I listened to Mitt Romney's speech at the NAACP the other day. He had a lot of his facts right. Black unemployment is worse than white unemployment. But I don't see strategies to address this.
Many African-Americans are pro-life. But I don't think they want "Personhood".
Lots of black people are upset with Obama, claiming that the didn't do enough SPECIFICALLY for us. And he didn't. He didn't pour money into urban sectors. He didn't attend more national black functions. He didn't cozy up with the Congressional Black Caucus. He didn't champion DC statehood. He didn't do enough to address the horrible incarceration rates of black men, or champion their ability to vote after having served their time.
But, as Al Sharpton points out, the things he did for AMERICA have benefitted us.
I'm a left leaning moderate feminist, so Romney has no appeal for me. And I know plenty of black Republicans who are defending Romney, so the "0%" is only statistical, not 0.00000%.
But we know when someone is not in our court. Romney believes that the poor are already well taken care of by social services. Social services that he'd like to cut. A lot of us are poor. And Romney obviously is not courting the poor. His belief in "the Middle Class" is very real. He ONLY wants to help the folks in the middle. As though no one at the bottom votes.
Romney is a fool when it comes to our needs, and he doesn't deserve our vote. Black president or not.
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