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| HOUSTON (TheSkunk.org) — In a speech Wednesday (7/11/12) to the annual NAACP leadership convention, Mitt Romney opened by greeting the crowd with the phrase “Hakuna Matada.” The audience reacted with curious bewilderment, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee smiled and gave the “thumbs up” sign. |
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NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE (NAACP)
From The Biographical Dictionary of the Left by Francis X. Gannon, 1969
"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all the privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercises of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house." These were the words of Booker T. Washington- Negro educator, a native Virginian born in slavery, and founder of Tuskegee Institute.
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