Posted on 07/11/2012 2:02:47 PM PDT by Kaslin
Not really - I live in lower Westchester and it is very common in the uber rich areas that they intentionally jack the property taxes way high to give to the public schools to create almost private school like qualities so they can write it off on the taxes and keep others out.
Its not race or class warfare - but the truth. Where I live - you have disasters like mt vernon, new rochelle, yonkers, peekskill, and then you have schools like scarsdale, pelham and bronxville two minutes away and its a drastic difference.
As expected the MSM plays up the negative.
AP Headline at my Yahoo email page:
“Romney says he ‘expected’ NAACP boos”
Excerpt of article at Yahoo email page:
“Mitt Romney says he wasn’t surprised by the negative response to his speech Wednesday before the NAACP convention in Texas. “I think we expected that,” the Republican nominee tells Fox Business Network’s Neil Cavuto in an interview to air Wednesday night. Romney was booed by NAACP audience several times, including when he repeated his pledge [...]”
I thought Romney was excellent and his stock went up in my book too. I wouldn’t be surprised if he helped himself with blacks more than we might know. His tone was just about perfect for that audience.
Hardly pandering.
Romney spoke clearly and intelligently and got a heck of a lot more positive applause for charter schools and defense of marriage than the much hyped and ballyhooed ‘Boo!’s over his desire to repeal ObamaCare.
Romney showed far more class, moxie and integrity than Biden had earlier. Which was entirely pandering and sometimes tacky and racist.
There is nothing at all Mittens can do to ever sway the ABRs at this point.
...And that's the whole point! We all know Romney is a rino, but in the face of Obama's absolute anti-American, anti-capitalist referendum Romney can, at the very least, stop Obama's destruction.
In fact, it would not surprise me if Romney did lean a little more RIGHT as POTUS.
All in all, I liked it. But, I agree with other posters, these people will never vote for a Republican. They would vote for a white Democrat over a black conservative Republican. That is just how it is.
Check out this clip of Obama
Imagine if Romney tried this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT-FLwwWZZQ
Has nothing to do with black or white, middle class whites get the same disasterous schools as blacks.
The places in scarsdale, pelham,. bronxvill, jack the property taxes so high and create essentially private schools out of the public system and then write off the property taxes as opposed to paying for private schooling.
anyone who knows about westchester knows what I am talking about.
Who’s at fault? Teachers unions who perpetuate the status quo. It was a very good and very subtle dig, and attempt to put a wedge between the NAACP crowd and the union crowd.
I wouldn’t really call it pandering. he went up a little in my estimation, still not happy about voting for him but I’ll do it to get rid of the communist we currently have
Forgive me for being obtuse, but: Are you saying that American Blacks generally suffer from a more or less permanent (i.e., genetic) intelligence deficit?
If so, then how do you explain such splendid American thinkers as Frederick Douglas; George Washington Carver; the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,; Associate Justice Clarence Thomas; Thomas Sowell; Walter Williams; Herman Cain; Congressman Allen West; the list goes ON....
I REFUSE the be a "racist," in acknowledging the amazing and irreplaceable achievements of men of this intellectual caliber, and their invaluable contributions to the American self-understanding.
To me, they are all "indispensable public men." I give thanks to God that they exist, or existed.
Last time they voted their race. Perhaps this time a decent percentage will vote their pocket books and brains.
Because I believe he has Obamanation on his heels, now more than ever is time for Mitts to make several stops into the inner city. Even if at the end of the day, 96 percent vote Obama, it will have a lasting effect, specially if Mitts were to win the Presidency.
Leaders lead, visionaries go where others run from. I believe the black community, as all humans do, desire something better and opportunity and a belief system that their really is hope.
Without question, now is the time to reach out to the churche leaders. They are open to Mitts message. It is not a waste of time nor resources.
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