Ben Carson is one of many Republican candidates running for the Presidency of the United States. How does he differentiate himself from the rest of the pack and why would he be the best one for this country’s highest office?

On his website one of the first things you see is his mantra: Heal Inspire Revive; a seemingly appropriate one for a man who is a retired surgeon, a philanthropist and author. But, further down is a message saying that Planned Parenthood should not be funded. This could be neither here nor there since not all the facts are in on that organizations’ actions.

His message is of course on the Right Wing side of the Republican Party and yet without any real political experience he is very short on what he needs to work with the Congress. After all he has to know how to do the political Cha-Cha; you know the dance all politicians do when trying to get support from their peers. He might know how to deal with the politics of the workplace due to his work at John Hopkins Hospital. But this is no substitute for knowing how typical backroom politics work. And this goes for the other candidates who have never held a political office before.

Now let’s look how he deals with a hot political issue that is very relevant due to his ancestry. The #BlackLivesMatter controversy has him in a completely different box from many others. I am going to know use the quotes he pronounced on NBCs’ Meet The Press program this past Sunday.

“Dr. Ben Carson said Sunday that the war of words over the ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement amounts to “political correctness going amuck,” arguing that the conversation around police violence against African-Americans should be “a little more mature.”

“If you hire a plumber and he does a bad job, do you say all plumbers are bad? Let’s go out and kill them? I don’t think we do that,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, reiterating an argument that he made in the wake of the Baltimore riots earlier this year. “We need to be a little more mature, but certainly in cases where police are doing things that are inappropriate, I think we ought to investigate those promptly and justice should be swift.”

Carson, who is the only African-American in the Republican presidential field, said that Democrat Martin O’Malley should not have apologized to black activists after saying “black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter.”

“That’s what I’m talking about is silly,” Carson said. “Of course all lives matter, and of course we should be very concerned about what’s going on, particularly in our inner cities.””

I quoted a large block of what he said because I want you to see the total context of what he said. What I find interesting is that his defending of Mr. O’Malley is what I consider his being quite correct as a Human Being. Yet as an African American it seems to some of his race that Black lives should matter on a different plane than those of other races. And yes I know that is a simplistic view Mr. Carson is taking, but is the correct one in my opinion. Because all lives do and should matter the same; after all we are all human!

He seems to have a clear message that will resonate with many and rub the wrong way many others. But what makes him standout is he has the conviction to do the right thing and not hide behind his race. The man does speak his mind and is well spoken, two points that go in his favor.

So I urge you to look at him with blinders on and not consider his race or religious affiliation. These are irrelevant to the qualities needed in a President!

That is my opinion- Jumpin Jersey Mike