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Posted on 8/18/2007, 6:31:22 PM by Reaganesque
I guarantee you it’ll be looked back upon as pivotal in terms of Romney’s first run for President down the line in terms of political history.
Keep in mind the following quote:
Mitt Romney on Thursday called the failure of inner city schools “the great civil rights issue of our time.”
This man impresses me more and more every day…
Health Care, Race Relations, Immigration, Education…there isn’t one issue where he’s trumped by another candidate…
LONDONDERRY, N.H. - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday called the failure of inner city schools “the great civil rights issue of our time.”
Taking questions at a music hall, Romney was asked whether he would be capable of improving race relations as president. He said his personal “colorblindness” would be his most important asset.
“I have a real hard time thinking of people other than as people,” he told about 200 people. “I certainly consider myself colorblind. I don’t distinguish people based on their race or their ethnicity or their faith.”
Romney said he would make sure that those with whom he would surround himself in Washington would reflect the nation’s diversity. He said he envisioned calling together a group similar to the “kitchen cabinet” of black citizens he met with regularly as governor of Massachusetts.
“I would anticipate again having a group of folks who represent a diversity of experience and being able to draw on their lives,” he said.
Romney said one of his biggest concerns about race relations involves education.
“I’m really concerned that schools in inner cities are failing our inner city kids — largely minorities — and those kids won’t have the kinds of skills to be able to be successful and competitive in the new market economy,” he said. “The failure of inner city schools, in my view, is the great civil rights issue of our time.”
Romney said he would work hard to improve schools but did not elaborate. When a woman asked him about how he would support arts and music programs that often are the first to be cut from tight school budgets, he said he was wary of too much federal involvement in education.
Recalling fondly his own high school glee club days, Romney said arts and music education spurs creativity that carries over into adulthood. But he said the federal government shouldn’t mandate such programs.
“While it would be tempting to say all schools should have the following programs, that worries me that someday there’d be somebody up there with very different views telling schools what they should and shouldn’t do,” he said. “I’d like to have local school boards recognize that they need to be concentrating of course on English, math and science, but also some of the cultural elements that make us a society of creative individuals.”
gag me with a spoon!
what a liberal whine.
I really like this Reaganesque. It’s so true of the inner city schools. As a former Probation Officer, I have witnessed the failure’s of the public schools first hand, and it has been a concern of mine for years, that and the shrinking two-parent black family. Good for Mitt for taking this on! I’d like to hear more.
It is something similar to what President Bush once said, calling it "soft bigotry." The Dems have counted on the minority vote for too long without offering anything substantive in return. As we all know, it behooves the dems to keep everyone down and out and dependent on the government. I am glad Mitt is calling them on it.
The problem with public education has to do partly with the fact that many times liberals tend to be more into education. The men tend to be afraid of the type of work that men generally do so they are more likely to be college educated. So the schools are infested with poltically correct liberals. The second problem with education is the parents who are living depraved lifestyles. You can’t expect a kid to come to school when he or she is being exposed to the parent’s vile lifestyle. The kids come to school traumatized. I don’t see how another goverment program is going to fix either of the causes I just stated. We must instead expose the Demoratic Party for what they are maybe that will help. Afterall, they are at the root of both problems I just mentioned, they encourage both.
Bookmark.
Mitt Romney calls failing inner-city schools “the great civil rights issue of our time.”
a normal lib/dem code word for more money = higher taxes!!!!
Somebody got a stopwatch to time when the “Romney belongs to a racist religion” argument comes up?
Governor Romney demonstrated his commitment to school-choice by vetoing a bill that would have canceled funding for Massachusetts' charter-school program. (Romney to Veto Charter School Moratorium, June 23, 2004)
"Under Governor Romney's leadership, Massachusetts' fourth and eighth grade students ranked first in reading and tied for first in mathematics. In 2004, Governor Romney helped ensure more students received a higher education by establishing the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program to reward the highest performing Massachusetts high school graduates with a four-year, tuition-free scholarship to state universities or colleges. In three years, more than 14,000 top-scoring high school seniors have been awarded these scholarships." (Mitt Romney Campaign Website | Learn About Mitt | Our Stories | Governor Romney's Record)
Governor Romney strongly supported a successful ballot initiative that replaced the state's bilingual program with English immersion. (Romney Vows to Protect English Immersion Law, May 1, 2003)
Spot-on! Another helping of compassionate-conservatism... get me a barf-bag.
~”However, this could be big in terms of building the Republican base. Blacks and minorities have been sold out, used and abused by the Left in this country for decades and it’s about time someone came along and pointed this out and the quality of education blacks and other minorities are getting from Liberal school systems in the inner city is the perfect place to start.”~
It’s a pipe dream Reaganesque. Battered women don’t usually leave their husbands. Likewise, blacks aren’t going to abandon the Democrat party en masse.
If Republicans ever take a larger percentage of the black vote, it will be a shift over a generation or two, not a single-election event.
***Taking questions at a music hall, Romney was asked whether he would be capable of improving race relations as president. He said his personal “colorblindness” would be his most important asset.***
Intolerance will keep this country alive. I’m not buying
So, why is it that Mitt Romney thinks “federalism” means that any state that wants to can abort babies, in spite of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, but he has no problem with federal government involvement in education, for which there is no constitutional basis whatsoever?
Has he called for the dismemberment of the U.S. Department of Education?
IDK about nation wide, but in NJ, outside a few wards in Newark, Passaic and Camden, almost every failing inner city school has illegal immigrant children as the largest plurality, if not the majority, of the school systems... The poor and working class legal residents of the cities are forced to pay for the failure of the Federal state in their Constitutional duties. Legal residents face higher rents from increased demand and increased property taxes to pay for increased services by black market illegal aliens, lower wages due to artificially increased supply of labor, increased crime, decreased access to government services (including schools), and pretty much a horrible interaction with all government institutions. Since those who pay no taxes and have no permanent stake in the well being of the community treat the “suckers” who still live inside the system as just so much of an annoyance until the legal residents have something the illegals want to steal, and illegals are treating the “law enforcement agencies” and “judicial system” with a greater dose of hard nosed reality than the general public and community leaders, they know the system has failed, is flawed, and the leaders have no interest in fixing it, and that some leaders have vested interests in making sure the system stays broken and corrupt.
Booker and Corzine, most of the state elected representatives and law enforcement brass are spitting in the faces of the legal residents of Newark NJ. The police are literally daring the legal resident populace to arm themselves Constitutionally and morally, but illegally, in the wards of Newark to fight off the two pronged assault of a rampantly corrupt police and judiciary, and an invasion of psychopathic illegal alien invaders.
Can Mitt Romney help? Not likely.
Can Mitt Romney pontificate just like my above response? Absolutely.
It is not an issue of rights. It is an issue of responsibility.
The federal government has no business in the education issue. Romney is once again, attempting to have his cake and eat it too. I suppose the next thing we'll hear from old Mitt is, Reagan was adamantly in favor of federal intervention in a childs education. LOL I'm gaining a strong dislike for this wishy washy, centrist Republican.
Good post.
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