I have been trying to wrap my head around what benefit he would get by speaking in this hostile environment. After hearing all of the race baiters and Obama apologists out there, I think I get it.
Basically a brilliant move to show that he is concerned about the plight of the african american who is being pigeon holed into poverty by handouts that they gladly accept and become reliant on.

Sometimes the truth hurts and the NAACP has become complicit in its empowerment of the nanny state. They should be all hands on deck trying to solve the problem of minority poverty and unemployment, yet when faced with th truth, they boo and lash out to the bootlicking liberal media. shameful really.
A few examples:

If I were a political cynic, I’d wonder whether the Romney campaign wanted to be booed at NAACP. After the speech, Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta, an Obama supporter, said that was exactly the point. Romney’s aim, he said, was to appear as a bold leader who could tell hard truths. “I think his statement was more a political stunt,” Reed said.

Julian Bond, the noted civil rights leader and former head of the NAACP, echoed the legislators, telling HuffPost, “He is definitely not his father.” Bond said he did not see Romney’s appearance as genuine outreach to the African American community.
“He went there to bait us,” Bond said. He argued that Romney deliberately sparked boos by referring to “Obamacare,” which Bond said many African Americans regard as pejorative.
“He wanted to be able to go to some of the independents he needs to get elected and tell them, ‘See? I stood up to the Negroes,’” Bond said.

Last night on MSNBC, host Lawrence O’Donnell said that Romney’s NAACP speech was part of a Republican ‘southern strategy’ used to appeal to ‘racial and racist voting.’ Speaking to TheGrio.com’s Goldie Taylor, O’Donnell said, “Tell me, Goldie, if I’m being too cynical, to think that the Romney campaign actually went in that room today with the hope of getting booed, at least three times, because they want the video of their candidate being booed by the NAACP to play in certain racist precincts where that will actually help them.”

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that Mitt Romney made a “calculated move” to get booed during his address earlier in the day before the NAACP.

“I think it was a calculated move on his part to get booed at the NAACP convention,” she told Bloomberg TV.

Clayola Brown, the member of the NAACP’s National Board of Directors who invited Romney to speak, said the presumptive Republican presidential nominee should not have used unemployment numbers to try to turn the crowd against Obama.

“It was insensitive and quite demeaning as a matter of fact,” Brown told The Washington Examiner after Romney exited the stage. “Certainly we are aware of what the numbers are and the impact is in our communities. It’s the dialogue used that we find insulting.”