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In his speech, which was excerpted in the Journal, Perry said that President Obama “cannot be proud of the fact that the prevalence of black poverty has actually increased under his leadership”.
Perry made a bid for the White House in 2012, but is not considered to be a frontrunner in the current race and is believed to be trailing competitors Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and likely candidate Scott Walker in lining up big-money backers for his campaign.
He’s promoting policies aimed at African-Americans, including education reform and sentencing laws that keep nonviolent drug offenders out of prison. It’s time for Republicans to go into African-American communities with our proposals to revive those communities, since the Democrats, who have been in near total control of them for decades, have failed utterly with their approach.
No Republican has won more than 15 percent of the black vote in a presidential election since 1960. We must engage, be the party of Lincoln once again, start supporting the 14th Amendment (“equal protection”) as well as the states-rights oriented 10th.
Perry is among the dozen-plus Republicans competing for the nomination.
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“Because of his own agenda of lower taxes and creating an economic climate that is friendly to business, he said, “African Americans are moving out of cities such as Detroit, Chicago, and Baltimore” and moving to cities such as Houston and Dallas”.
