Note to Philly's black voters: Your plight is not Romney's fault

Here’s some advice for Mitt Romney, soon to be the Republican nominee for president: Get a new director of black outreach. A week ago, Romney visited the Universal Bluford Charter School in West Philadelphia, a predominantly black section of the City of Brotherly Love.

Romney got no love in West Philadelphia. Kenny Gamble, the record mogul and songwriter who wrote songs so exquisite that he even made the horrible singing Intruders sound good, presumed to lecture Romney about the educational history of black Americans.