African-Americans Nowhere to Be Found in Romney’s Orbit

[Lakhota]

by Harry Siegel , Ben Jacobs

Romney’s problem isn’t that blacks aren’t buying his message but that he's hardly bothered to offer it to them.

After a long primary season, Mitt Romney begins his contest with Barack Obama without having attracted any notable black endorsers, surrogates, or high-ranking campaign staffers.

So far, Romney’s highest-profile endorsement from a black supporter might be Aubrey Fenton, a former Burlington County New Jersey freeholder, and there are no African-Americans in the top ranks of the campaign. The two black Republicans in Congress, Tim Scott and Allan West, still haven’t endorsed the party’s nominee-apparent. The Romney campaign, which often touts its support from Hispanics, women, and other groups, did not provide any information about black supporters or staffers in response to several requests from The Daily Beast.

“This is clearly a blind spot, perhaps because Romney’s generation of Mormons grew up in an all-white world.” ​

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[Lakhota]

Has Romney ever had even ONE black friend? I doubt it...