Two-time Trump administration official Ben Carson is out with an op-ed demonstrating how the SPLC unfairly targeted him.
Carson, who served first as the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development and serves now as the National Advisor for Nutrition, Health, and Housing, wrote the op-ed for Fox News.
“In 2014, the SPLC added me to their list of dangerous extremists, for the ‘hate crime’ of being a Black, Christian conservative,” the op-ed begins. “They called me a bigot, knowing that it was false and knowing that it would put my family and me in danger.”
“They knew that because two years prior, a gay-rights activist opened fire at the conservative Family Research Council after the SPLC falsely branded them a hate group. But the SPLC didn’t care. Because — as we see now — spreading hate was the SPLC’s core business all along,” the op-ed continues.
They are manufacturing hate. But truth will always find its way into the light. We are not each other’s enemies.
Godspeed to @Kash_Patel and @DAGToddBlanche as they work to expose the full extent of the hatred and division manufactured by the SPLC. pic.twitter.com/D4atalnrRu
— Ben & Candy Carson (@RealBenCarson) April 23, 2026
Indeed, as Carson notes in his op-ed, the Southern Poverty Law Center was just recently indicted for basically manufacturing racism.
“According to the indictment, the organization doled out more than $3 million to real hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party,” Carson explains. “They allegedly bankrolled the ‘imperial wizard’ of the United Klans of America and one of the organizers of the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.”
“Most Americans would call a supposed civil rights organization secretly financing White supremacist violence disgusting. To the SPLC, it was an investment. The following year, their revenues almost tripled from $51 million to more than $130 million,” he continues.
Carson argues that the indictment proves that SPLC is “a bigotry profiteer” whose staffers earn a living off the fake, manufactured narrative of widespread, rampant racism in America.
Rep. Lauren Boebert agrees:
The SPLC manufactured racism to stay relevant. And they made BIG money off of it. pic.twitter.com/tCBn46Hceq
— Rep. Lauren Boebert (@RepBoebert) April 22, 2026
The reality, according to Carson, is that America is the opposite of what the SPLC tried to portray it as.
“Despite the SPLC’s Cash for Klansmen program, the United States is the least racist country in the world,” he explains in his op-ed. “In the 21st century, we are mostly living Martin Luther King’s dream of a colorblind society. That’s a tremendous achievement for a nation that had so far to come on that score in the last century.”
“In fact, there is so little bigotry in America today that the SPLC reportedly had to fabricate it. To hate-hustling grifters like the SPLC, moral progress poses an existential threat. If they ever admitted the truth, they would lose their money and their power. So, they perpetuate their lucrative lie,” he continues.
Carson notes that it’s a scam just like every other scam the left has pushed, from the Russian collusion delusion hoax and conspiracy theory to the COVID-19 wet market conspiracy theory.
From the first week of the pandemic in January of 2020, to the end of the pandemic in 2023, Fauci consistently pushed the wet market theory and shot down the lab leak theory.
Three years of pushing a lie while calling others conspiracy theorists. pic.twitter.com/JTfuAlPLLj
— Johnny Midnight
(@its_The_Dr) April 19, 2025
“They knew President Joe Biden was mentally impaired when they swore up and down he was sharper than ever,” Carson writes, offering another example of a prominent scam.
“They knew Obamacare would kick people off their health insurance when they promised, ‘if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.’ They know unborn babies aren’t ‘clumps of cells.’ And they know today that ‘trans women’ aren’t women,” he continues.
The question is — why do they tell these lies? According to Carson, it’s “because they care more about power than they care about the truth.”
“They can’t beat conservatives in honest, good faith debate. So, they resort to weaponized rhetoric that demonizes dissent,” he explains. “They kept it up even after Trump survived multiple assassination attempts. And even after TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk didn’t.”
