*”We need Mitt Romney!”
That’s how a new Mitt Romey campaign ad ends that’s targeting African Americans.
However, the problem is the ad is built on a lie. it takes footage from his appearance at the recent NAACP convention and edits it so it appears that the audience is applauding him and giving him a standing ovation for his speech as he was delivering it.
That’s not how it went down.
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while there was polite, muted applause at various points during Romney’s speech, there was prolonged jeering when he said he would repeal President Obama’s signature healthcare law, followed by loud boos and snickering when he told the audience “If you want a president who will make things better in the African American community, you’re looking at him.”
Once again Romney has taken reality and distorted it just like he took President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” comments out of context. Check out the ad below.
THE POWER OF LEADERSHIP
When President Obama endorsed same-sex marriage in May, he changed the world for the good. Real leadership has that amazing power. The President’s courageous stand encouraged some of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation to follow suit. The NAACP, LULAC and NCLR, to name a few. And whole communities have begun to evolve on the question of Gay Rights. Witness how the polls radically changed in the African American community in mere days after the President Obama made his announcement.
I deal with this issue of “evolving” on the question of Gay Rights in my just-released novel THE REVEREND VIOLA FLOWERS (available at Amazon), where my heroine is conflicted about what position she and her church should take on this same issue. Rev. Flowers’ cherished dream is to lead her small gospel church to respectability in mainstream religious circles. Every day her religious views are evolving, but are they evolving fast enough for issues like homosexuality and same-sex marriage? Would her evangelical congregation follow her? Even before she was born, her grandfather, the founder and bishop of her church, had taught his flock not to wander too far a field because the secular world was a dangerous place for real God-fearing people like them, and he distrusted mainstream churches. Also has Rev. Viola Flowers evolved enough in her personal life to handle the fact that she might still be in love with a man other than her husband?
I believe it is safe to say that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) as organizations had to wrestle with this selfsame issue before evolving enough to take that historical vote endorsing Gay Rights. Now it’s time for all Americans, particularly African Americans, to evolve on this issue, especially the Black Church which is Rev. Flowers‘ particular challenge.