Dr. Ben Carson

    
     Ben Carson was the greatest pediatric neurosurgeon in the world whose fame is the first successful separation of craniopagus conjoined (joined at the head) twins. Why is this so significant?

• He was black. When he was growing up, there was still a lot of discrimination against African-Americans, which gave him a difficult childhood. He had less of everything because of it.
• His mother was single and mentally unstable. She had to work full-time on top of her mental issues to support her 2 boys, which meant the boys didn't have much, nor did they always have a mother.
• He grew up in Detroit. There were not a lot of amenities or good things around the slums where Ben Carson grew up - he grew up playing around the railroad tracks.
• He was poor. There wasn't much money to go around and so they had less of a chance at anything in life.
• His mother did not have much of an education; therefore, she couldn't always help him with school.
• He had a temper. How many times he was glad that God had spared him from ever seriously hurting someone because of it.
• He is a Christian. We all understand how hard it is to be so up high in the ranks, but how difficult it is to stay a sincere, true Christian.

     And yet, Dr. Ben Carson survived and became strong. His mother brought it on herself to raise them as strictly as possible and they were too respectful of her as a parent to even disobey her - if only all children were like that nowadays. He had to work doubly hard to reach where he wanted to go, but he got it. His mother couldn't read, but she still "marked" their book reports and the boys were none the wiser. He came out of a poor childhood, but he became rich.