That day in 2013 when 14,000 strong, intelligent African American women
listened to Hillary Clinton speak, and the audience erupted in chants for her to run.
It's not a mystery why HRC has so much African American support, if you know how strong her ties have been over the decades with groups such as the Deltas.
This is what Bernie is up against in trying to cut into Hillary’s minority support. Many black women voters, like the Deltas, made up their minds long before the campaign started. And they are women in positions of influence.
In the re-election campaign of 2012, white women and men didn’t help to put Obama over the top. The majority of white people, of both genders, voted for Romney.
African Americans, and especially black women, were a key group for the President, and their votes will be critical in the coming election as well.
http://thegrio.com/2013/07/17/deltas-urge-clinton-to-run-in-2016/
Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday the future of the Voting Rights Act is in “real jeopardy” following the Supreme Court’s decision striking down a portion of the law, telling a prominent organization of black women that Congress should act to preserve “fairness and equality” in the nation’s voting system.
The former secretary of state was feted with chants of “Run, Hillary, Run,” as she concluded her 30-minute remarks to nearly 14,000 members of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority, an historic black women’s organization celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Clinton, a potential 2016 presidential candidate, said the Supreme Court’s decision “struck at the heart” of the landmark law and warned that it could undermine Americans’ most fundamental rights.
“Unless Congress acts, you know and I know, more obstacles are on their way,” Clinton said, walking freely on stage instead of delivering her speech from a podium. “They’re going to make it difficult for poor people, elderly people, working people, minority people to be able to do what we should take for granted.”
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Clinton made no mention of any future political plans, saying she intends to promote early childhood development, the rights of women and girls around the globe and economic development in her new role in her family’s presidential foundation. In a nod to the sea of women wearing crimson and cream, the organization’s colors, Clinton quipped that “in mathematics, delta means change. I think that’s pretty fitting.”
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