Reply #46: Where, outside of a small corner of the lefty blogosphere, is the McClurkin thing resonating?

[mrreowwr_kittty]

Let alone STRONGLY. Please.

I have a challenge for you: Pick 20 random people at your local shopping mall and ask if they know anything about it. I'd shit a brick if one single person did.

Then just to make the odds more favorable to you, walk into a local gay watering hole and do the same thing. Even then, you'd be hard pressed to find a soul who knew about it.

I recently asked just about every GLBT activist that I know about the McClurkin concert and what they thought about it. You know what? Only one had heard about it. He didn't think it was a big deal. These are GLBT activists, mind you.

At the night of the much agonized (on DU anyway) concert 14 LGBT activists* managed to make it out there to protest it.

Fourteen.

You'd think something that was such a huge affront to a community would muster more people from that community, wouldn't you?

*On edit: Actually 15 to 20 protesters showed up. Still, hardly evidence of a STRONGLY resonating issue.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/obamas-gospel-concert-tour/