How Romney Finally Got Black People To Like Him

By Elisabeth Parker

Mitt Romney’s supporters may not be able to send President Barack Obama “back to” Kenya, but left-over Romney T-shirts from the 2012 campaign are fair game. Benny Johnson from BuzzFeed gleefully reports that “the Romney campaign is still strong in Africa,” thanks to a serendipitous donation to the Orbit Village project, an orphanage and K-12 school located in Nairobi, Kenya. The Founder of the Tennessee-based charity, Cyndy Waters, told BuzzFeed that the T-shirts came from her nephew, who served as a county director for Romney’s presidential campaign. She then added:

“A T-shirt might seem a small thing to an American teen with a drawer full of many T-shirts, but we work all year collecting clothing, school supplies, and gifts for our students. The gift of several hundred T-shirts and hats from the Romney campaign was a real blessing to us.”

Photo from Orbit Village Project, a Baptist-run orphanage, K-12 school, and evangelical church in Nairobi, Kenya: “Send a child to school, lead a child to Christ.”

This is probably the largest group of young black people we’ll ever see wearing Romney T-shirts and smiling while doing it. Unfortunately for the GOP, these kids are in Africa. It remains highly unlikely that Romney will ever enjoy wide appeal to blacks in the good old US of A,. After all, his Republican party promotes policies that hurt people of color, and his Mormon church only recently granted equal status to black people. Although the gushing BuzzFeed article insists that Waters “will accept any donation of any campaign swag,” we can make a fairly educated guess as to where her political sympathies lie … and not just based on her nephew’s occupation. A quick visit to the Orbit Village Project’s web site reveals that the charity is affiliated with an evangelical Christian group that has “planted” a Baptist church on the site. It is no secret that American evangelical Christian groups have taken hold in Africa, spreading their vile message of ignorance, homophobia, and hate.

 

Waters burbles about how the kids love America:

“Kenyan students love to talk about politics and very much admire the way Americans handle elections [...] We thought it would be a great way to celebrate the 4th of July and the political system by giving the shirts out on that day.”

But of course she doesn’t mention how Romney’s party has been manipulating our elections and doing everything possible to keep American blacks and other people of color from voting.

Waters then snidely works in a dig against Obama:

“President Obama was not on the best of terms with many Kenyans for choosing to visit Tanzania instead of Kenya in his recent visit to Africa, and that made many of the kids even more excited to receive the shirts.”

So … let’s send her a few hundred Obama, Wendy Davis and Elizabeth Warren T-shirts and see what happens. Their mailing address is:

The Orbit Village Project
118 Cedar Hills Road
Sevierville, TN 37862-3809

And in case you’re curious about what these kids are learning in this orphanage/school/church, here’s the video:



Ironically, while these kids are enjoying this bonanza, it turns out that Romney’s supporters in Virginia couldn’t seem to get their hands on any Romney T-shirts or lawn signs during the 2012 election, according to Christopher Bedford’s disgusted post-mortem in his “What the hell is the point of the Virginia GOP?” op-ed piece for the Daily Caller.

Author: Elisabeth Parker Elisabeth Parker is a writer, Web designer, mom, political junkie, and dilettante. Come visit her at ElisabethParker.Com, "like" her on facebook, "friend" her on facebook, follow her on Twitter, or check out her Pinterest boards. For more Addicting Info articles by Elisabeth, click here.