Sullivan points out an interview with Latrice Johnson of the group United Lesbians of African Heritage. She is an African-American gay rights activist who approached the No on 8 Campaign to help to sway African-American votes. She reports that she was roundly dismissed:
Did anyone come and say, “Hey, we need to do outreach in the African-American community together?”
Absolutely not, in fact the message I got from a key person in the No on 8 campaign was that the black vote was really going to be insignificant. It’s not enough, that it wasn’t going to be an issue because we are not a majority of the vote, even though they knew that a large number was going to come out to vote for Obama. It wasn’t a fear because they didn’t feel like the numbers were going to affect (Prop 8 ) either way.
Read the full interview at Two Down, 48 to Go.
