Whose fault is it that blacks drop out of school?

Black teens lead the country in unemployment. Is it because whites bosses discriminate against them, or is it because they won't learn to speak recognizable English, won't learn math, dress in baggy clothing, have tattoos all over their body, and don't really know much about manners either. (Well, come to that, neither do white teens.) It is sad and a little frightening that the black community can not see that they bring their problems on themselves by refusing to embrace middle classness, and excoriating those in their community who do - or at least try to!

RUSH: How many of you have often thought, often believed that if the Republicans would make some real genuine outreach effort to the black community and just get three to five percent of the black vote, if we could do that, that would end it? A lot of people believe that. And the rule of thumb, standard operating procedure, opinion is that Republicans just never make the effort. They don't know how. Outreach to the African-American community, they don't do it. They should try it. Well, Romney did. Romney went to Philadelphia. The Washington Post has the details.

"When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American children to meet the academic achievements of their white counterparts." What persecution would that be? Persecution of blacks in America. What are we talking about? Affirmative action? What is this persecution that's going on? So Romney goes in for some outreach. This story, by the way, it was in the Washington Post, but it wasn't picked up. It didn't get very much attention.

Let me briefly tell you what happened. Romney goes to this charter school in West Philadelphia. Local officials attending the event lectured him and insulted him. The Obama campaign organized so-called residents to protest across the street from the school where Romney was. They shouted at Romney, and they told him to get out of their neighborhood. Now, I want you to just try to imagine the outrage from our news media if the Romney campaign had organized whites to tell Obama to get out of their neighborhood. But there was no outrage. This story caused none. I mean even the Washington Post sounds amused. They think this was funny, what happened. But you see, apparently the Republicans are damned if they do and damned if they don't.

Not once in this entire article is it ever mentioned that Romney supports school vouchers, which Obama doesn't. It's something you think that local school officials would support as well. The article quotes the mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, as saying that Romney, "Suddenly somehow found West Philadelphia." But Nutter said, "I don’t know that a one-day experience in the heart of West Philadelphia is enough to get you ready to run the United States of America."

Now, that's a little ironic, given that you might think Mayor Nutter would be in hiding after what he and his fellow Democrats have done to that once great city. Then there's a quote from a woman named Madaline Dunn, who said she was "personally offended" that Romney would visit her neighborhood. She said it was, "absolutely denigrating for him to come in here and speak his garbage." Now, who is this babe? Madaline Dunn, she's a longtime Democrat political activist. She has served as a chairwoman for the radical Philadelphia Congress of the National Congress of black women. She's currently listed as one of Obama's Truth Team. This is not in the story. I wanted to find out why was this woman being quoted? I was curious. Who is this woman? The Post doesn't tell us. I found that stuff out on my own. They just portray her as another legitimately and genuinely outraged resident.

The bottom line is, Romney attempting outreach, goes into an inner city school to talk about his education ideas in West Philly and is basically told to get the hell out. "What are you doing here, pal? We don't want you here." It won't be long before we hear some civil rights leader saying, "They don't care about us, the Republicans, they don't care about us. They never reach out. They never try." So it's a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation.