Romney Scheduled to Speak at NAACP Next Month
The NAACP announced today that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney will address its national convention next month.
Every four years, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights group invites the Democratic and Republican presidential nominee to speak. In 2008, both Barack Obama and John McCain addressed the NAACP.
In years past, however, Republicans and the NAACP have sometimes had rocky relations. Bob Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential nominee, declined the group’s invitation. George W. Bush spoke to the NAACP in 2000 but then skipped its annual convention for five years while he was president.
When Bush finally did attend the NAACP convention as a sitting president, the Republican pledged to improve relationships between black voters and the GOP.
“I consider it a tragedy that the party of Abraham Lincoln let go of its historical ties with the African-American community,” Mr. Bush said at that time. “For too long, my party wrote off the African-American vote, and many African-Americans wrote off the Republican Party.”
NAACP President Ben Jealous said his organization is looking forward to hearing from Romney.
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Educate yourselves and dont believe lies. Why are we listening to anyrhing Romney has to say.he only supports white rich people. Pray and vote.
It wouldn’t matter what Romney say at the NAACP. He and his pRepublican party want nothing to with the Black community. As he has proven that he isn’t concern with the poor and we all know that most black people are the poor so it wouldn’t matter anyway.
Don’t fault the guy for being rich. He may even be a nice person, but face it he will say anything to get to be president. He has never been concerned with The People.. Black or white This has
been well documented in his business ventures.
His appearance was to give his base red meat. He copied this from McCain. And the president feel right into the trap by sending Biden, a his veep and surrogate to address the oldest Black civil rights organization. The president and his advisers are taking blacks for granted.