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Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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March 04, 2004

"Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant. It is subversive to social peace. It is destructive of moral supremacy, and ultimately this slavery to black beasts will bring this nation to a fatal conflict"
-- Representative Seaborn Roddenberry (D-GA) - December 1912 | Gilmore, Al-Tony (1975). p.108 - Bad Nigger! The National Impact of Jack Johnson. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press.

"Let this condition go on if you will. At some day, perhaps remote, it will be a question always whether or not the solemnizing of matrimony in the North is between two descendants of our Anglo-Saxon fathers and mothers or whether it be of a mixed blood descended from the orangutan-trodden shores of far-off Africa."
-- Representative Seaborn Roddenberry (D-GA) - December 1912 | Kristof, Nicholas D (March 3, 2004). Marriage: Mix and Match: New York Times