Hillary Clinton has basically won the nomination - and a big reason for that is Black voters

[JustAnotherGen]

100. You forget Elsa Prince-Broekhuizen and the The Church of Latter Day Saints (Mormons)

Involvement in that.

They had the money and the power.

A Portrait of Christian Hate: Prop 8's Elsa Prince of Michigan
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/1/667005/-




Erik Prince’s mom gives $450,000 to stop same-sex marriage
By Laurie Bennett
http://news.muckety.com/2008/10/29/erik-princes-mom-gives-450000-to-stop-same-sex-marriage/6231

Elsa Prince, Mother of Blackwater Founder, Was Fourth Largest Prop 8 Donor
http://www.pensitoreview.com/2008/11/17/elsa-prince-blackwater-matriarch-prop-8-donor/


Mormon Church Prop 8
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/mormon-church-prop-8/

Mormons Tipped Scale in Ban on Gay Marriage
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/us/politics/15marriage.html?_r=0

SACRAMENTO — Less than two weeks before Election Day, the chief strategist behind a ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California called an emergency meeting here.

“We’re going to lose this campaign if we don’t get more money,” the strategist, Frank Schubert, recalled telling leaders of Protect Marriage, the main group behind the ban.

The campaign issued an urgent appeal, and in a matter of days, it raised more than $5 million, including a $1 million donation from Alan C. Ashton, the grandson of a former president of the Mormon Church. The money allowed the drive to intensify a sharp-elbowed advertising campaign, and support for the measure was catapulted ahead; it ultimately won with 52 percent of the vote.

As proponents of same-sex marriage across the country planned protests on Saturday against the ban, interviews with the main forces behind the ballot measure showed how close its backers believe it came to defeat — and the extraordinary role Mormons played in helping to pass it with money, institutional support and dedicated volunteers.

So that said - what is your purpose back here? To break alliances? Because I stand with BehindTheAegis, La Lioness, etc. etc. I've also stated several times we (black Americans) cannot back down. It's not time to retreat - it's time to reload.

We WROTE the playbook for other marginalized groups. If we drop the ball - there will be many groups that lose who have thankfully been able to piggy back off the efforts of the mid 20th century black civil rights movement.

What is your intent in being in the group?

Your response was to a group host (Number23) and you are getting another response from a Group Host.

What is your intent?

Throw elbows?
Put us 'knee grows' in our place? I'd really like to know.