[RightFighter]

Newt Gingrich is not a tin-eared moron on this issue. These are excerpts from an article that appears on his website in response to Barack Obama’s speech on race. While many here would be upset to know that Newt gave Obama a lot of credit for giving that speech, Newt also took the opportunity to issue a rational and thoughtful conservative response to the speech. Here’s some of what he said:

“I do think there’s an authenticity and legitimacy to anger by many groups in America...And I think it’s important to recognize that anger can be a source of energy to create a better future, in which case it’s a good thing. But if anger is a self-inflicted wound that limits us, it is a very bad and a very dangerous thing. And we have to be very careful about the role that anger plays in our culture.”

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“Tragically what has happened is that cultural and political leaders have used anger as an excuse to avoid reality, as an excuse to avoid change, as an excuse to avoid accountability. Because everything that is wrong is somehow somebody else’s fault.”

To balance out ethnic gaps, educational bureaucracy needs to be eliminated. Inner city high school students should be offered the chance to graduate in fewer than four years to avoid being bored. Teachers should push the “drum beat for entrepreneurship,” because historically, ethnic groups have risen by starting their own businesses.

[FreedomPoster]

Good call. That Gingrich piece could be the basis for the message McCain should use.

Well worth reading, for sure.

The Obama Challenge: What is the Right Change to Help All Americans?
Newt Gingrich Speech to the American Enterprise Institute - Televised on C-Span 3/27/3008
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993438/posts

[Sunnyflorida]

“Newt Gingrich is not a tin-eared moron on this issue.”

On a lot of issues. About a month ago on Rush’s show he completely jumped the shark on Global Warming.

[subterfuge]

That message can be delivered as part of televised speeches addressing other major issues facing the country. It can be delivered as part of advertisements in the general media and separately in advertisements in newspapers, magazines and television programs with a black audience.

Here is one of the problems with anyone like Newt "getting the word out". THE MEDIA WON'T COVER IT IF THERE IS A POTENTIAL TO GET MINORITIES OFF OF THE DEM PLANTATION. It just ain't gonna happen. The only time big media will let any positive toward blacks coverage out is when they have an angle they can exploit and demagogue the latest challenger to the status quo.