Not bad except for this:
““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. Instead, for generations, the African-American community has been waiting and waiting for that promise to be kept.”
This is nothing but an excuse. I went to the poorest schools that can be imagined. Some were downright laughable. We learned though because we were expected to learn and had good parents who helped us.
The schools these black children go to are crummy because the parents are crummy. The children don’t learn because they aren’t sent and expected to learn and to behave. Instead they act like and are thugs. Their failure is their own fault. It has been a choice made without serious enough consequences.
We have spent trillions and given every advantage and preference possible and still they do poorly as a whole. Romney just supported their excuses for failure, poverty, thuggery and dependence.
The answer to the problem is not more money or more opportunity. The answer is to see failures that put the fear of God in them not to fail.
Of course the participation and communication of parents and teachers is important