Romney Receives Standing Ovation for Straight Talk at NAACP Convention

Townhall.com ^ | July 11, 2012 | Katie Pavlich

[GlockThe Vote]

Some of these posters act on this board in a way they never would in an in-person discussion.

[Puzzleman]

It’s almost impossible to find video of Romney’s standing ovation. At the end of this clip you’ll see a small part of it. Here’s the link: http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=12016

[mdmathis6]

No it was done to show other voting blocks just what liberal communists the NAACP happen to be and exposes the racial divide and conquer strategy of the Dem’s. The NAACP looked really bad and independent voters will note it. It also dilutes the old “white republicans are racists because they never go speak to the NAACP during the election year” club that past republicans have been beaten over the head with!
It showed strength frankly...but strength to what end I am not sure. Romney is Nixonian in his duplicity and I’m not sure about his true inner motives.

[mdmathis6]

I suspect that in some folks minds the “pandering”, if there was any at all, had more to do with the fact that Romney simply went to the NAACP convention. Just showing up there meant that he was pandering. I don’t agree with with that sentiment...just putting it out there.

[betty boop]

I'm not a subscriber to white guilt syndrome. And I'm not susceptible to race baiting. That crapola don't work on me. Maybe you'll have better luck on someone else.~

It's really sweet of you, CaptainCrunch, to impute the charge of "race baiting" to me. Not to mention that I am absolutely immune to "white guilt syndrome."

One can "delve into the statistics of IQ according to race," as The Bell Curve did. But that work tells you more about the manipulation of statistics than it does about what is really going on WRT actual human beings.

IOW, IQ and achievement may not be as closely correlated as one might think. There are plenty of high-IQ "bums" in this world. There are also plenty of relatively low-IQ people who take responsibility for their lives and thus are capable of achieving some degree of personal success in our society. I also suppose that undereducated people will be left fairly clueless about how to conduct a decent life, without regard to their IQ score.

What I do see from observation and experience is that American Blacks who have shed the Plantation Mentality do very well in our society. These are people who do not consign themselves to permanent underclass status, a status that represents itself as deserving of endless taxpayer-funded subsidies, up to and including reparations — cash payments — because once the institution of human chattel slavery existed in this country. It doesn't matter that nobody alive today was involved in this pernicious institution, neither as slaves nor slave owners. Plantation Mentality Blacks want to be compensated for "sufferings" as slaves which they have not themselves ever suffered.

To me, the greatest irony of all time is that it was the Republican Party that liberated the slaves (Abraham Lincoln), and guaranteed them equal protection under the Constitution (13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments). The Democrat Party fought this tooth and nail for the next 100 years ("separate but 'equal'") — until Lyndon Johnson cynically recognized these "n*ggers" were also voters and, as such, could be "bought" and paid for from taxpayer funds, in the service of Democrat power and ideological goals. As a result of his "Great Society" programs, today the overwhelming majority of American Blacks vote Democrat. And the Democrat politicians teach their constituents to hate the liberators of their own people — that is, the Republicans. In effect, the Dems are recruiting free men to voluntarily "go back to the Plantation," where they will be "cared for" and "protected."

Also, the Black family has been utterly destroyed by Johnson's policies. Something like 73% of Black births are to single mothers trying to qualify for "social benefits." This has led to a culture of male irresponsibility in the Black community, which has deprived children of the indispensable Father figure in their upbringing. (Not to mention the increase in crime rates — gang-related and other — within Black inner-city communities.)

But where we find intact Black families, we tend to find people just as prosperous as the rest of non-Black American society.

The main problem here — it seems to me — is the Plantation Mentality. This is cultivated at least two ways:

The inner-city public schools do not teach American history; they teach the politics of grievance. Indeed, this is a main theme even in more upscale school districts nowadays.

That this practice continues, I attribute mainly to two things: (1) Left Progressive "political correctness" (the very "doctrine" of the public-school teachers unions); and (2) race-baiters like the Reverends Wright, Jackson, and Sharpton — whose siren song is that American Blacks are always being cheated by the non-Black surrounding society, and therefore are entitled to "restitution" at the expense of non-Black society. This is a deliberate promotion of endless race war....

What really kills me is the unstated premise that underlies both the performance of the public schools and the race-baiters: That Black Americans NEED to "go back to the Plantation" — NEED to be "protected" by government — BECAUSE they really CANNOT fend for themselves without outside help. From TAXPAYERS.

Thus we have a "self-fulfilling prophecy."

Yet again, American Blacks who have shed the Plantation Mentality routinely succeed in American society on all standards of measurement: intact families, rising prosperity, individual achievement, etc.

Well, them be my thoughts on this subject, FWTW.

Thanks so much for writing, CaptainKrunch!

[ThirstyMan]

democrats then/democrats now

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Democrat_Rights_1961_2012.png

[ThirstyMan]

democrats then/democrats now

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/SeniorChieftain/Democrat_Rights_1961_2012.png

[Alamo-Girl]

The main problem here — it seems to me — is the Plantation Mentality. This is cultivated at least two ways:

The inner-city public schools do not teach American history; they teach the politics of grievance. Indeed, this is a main theme even in more upscale school districts nowadays.

That this practice continues, I attribute mainly to two things: (1) Left Progressive "political correctness" (the very "doctrine" of the public-school teachers unions); and (2) race-baiters like the Reverends Wright, Jackson, and Sharpton — whose siren song is that American Blacks are always being cheated by the non-Black surrounding society, and therefore are entitled to "restitution" at the expense of non-Black society. This is a deliberate promotion of endless race war....

What really kills me is the unstated premise that underlies both the performance of the public schools and the race-baiters: That Black Americans NEED to "go back to the Plantation" — NEED to be "protected" by government — BECAUSE they really CANNOT fend for themselves without outside help. From TAXPAYERS.

Precisely!

Thank you so much for your wonderful essay-posts, dearest sister in Christ!