness in this land."

His entire speech was a failed attempt to connect over 400 years of involuntary slavery to the White House's war on voluntary immigration.

Of course the internet lit up in a firestorm after Carson's hasty address and the Department of Housing and Urban Development went into quick damage control.

 In a statement, it said critics were watching only a short clip from a 30-minute speech and were viewing the remarks in bad faith.

“This is the most cynical interpretation of the secretary’s remarks to an army of welcoming HUD employees,” the department said in a statement. “No one honestly believes he equates voluntary immigration with involuntary servitude!”

Ben Carson left no room for misinterpretation as this is not the first time he compared something to slavery.

In 2013, Carson said that Obamacare was the worst thing "since slavery."

"You know Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery," Carson said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. "And it is in a way, it is slavery in a way, because it is making all of us subservient to the government, and it was never about health care. It was about control."

And there you have it.