SOUNDBITES — “We are horrified, we are electrified, we are ready and eager to enlist in this fight – but like any new recruits, we need to be trained, and we need to be mobilized. The Equality March is absolutely essential to me for two reasons. First, because, for so many of us, this is our first time raising our voices. […] Second, the Senate hearings on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” convene in October.” [PHB]
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Dan Choi Supports Cleve Jones’ National Equality March. So There!
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ThinkRealHard
The National Equality March is a waste of time,energy and especially MONEY. Cleve has purchased a few endorsements, but that doesn’t change anything – it’s a waste of our resources.
The MATH: If 500,000 people go to Washington DC for this March they will each spend $500 to travel and stay for a night. That would total $250 million. For what? A mention on the Evening News? It’s a waste of money and the truth is nobody cares if we can walk together as a group.
$250 million would make a BIG difference in places like Rhode Island, California or Maine.
Please spend your resources in your neighborhood, hometown or City. We should have a big Parade someday – the day we have equality. We’ll all go to THAT one. This March does not contribute to that possibility.
Rick
Dan Choi is a good guy.
ThinkRealHard
@Rick: He is a good guy. It makes you wonder why he would support this Cleve Jones mess.
little sasquatch
Here’s why it makes sense. Because you can’t buy equality. It doesn’t work that way. You have to change hearts and minds. This is what the couch potato blogger toadies never understand. Its not enough to send your check in for this cause or that. Its not enough to create a “Snowboarders for Equality” facebook page. You have to get up and get out and make change happen. The march will get a thousand times worth what it costs to put it on in earned media across the world. It’ll change minds from Bangalore Maine to Bangkok Thailand. Cleve Jones and Dan Choi understand this because they’ve been doing the hard work since November when the election in California was lost. You nay-sayers who sit in your chair, or lay in your bed, typing your complaints away every time someone has an idea and didn’t run it by you first have got to buy a clue. Cleve Jones and Dan Choi are doers. They get shit done. Period. Any bright-eyed bushy-tailed gay is going to follow these soldiers of equality before they’re going to line up behind these lazy blogging blow hards. You want real change? You want to expedite equality across this country? Get off your i-chair, put down your i-phone, hop in your i-car and get i-thee to DC in October. Do something. Change this God forsaken world. Not for yourself. Do it for all the beautiful young people who don’t want to wait for change, who don’t deserve to be discriminated against. Do it for the tens of thousands of LGBT soldiers who are risking their lives right now. Do it for that kid in Putnam Ohio who thinks he or she is the only LGBT person in the country. Do it because doing nothing but talking about how you have a better idea… does nothing. Get up people. Get real. Get busy. Join Cleve Jones and Dan Choi and shit will change for the better. I’m sure of it.
ThinkRealHard
@little sasquatch: That didn’t make any sense. Nobody cares if we can “walk together as a group.”
If 500,000 people go to Washington DC (to stand around for Equality) they will spend $500 each in travel/accomidations etc.,, for a total of $250 million. That money would be wasted on a “symbolic” gesture that nobody cares about. It would be better spent in our own neighborhoods and towns.
Reports suggest that less than 20,000 have expressed an interest, so maybe this charade is almost over.
Little sasquatch
Think real hard. It’s ok that you don’t understand how community organizing works and effectively changes the state of policy. What really gets my gay hairs up is 1. DC is estimating over 100,000 participants. So your guesstimate of 20K is way off. 2. Instead of complaining – do something. Why don’t you use your powerful influence and work tirelessly and get 500,000 to give you money. Then you can finance your own movemt for change. But until you put down your laptop and actually create action instead of just botching, I and tens of thousands who appreciate the good work Mr. Jones and Mr. Choi are doing, would rather you keep your I’ll informed opinion to yourself.
Mike
Dan Choi is a pawn of the “courage” campaign. hello! of course he endorsed this, he’d be on the blacklist if he didnt