Ben Carson Helps Debut Online Magazine for Black Conservatives

Dr. Ben Carson, whose name is generating some buzz as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016, is launching a new online magazine for African-American conservatives. Carson received notice for his criticism of President Barack Obamas federal health-care law at the 2013 National Prayer Breakfast.

Carson showcased American CurrentSee on Tuesday in an email to conservatives.

America is the land of dreams, and it has fulfilled the dreams of so many people from so many places, Carson wrote. As a child, I dreamed of becoming a doctor. And by working hard, embracing my mother's values and seizing opportunity, I was able to become a neurosurgeon. But I worry that today's generations have been lulled into a complacency that is destroying the promise of The Dream.

The ruling elite has convinced too many young adults that it's OK to stay at home and live in your parents' basements playing video games or aimlessly roaming the streets with friends, Carson continued. After all, you can get a monthly check, a free cellphone and health insurance from Uncle Sam for doing nothing. Opportunity has been replaced by despair. Embracing character, values, marriage and family has been ridiculed. Government dependence has been substituted for self-reliance. And mediocrity has replaced excellence.

I want you to join me today in demolishing this culture of failure and standing up to the media elite, who for too long have treated black Americans as a monolithic bloc addicted to a single political dogma, Carson continued. We need a new media source that embraces hard work, moral character, family values, good education and self-reliance, and inspires the next generation with role models who have cast off the chains of mediocre expectations and proven that the American dream is alive and well.

That's why I have joined friends like Armstrong Williams, Rev. A.R. Bernard, Juan Williams and others to create American CurrentSee, a new type of digital magazine that gets delivered every Sunday to your email inbox and works on your computer, smart phone or tablet, Carson added. It will arm you for this fight by boldly addressing wrongheaded entitlement dependency and chronicling how big government's well-intentioned nanny state has created lasting pathologies like broken families, overtaxed businesses, underperforming schools and crime-ridden neighborhoods. Mostly importantly, it will inspire you to embrace a new agenda of economic opportunity, moral leadership and freedom from suffocating government.

I love the last stanza of our national anthem. But I also know that in order to be free, first you must be brave, Carson concluded. Be brave ... together let's demolish the tired old dogmas, free today's generations from dependency and mediocrity and build a better America.