Thursday, November 29, 2007
Bill Crosby the authority on family values
This morning I was watching The View while I was getting ready for school. The ladies were giving a recap of the "YouTube" Republican presidential debate.
They showed a clip of Mitt Romney answering a question from two African American men (one older the other younger). The younger one asked, "I want to ask you guys a question. I notice you spent billions of dollars on the war in Iraq every year. But what about the war going on in our country, black on black crime? 200 to 400 black men die yearly in one city alone. What are you going to do about that war? It feels like the Taliban is right outside."
Mitt Romney's response was unbelievable. I also thought it was a classic stereotypical response. This is what Romney said, "Well, first of all, Francis is pretty fortunate because he’s got a dad standing next to him that apparently loves him by all appearances there. That’s probably the best thing you can do for a kid is have a mom and a dad. [applause] It’s time in this country that we go back to the kind of values that allow kids to have moms and dads. In the African American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock. And so we’re going to try, once again to reinculcate in this country a kind of values that have made us strong, family values. Secondly-Well, one, about the war in the inner city, number one, is to get more moms and dads, that’s number one. And thank heavens Bill Cosby said it like it was. That’s where the root of crime starts."
Okay, I have all sorts of problems with this response from Romney, but I'm just going to stick to the one that applies to the topic of our blog, "minority portrayal." Romney uses Bill Crosby as a "supportive and authoritative" reference that the the solution to "black on black" crime is to make sure black kids have a mom and a dad.
Romney also framed his answer with a statistic (68 percent of African American kids are born out of wedlock). I don't know but, maybe Romney should talk to the single African American mothers that are working 2 to 3 jobs to provide for their kids and make sure they pay the bills and put food on the table. ¶ posted by Anonymous at 7:53 PM •
They showed a clip of Mitt Romney answering a question from two African American men (one older the other younger). The younger one asked, "I want to ask you guys a question. I notice you spent billions of dollars on the war in Iraq every year. But what about the war going on in our country, black on black crime? 200 to 400 black men die yearly in one city alone. What are you going to do about that war? It feels like the Taliban is right outside."
Mitt Romney's response was unbelievable. I also thought it was a classic stereotypical response. This is what Romney said, "Well, first of all, Francis is pretty fortunate because he’s got a dad standing next to him that apparently loves him by all appearances there. That’s probably the best thing you can do for a kid is have a mom and a dad. [applause] It’s time in this country that we go back to the kind of values that allow kids to have moms and dads. In the African American community today, 68 percent of kids born are born out of wedlock. And so we’re going to try, once again to reinculcate in this country a kind of values that have made us strong, family values. Secondly-Well, one, about the war in the inner city, number one, is to get more moms and dads, that’s number one. And thank heavens Bill Cosby said it like it was. That’s where the root of crime starts."
Okay, I have all sorts of problems with this response from Romney, but I'm just going to stick to the one that applies to the topic of our blog, "minority portrayal." Romney uses Bill Crosby as a "supportive and authoritative" reference that the the solution to "black on black" crime is to make sure black kids have a mom and a dad.
Romney also framed his answer with a statistic (68 percent of African American kids are born out of wedlock). I don't know but, maybe Romney should talk to the single African American mothers that are working 2 to 3 jobs to provide for their kids and make sure they pay the bills and put food on the table. ¶ posted by Anonymous at 7:53 PM •