A lobbyist told Utah’s only black lawmaker that polygamy was equal to slavery

Charges of racism were reverberating Friday on Capitol Hill a day after a lobbyist opposing legislation to decriminalize polygamy placed a label that said “slave” in front of the first African American woman to serve in the Utah Legislature.Director of Sound Choices Coalition, Angela Kelly, used the “slave” label presentation during a minority caucus meeting in the attempt to compare the loss of identity within polygamy to that experienced by blacks during slavery.“