I don’t have a top-10 list of reasons why Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney shouldn’t have addressed the NAACP’s annual convention yesterday, but I do have a top-four list.

1. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is no longer a civil rights organization. It was at one time, in the glory days when men like Walter White and Roy Wilkins led the organization. Those were the days when lawyers like Thurgood Marshall racked up court victory after court victory to whittle away at, and eventually destroy, the edifice of de jure segregation in the United States.