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Related: About this forumBlack Women Rally Behind Hillary Clinton
(cross posting from GDP)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511868450
Hillary Clinton never goes very far without black women sharing the stage, introducing her around or casting ballots for her in outsize numbersand they are a prime reason she stands on the cusp of claiming the Democratic presidential nomination. Black women have long played a big role in Mrs. Clintons life and career, and now their expanding roles in politicsas voters, officeholders and activistshave lifted the Clinton campaign in multiple ways.
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Ahead of the New York primary this month, Rep. Yvette Clarke, a black woman who represents Brooklyn, was constantly at her side. In Ohio, she frequently shared the stage with Rep. Marcia Fudge of Cleveland.
Winning with African-American voters carries outsize importance because of Democratic Party rules that the Clinton campaign grasped early on. Delegates to the national convention are allocated by congressional district, and districts that have historically turned out more Democratic votes get more delegates. The result: Districts with large black populations have many more delegates than others. Take Ms. Fudges northeast Ohio district. Typically, congressional districts each get between four and eight delegates, but hers had 17, more than any other in the nation. Eleven of them went to Mrs. Clinton.
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It isnt just an Obama effect, said Maya Harris, who studied the subject at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, and who now works for the Clinton campaign. She pointed to the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial race, when high turnout rates among black women helped elect Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who took 38% of white women but a whopping 91% of black women.
At the same time, more black women are being elected to office in their own right. There are 20 black women in the House, including two nonvoting members, many of whom have campaigned with Mrs. Clinton. Four black women are big-city mayors. And black women have increased their representation in state legislatures by nearly 50% since 1994, according to a study by the Center for American Women & Politics at Rutgers University.
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Black women also are the driving force behind activist groups that hold particular sway in the Democratic Party, such as Black Lives Matter and Mothers of the Movement, made up of women who have lost children to gun violence or in police custody, and who are pushing for new gun restrictions and police accountability.
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In interviews, many black voters and leaders said they relate to Mrs. Clintons long, bumpy career, including the public airing of her husbands extramarital affairs. She has taken a beating for many things publicly, and shes still standing. And we feel the same way, Ms. Fudge said. They also sense that she is comfortable with black women, not putting on a show to get votes.
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The impression is bolstered by Mrs. Clintons personal relationships. Her chief of staff at the State Department, 2008 campaign manager and her first boss after law school have all been black women. She has counted many well-known black women as friends, such as the late Dorothy Height, a civil rights and womens rights activist.
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http://www.wsj.com/articles/black-women-rally-behind-hillary-clinton-1461866619
msongs
(67,443 posts)zalinda
(5,621 posts)instead of the Congressional dining room. I would imagine he knows quite a few black women who help clean the building.
Z
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Well ... at least the poster didn't reference Bernie's visits to welfare offices, prisons and drug rehab centers.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)He eats with the lessers, you know the people who normally no office worker or upper notices. He doesn't spend time chatting with other people, because he's too busy. I have no idea who is on his staff, or how they are made up (you know sex, color and stuff). Those are the only people that he would be seeing on a regular basis besides those he sees at lunch.
You want to turn everything into a pissing contest, and everything into black vs white. It just ain't so.
But, at least I know that you equate cleaning people and maintenance staff to welfare recipients, prisoners and drug users. Now, I know why you are a Clinton supporter.
Z
La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)seriously? why
this is like being in the feminist forum and saying gender doesn't matter
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I'm speechless!
Did you notice YOU are equating cleaning people and maintenance staff to Black people?
Number23
(24,544 posts)You know, I've never noticed you or your posts before but your "contributions" to this thread are so tellingly ignorant I honestly don't know what in God's name you were thinking posting in this forum. Please do not return.
Cha
(297,703 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)He eats with the lessers in the basement? The cleaning staff? And you assume that's the only time available for him to meet black people? And apparently that cleaning staff are by definition black, and that's the only job that is available to them?
1950 is calling, and it's time for you to go back.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)And lets make sure this little gem is captured just in case you "accidentally" hit that self-delete button.
2. He eats lunch in the employees lunch room
instead of the Congressional dining room. I would imagine he knows quite a few black women who help clean the building.
zalinda
(5,621 posts)I guess it's all white people, black men and latinos then? Why would I want to delete it?
This is the post I was replying to:
I wonder how many black women bernie knows and associates with on a regular basis
I know he eats lunch with the staff in the basement. I would assume that the secretaries and other people either eat out, eat at their desks or in some sort of lounge. From my experience, office workers do not eat with labor, and I've usually been labor. I identify more with the cleaning staff or maintenance people than with the office people or the college educated workers.
It's your ignorance that is showing.
Z
Number23
(24,544 posts)And you seem to be fucking pleased as punch about that too.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)this along with the post she made to me the other day (basically saying that i was exaggerating the influence of race), makes me wonder why she posts here
zalinda
(5,621 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)your lack of participation will be a favor to you as well as the rest of us.
JustAnotherGen
(31,907 posts)Then blocking him/her regarldess of their race, religion, color, sex, sexuality - etc. etc. Disruption and Demeaning people has no race, religion, creed.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Especially when every second post is more ignorant than the one before it.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)White people post here. The ability to post here is based on behavior, not skin color or voting preference. If that were not the case, the people of this forum wouldn't have made me a group host.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Or if it was done intentionally to upset people.
Number23
(24,544 posts)Just when I think I've seen it all here too.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)I was working in a voting precinct and thought quietly humm, I like what I was seeing. Spoke to a friend and she told me they were tired of the crap happening. I think this is the beginning of something good happening. They were also bringing young children, I did encourage the children to vote when old enough. Thanks for the support.
Cha
(297,703 posts)to the Presidency and I, personally, cannot ever Thank them enough!
Mahalo, question~
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)La Lioness Priyanka
(53,866 posts)With noenthusiasmgap
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)Canesfan
(24 posts)Which is why Hillary is the logical choice.