AND THEN THERE WERE TWO......
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stunned an audience of political supporters at a press conference in Vermont yesterday when he announced that he was a black man.
"Barack Obama is not the only African American running for President," Romney said. "I am the son of sharecroppers from a small town in Alabama, and I was adopted by the Romney family when I was just two years old and brought to Detroit, where I grew up."
When a reporter noted that Romney's physical characteristics were decidedly "un-black," the indignant Governor responded, "Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamt of a day when his children would be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin. All I ask of the press is that they show me the same courtesy. I....am.....a.....black.....man!"
Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney stunned an audience of political supporters at a press conference in Vermont yesterday when he announced that he was a black man.
"Barack Obama is not the only African American running for President," Romney said. "I am the son of sharecroppers from a small town in Alabama, and I was adopted by the Romney family when I was just two years old and brought to Detroit, where I grew up."
When a reporter noted that Romney's physical characteristics were decidedly "un-black," the indignant Governor responded, "Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamt of a day when his children would be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not the color of their skin. All I ask of the press is that they show me the same courtesy. I....am.....a.....black.....man!"
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