In a message dated 4/30/2004 5:28:47 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I will ask you as I have Booker, what evidence you have for any of this? What makes it [the Links] an "elite social club"? How do you know this? What do they do that you're defining as elite? What proof do you have for your assertions that it "joined forces" to do anything? >> The Links, Boule, and Jack & Jill are among the better know organizations for upper class African Americans. Books written about those clubs for the African-American upper class include: Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class, by Lawrence Otis Graham. In 1998 one of the qualifications for membership in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Links chapter was a 4 year college degree, the initiation fee was $1,000. In a news report about the election of Minneapolis NAACP branch officers that first appeared in the March 10-16, 1999 issue of the Pulse of the Twin Cities, I observed that, The slate headed by Jefferson, and later by Campbell received the support of an influential organization of upper-class African American women (and men) called the Links. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Links chapter urged their members to purchase $10 memberships in the NAACP, and to support the Jefferson slate, an "NAACP leadership that is supportive of our own link Carol Johnson, superintendent of the Minneapolis Public Schools and Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis" [from a Links newsletter dated October 3, 1998]. -- Minneapolis branch faces hostile takeover bid, by Doug Mann (first published in the Pulse of the Twin Cities under the heading Minneapolis NAACP branch in turmoil) http://educationright.tripod.com/id44.htm -Doug Mann Minneapolis School Board candidate REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
