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.
...and they didn’t throw their shoes at him, either!
Why even dignify them by going there in the first place...the NAA(L)CP is an irrelevant organization that does not speak for the vast majority of “colored” people.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/mitt-romney-naacp-speech_n_1664343.html#comments
Look at these delusional freaks. Damn i hate these libs!
In my opinion, Romney did a good job. It was no barn-burning speech, but he also did not pander. He pointed out the debt problem, education problems, how having children before completing education and getting married relates statistically to poverty, his intention to repeal Obamacare, etc. He told them he had no hidden agenda, and that creating jobs was his number one priority.
You don’t have to change minds, but softening motivation works too. If different blocs of voters predisposed to vote for Obama simply don’t seen Romney as “scary”, then they might not work so hard, might not put in the same number of hours or feel motivated to give as much money, or cheat etc.
I think this type message really could be geared toward latinos and work.
I did not hear the speech so am not sure he mentioned it, but the elephant in the room is the undercurrent of renewed suspicion and outright hatred in this country between racial communities. It is most blatant among blacks, but a lot of white people who four years ago were still trying to be sympathetic to the situation of the black community have had enough of being hated, threatened, and attacked. I haven’t seen overt racial division like this since the 1960’s and Obama, Holder, and their allies have been doing everything in their power to stir it up.
LOL - that’s a positive. I don’t like Romney at all and don’t want to vote for him (but I will), but his speech was pretty good. He needs to get out more and tell people how he is different than Obama (not that I think he is by much). Doesn’t seem like he is really campaigning. What is he doing with all that money he has raised?
20% of the White middle class that voted for Obama in 2008 say they will now vote for Romney. If the other 80% of the White middle class that voted for Obama would switch to Romney, then the need for Black support becomes moot. Romney would win in a landslide, and owe NOTHING to certain minority groups.
Many barriers remain. (Understatement of political year)
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as long as folks remain slaves to lies, here is no true hope.. or change possible.
My African American brothers and sisters need to open their eyes. The Democrat Party has been screwing them forever. The Dems held them under Jim Crow laws for years, but worse, the Dems have kept them enslaved through entitlements and special treatment since the 1960s.
The text of the speech looked good on paper, wondering whether those black clan members stayed tuned in during Romney’s speech.
The one rough spot was the booing when he said that he would scrap Obamacare. He stood there smiling while they got it out of their system then kept the smile as he explained that his number one job will be jobs --- and obamacare is a job killer. He won the point.
There's always PETA, NOW and the Sierra Club . . .
Yeah, he wouldn't want to lose that 2%...............
It’s a no-win situation with the NAACP...if you don’t speak to them.
, you’re a “racist”, and if you do speak to them and you don’t say exactly what they want to hear, you’re still a “racist”. But, at least he had the wherewithall to do it. You can lead a herd of sheep to water, but you can’t make them drink...at least without spiking the water with a generous supply of gub’mint handouts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dEByrz4lu24#!
Link to booing.
But I give romney a ton of credit for going there.
He showed tons of balls today.
Initially my reaction to him speaking to the NAACP was that he should not waste his time.
I now believe that Romney is pretty sharp and what he did was not only very smart it showed some stones too.
Initially my reaction to him speaking to the NAACP was that he should not waste his time.
I now believe that Romney is pretty sharp and what he did was not only very smart it showed some stones too.
I doubt it. The Black KKK (poster boy Jesse Jackson) and the Dems have been in bed for decades. There's a lot of cotton to be picked in that fertile Democrat Party field. The Dems along with the Black KKK have picked an insidious way to addict the African Americans to remain enslaved: make them totally dependent.
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