Posted on 07/11/2012 8:19:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Romney to NAACP: Obama made it worse for you 'in almost every way' By Jonathan Easley - 07/11/12 10:01 AM ET
Mitt Romney will tell the NAACP on Wednesday that President Obama has made it worse for African-Americans “in almost every way.”
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone,” Romney will say, according to prepared remarks provided by his campaign. “Instead, it’s worse for African-Americans in almost every way. The unemployment rate, the duration of unemployment, average income and median family wealth are all worse for the black community.”
While Obama leads Romney 92 percent to 2 among black voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday, Romney hopes his economic pitch will resonate with a group that has been disproportionately affected by the economic downturn. He's made a similar appeal to other voting blocs, such as Hispanics and women.
Romney will acknowledge the historic nature of Obama’s 2008 campaign, in which he became the country’s first black president, but will also make the case for his own candidacy.
"I believe that if you understood who I truly am in my heart, and if it were possible to fully communicate what I believe is in the real, enduring best interest of African-American families, you would vote for me for president," the presumptive GOP nominee will say. "I want you to know that if I did not believe that my policies and my leadership would help families of color — and families of any color — more than the policies and leadership of President Obama, I would not be running for president."
He also will make the argument that Obama’s economic policies are creating similar barriers to those that civil rights activists fought hard to remove.
“If someone had told us in the 1950s or '60s that a black citizen would serve as the 44th president, we would have been proud and many would have been surprised,” Romney will say. “Picturing that day, we might have assumed that the American presidency would be the very last door of opportunity to be opened. Before that came to pass, every other barrier on the path to equal opportunity would surely have to come down.
“Of course, it hasn’t happened quite that way. Many barriers remain. Old inequities persist. In some ways, the challenges are even more complicated than before. And across America — and even within your own ranks — there are serious, honest debates about the way forward.”
The former Massachusetts governor will cite unemployment among African-Americans, which at 14.4 percent is well above the national average of 8.2.
“I am running for president because I know that my policies and vision will help hundreds of millions of middle-class Americans of all races, will lift people from poverty, and will help prevent people from becoming poor,” Romney will say. “My campaign is about helping the people who need help. The course the president has set has not done that — and will not do that. My course will.”
Romney will also focus on education, which earlier in the primary season he referred to as “the civil rights issue of our era.” Romney says he will “give the parents of every low-income and special-needs student the chance to choose where their child goes to school,” and will link federal education funds to the student, which he says will open the opportunity for children of poor families to attend charter and private schools.
“If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, black families could send their sons and daughters to public schools that truly offer the hope of a better life,” Romney will say. “Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept. Today, black children are 17 percent of students nationwide — but they are 42 percent of the students in our worst-performing schools.”
Obama will not address the NAACP convention this year, but Vice President Biden is scheduled to speak on Thursday.
I’ll bet Biden tries to pull out a black voice, like Reverend Al Gore or Hillary “I ain’t no ways tired” Clinton.
I guess I just don’t understand the Black perspective as you do, but I’m not Black either. You and many other Black
people should spend more time around Whites...even rich Whites and you’d learn that we’re not all haters as you suggest. No need to call us “Whitey” or other disparaging comments.
Cringe threat level red. Political pandering turned up to 11. Yikes.
But comes time in the voting booth, they do in general vote lock-step straight D tickets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY As for you, it’s either this or riding a Segway ~ same smile I am sure.
You have a strange way understanding what I wrote.
Anyway the ‘anger’ is misplaced.
You gotta' be kidding. Way back when Leroy Warren and Kwaisi Mfune took over they sort of anticipated this problem
The organ stings were strange. Did the NAACP do them when Holder spoke? If not, were they signaling Mitt to get off the stage?
“Obama leads Romney 92 percent to 2 among black voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll”
Even Saddam would have been envious of those numbers. I guess minority racial bias is even more effective than threats of torture in chalking up votes.
Doesn't need it. Mittens only needs 4-5% to sit on their hands this time around...and he's halfway there...
By “Confederacy” do you mean the Slaver Revolt?
There was no federal power grab or tyranny in 1860.
The truth is that “African-Americans”
Yes he did. All those years of having doors shut in his face, he's gotten something out of it. He knows how to keep going in the face of adversity. And the Amish need some leading, God help them...
What is an ABR?
Obama got a double bonus:
1. The unions sent him campaign $$$$$.
2. Tim Scott, black Republican Conservative Congressman from Charleston County got kicked in the teeth.
Obama cares? About what??? Obama KNEW the mainstream press would look the other way, ...and the Press Suckup Puppets performed as scheduled!
“Anybody But Romney” including Obama himself.
W spoke to the NAACP convention in 2000. Evidently Reagan didn't go as a candidate but went in 1981. It's a grand tradition for Republicans go to and be attacked for their efforts.
You are right on. Black Americans are living with blinders on on. They are sinking further into the abyss of failure. Simple: Folks, there is no such thing as a free lunch, there is no such thing as an Obama Stash, there is no such thing as freedom without assimilation into general American society. Black leaders from Obama on down have destroyed their own people in their quest for Black and political power!!! Won’t work, ever!!!
Blacks, need to become real Americans like Hispanics, Asians, Italians, Irish, Jews, German, etc. Maintaining one’s history and culture is certainly important, but being a true American takes priority. As long as Black Americans remain adrift at sea, and out of the American mainstream, following leaders that could care less about their progress in education and jobs, they are going nowhere. A Black person voting for Obama is just plain and simple wasting their vote. The jive and race game is over. Get real Black folk, America is you ticket to freedom and progress, not your biased Black brothers and sisters like Obama his America hating wife, Michelle!!!
Romney gave an excellent speech.
I prefer the ‘TRUTH’ to pandering.
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