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- From: bailey@girtab.usc.edu (Benjamin Bailey)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.african,soc.culture.african.american
- Subject: Re: African American Buddhists interested in correspondence
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 13:56:09 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <29DEC92.00014756@edison.usask.ca> f54oguocha@edison.usask.ca writes:
- >In a previous article, srose@mizar.usc.edu (Steve Rose) wrote:
- >>Hello. I am writing this note on behalf of my wife, Elaine. She is
- >>a Buddhist interested in Zen and other aspects of contemplative Buddhism.
- >>She is looking for other Africans with an open-minded approach to Buddhism
- >>to correspond with.
- >>Thanks,
- >>
- >>Habib Rose
- >
- >Hi,
- >i think you are tuned to a wrong channel. there is only one religion found
- >by Africans for Africans - African Traditional Religion. The rest are invaders
- >and i think they are responsible for most of our problems today (this is my own
- >personal opinion; you can hold your own and let it be yours). i think this news-
- >group has more important things to discuss in 1993 than religions. i suggest
- >she tries s.c.india, s.c.china, s.c.mongolia, or s.c.anything not Africa. and
- >i wish her goodluck.
- >oguocha
-
- Was this post really necessary? Someone needs to clue this person in on the
- purose of this newsgroup, I seriously doubt Mr. Rose would find many African-
- Americans scouring s.c. india , or any of the others he mentioned. I think
- that Mr. Rose's Post was very appropriate to the newsgroup; just because
- a post isn't political doesn't mean it should be excluded. It just happens
- that there are very prolific subscribers to this newsgroup who like to
- engage in flame-wars (where I grew up this was called talkin' ____) concerning
- politics. I think that there are lots of other CONSTRUCTIVE things that this
- newsgroup can be used for in addition to the political harangues. Please don't
- stamp out these precious few threads.
-
- Happy Holidays,
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