2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Black Millennials: "Hillary...invested in violence against Black bodies." [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Lemme see, rough estimate here
Crowd was 13K strong. By my rough estimate 10K were minorities. You see, many Latinos, like me look white. Trust me, or not, we are not. And at least 8K of that crowd were kind of all kinds of colors. I also saw a lot of friendly faces, some of them Native American as well, and poiynesian. We even had a few from our local Somali community, and a few Muslim Americans. It was a spectacle of how varied the nation is. A pleasure actually to see.
We have had this discussion before, I agree with you that we have a relatively low number of AA in the crowd, but they slightly over perform the county wide 6.1 percent. And with few expecting, they were millennials.
Oh and since we ran that yesterday already from the venue, the local president of the National, Action Network and his Executive Committee, met with the Senator as well, in private before the speech.
But as I said, my sensor was playing tricks. That is the ONLY explanation that will fit your biases. And those my friend, are your biases. Myself, I had a long day at work, and just getting near the end of a first draft. I still have 400+ photos to go through.