MadProfessah Quoted in SF Chronicle Blog

MadProfessah has been involved in the Prepare to Prevail movement to urge people who are gung ho about repealing Proposition 8 by an affirmative ballot measure in 2010 to think more deeply about the implications and impacts of such a commitment on the entire community.

To that effect, the media has been catching up to the story of intra-community dialogue. The latest story was written by Joe Garofoli at the San Francisco Chronicle Politics blog and is titled "The uphill climb facing same sex marriage supporters"

Leave it to a math professor -- like Ron Buckmire, associate math prof at Occidental College -- to break down some raw numbers to illustrate the task facing folks who want to put gay marriage on the ballot in November 2010.

The Mad Professah -- as herefers to himself in his blog-- has another gig as board prez of the Jordan/Rustin Coaltion, a African-American gay rights group in LA. As we've told you before, it's one ofseveral LGBT coalitions of colorthat says there hasn't been enough outreach done, and wants to hold off on rushing to the ballot (like in 2010) until more hearts and minds can be changed. The Professah knows how hard that can be. He's been canvassing in LA for a while (and involved in other gay rights campaigns since the early 1990s).

In July, he was part of a group that had its most successful day ever in "moving" voters in a middle-class black neighborhood in LA -- that is getting them to change their mind just a bit about the issue. They moved 50 voters -- after knocking on 1,200 doors.

"As I like to say: Do the math," Buckmire told us. "It's going to take a long time." While he's happy that some outreach is starting, "I haven't seen a plan to win yet. I've seen a plan to get on the ballot. But not to win."

Garofioli goes on to intimate that a plan to win will be released on Monday. Presumably, he is referring to Equality California's Marc Solomon's much anticipated memo on exactly how and when the state's largest LGBT organization feels Proposition 8 should be repealed.

MadProfessah will be on Michelangelo Signorile's Sirius radio show at 1:30pm PDT on Monday discussing the reasons why I think 2010 is too early to attempt to repeal Proposition 8 permanently.