Posted on 07/11/2012 4:40:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
HOUSTON - NAACP officials described Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's morning address to the nation's most prestigious civil rights group as demeaning and insulting.
A three-quarters full auditorium greeted Romney with lukewarm applause, but the atmosphere quickly grew increasingly tense as Romney made the case that President Obama's economic policies have not helped the black community. He cited the jump in unemployment among African Americans from 13.6 percent to 14.4 percent in June.
"If equal opportunity in America were an accomplished fact, then a chronically bad economy would be equally bad for everyone," Romney told the civil rights group's annual gathering. "Instead, it's worse for African Americans in almost every way."
Clayola Brown, the member of the NAACP's National Board of Directors who invited Romney to speak, said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should not have used unemployment numbers to try to turn the crowd against Obama.
"It was insensitive and quite demeaning as a matter of fact," Brown told The Washington Examiner after Romney exited the stage. "Certainly we are aware of what the numbers are and the impact is in our communities. It's the dialogue used that we find insulting."
Brown said the point of inviting Romney to the convention wasn't to give him a chance to win over African American voters who overwhelmingly backed Obama in 2008 and are expected to vote for him again this fall. Instead, Romney was invited to "show respect to the organization," she said.
Another board member, Amos Brown, of San Francisco, called Romney's address, "an insult to the NAACP," including his references to the importance of family.
"For him to come here and lecture us about the family - he doesn't need to be talking to Negros about that," Brown said. "Who tore up the family?"
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How DARE Romney speak to blacks as equals! /sarcasm
Welfare handouts did much damage to families.
Why he would go to a highly racist organization like that is beyond me. It’s as much as accepting their racial exclusive bias. It’s a disgusting organization with a hate-whitey mentality.
Is that all? Romney should have called them all racists to their faces. Then walked off the stage giving them the finger...It's not like he is going to get the racist vote...
>>”It was insensitive and quite demeaning as a matter of fact,” Brown told The Washington Examiner after Romney exited the stage. “Certainly we are aware of what the numbers are and the impact is in our communities. It’s the dialogue used that we find insulting.”<<
“We blacks are easily offended by facts that point out how bad Our Dear Leader has been for us.
“Next time kiss our collective @sses while screwing us like klinton and Dear Leader”
Why would Romney even dignify that group with his presence....they don’t represent all blacks, they are irrelevant, and Romney should have showed them just how irrelevant they are by not even bothering to show up.
“For him to come here and lecture us about the family - he doesn’t need to be talking to Negros about that,” Brown said. “Who tore up the family?”
Good question! I don’t think Mr. Brown would like to hear the truth on that, but it’s a good question.
The mob gave him a standing ovation. So there ya go.
Too bad he didn’t mention that the first president of the NAACP was a white Republican.
Democrats, and you'll vote for them.
Proper handling of deestructive, divisive,thieving black racists if you ask me.
Oh, you know who, Mr. Brown. You'd just prefer not to say.
“There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.” - Booker T. Washington
I find the NAACP demeaning and insulting.
I really hope they keep it up. They have been played for total fools. Don’t they realize that Romney is gaining more support from this than losing any?
“Demeaning?” “Insulting?”
Go f**k yourselves, losers!;)
I didn’t hear the speech, but it sounds like instead of pandering to them, he said some things that needed to be heard. If that is true, then good for Romney.
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