Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell filleted Mitt Romney over his contention that (in Romney's words), education is the "civil rights issue of our era". No, Mitt. Civil rights were the civil rights issue of your era.
Back on May 23rd, CNN reported that Romney went to the Latino Coalition at a US Chamber of Commerce event and said that millions of American children were getting a "third-world education", and that "This is the civil rights issue of our era".
In the "Rewrite", O'Donnell just goes after it.
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He says that maybe Romney would have a point if he'd been born, say in 1990. But Romney was born in 1947, and came of age during the fight for civil rights in our country. But where was Romney during this time? Out marching with Martin Luther King with his father, who also didn't march with MLK despite Romney's lies about it? Nope. Taking part publicly in any march, demonstration, event to advance the cause? No.
We also know nothing of the actions (if any) that Romney took as a leader in the Mormon Church to reverse the racism of the Church that up until 1978 (when Romney was 31) forbade black men from the priesthood and also banned black men and women from taking part in some temple ceremonies.
This was a pretty epic take-down of Romney, especially because of O'Donnell's icy delivery.