You may not have understood Romney horrible speech, but it's pretty simple what he was doing... [View all]
He was merely Whitesplaining the positions of Black People BACK to a group of Black People.
Everything Romney said was done in a way that some average White guy who actually doesn't care about the concerns of Blacks in general is supposed to understand about what "decent" Black People are supposed to stand for in this country.
That's something that's only done by a person who has absolutely no desire to connect with his audience. It wasn't even as good a job of pandering that he normally gives to the audiences that he addresses. It's clear that he didn't think that the NAACP was even worth that effort this time.
His point was that, if Black People refused to give him any credit for his fucked up positions, then Blacks as a whole won't find any favor were he to win the White House. I really don't know enough about him to automatically assume that he's too obtuse in actually thinking that he could actually pull something like that off. But, if he did, then he really has no idea what Blacks are like.
Other than showing his pale ass off to Blacks for the benefit of his racist Right Wing base, I have no idea why Romney gave that speech in the first place.
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