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Posted on 05/27/2012 8:42:37 AM PDT by kristinn
When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts.
Seeking to broaden his appeal heading into the general election, Romney was venturing for his first time in this campaign into an impoverished black neighborhood to hear the concerns of local educators and community leaders. But here in the streets of West Philadelphia, the emotion surrounding his contest with the nation’s first black president was raw, as dozens of neighborhood residents shouted, “Get out, Romney, get out!”
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Outside, meanwhile, some brick row houses across from the school were boarded up. Police had cordoned off a full city block to protect Romney and his entourage. Residents, some of them organized by Obama’s campaign, stood on their porches and gathered at a sidewalk corner to shout angrily at Romney. Some held signs saying, “We are the 99%.” One man’s placard trumpeted an often-referenced Romney gaffe: “I am not concerned about the very poor.”
Madaline G. Dunn, 78, who said she has lived here for 50 years and volunteers at the school, said she is “personally offended” that Romney would visit her neighborhood.
“It’s not appreciated here,” she said. “It is absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage.”
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When he visited a classroom where the kids in the elementary school choir were standing, swaying and clapping to the beat of Kirk Franklin’s “I Smile,” Romney appeared charmed but did not dance with them. Rather, he tapped one of his toes slightly and bobbed his head, but did not catch the rhythm..
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Get out, and take Federal money with you. They can sink or swim on their own.
IGNORANCE
Now these poorly brought up generations of citizens are acting like the stupid bigots they have become. This is due mainly to poor upbringing, idiot leaders like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Barak Obama, David Axelrod, Valerie Whatshername, etc. and an intellectually starved community that does not promote education/hard work and dreams but does promote the give-me entitlement culture and a victim mentality. Madaline G. Dunn is the perfect example of a bigoted idiot who promotes hateful ignorance. It is disgusting that she is put in a position of role model.
Who in their right mind wants to be identified with the Democratic Party? To me the Democratic Parity equates to stupid, undereducated, selfish, greedy for other peoples’ money citizens.
Crowd herd tribalism fueled by ignorant emotionalism with underlying racist tones. Not unlike the propagandized, ignorant worshippers of Dear Leader in North Korea-—seriously!
Well, on the positive side, she's not going to be alive for very long, not at that advanced age.
In reaching out to the so-called black community as Romney did its damned if you do and damned if you dont. What a conundrum. I say as painful as it is, do continue to make occasional outreach visits like this. Maybe you open a few blinded eyes in the process but they can never claim he didnt reach out. Let the chips fall where they may and their responsible for their own reactions.
Responsibility is not something taught in the ‘black community’, sadly.
Whites are not welcome in black neighborhoods? Ok.
And how many smokes were passed out? Oh wait, this is Philly - how many blunts?
Imagine the reaction of the MSM if Obama visited a white neighborhood and was heckled to get out?
Very few of them have the gumption required to improve their lot in life, and so, they pass it on, generation to generation. It can be done, if an individual chooses. Tough, but doable.
Exacltly my feeling
This CANNOT be racist!
It’s impossible to be a racist, if being Racist-While-Democrat.
Just ask ANYONE at MSNBC/NBC/ABC/CBS/CNN/NPR/Pacifica/NYTimes
“i find it hilarious when anyone on the right tries to court the black vote.
do they honestly believe blacks, as a majority, will vote for anyone other then the black guy giving them handouts?”
I believe the best approach is to tell the truth, and to challenge the ‘dogma’ the left has been peddling for decades that has wrapped up the black vote for them.
Black children who come from traditional homes and who go to schools in which they aren’t looked down upon for ‘trying to be white’ do just fine, and don’t need any help ‘competing with white students’. I don’t care what color you are, if you have to grow up in the social settings that many black children do, then you are going to have a higher probability of academic and life problems. It’s much easier to blame ‘slavery’, or ‘white privilege’, or some other b.s. than it is to roll up your sleeves and fix the enormous inner city social issues.
Madaline G. Dunn
WashPost’s Henderson, Rucker Pass Off Political Activist As Mere Elderly Anti-Romney ‘Protester’
By Ken Shepherd | May 25, 2012 | 17:00
In a May 25 front-page story headlined “Romney’s outreach meets hostile reception,” Washington Post staff writers Nia-Malika Henderson and Philip Rucker passed off a political activist by the name of Madaline G. Dunn as simply being a 78-year-old “protester” who has lived in West Philadelphia for 50 years and was “personally offended” by the fact that “Romney would visit her neighborhood.”
“It’s not appreciated here.... It’s absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage,” Henderson and Rucker quoted Dunn. Yet what the Post staff writers left out is that Dunn is no otherwise-apolitical resident who happened to be on hand to react to Romney’s campaign swing. She’s a seasoned political activist, having served as the legislative committee chair for the Philadelphia Congress of the National Congress of Black Women (PCNCBW).
:http://newsbusters.org/category/people/madaline-g-dunn#ixzz1w69Pqp8r
Why couldn’t you have just picked it yourself?
I’m neither a rabid fan nor a rabid hater of Romney, but his naivete in going there makes him look pretty stupid. Couldn’t have been more clueless.
Yes, they are that stupid. Waste of time.
“He should take their advice: Get the hell out.”
Yup. Definitely a message being sent here, with important lessons to be learned. Republicans in general, and FR members here, would be wise to take heed...
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