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From: bennet@gymble.UUCP (Tom Bennet)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Re: Falwell, South Africa, Homosexuality, and divestiture.
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Date: Fri, 30-Aug-85 20:03:04 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 30 20:03:04 1985
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>From alan@sun.uucp (Alan Marr, Sun Graphics) Wed Aug 28 04:25:14 1985
>Subject: Falwell, South Africa, Homosexuality, and divestiture.
>Message-ID: <2719@sun.uucp>
>
>5.
>In my opinion, Jerry Falwell doesn't have a clue about the real
>situation in South Africa, or have enough contact with ordinary
>people there (not hand-picked for him to visit), or have enough
>self-control to avoid insulting the churchmen who are showing
>real compassion.  His whole attitude and his very statements are
>examples of knee-jerk reactions.  He is generating more heat
>than light.
>
>---
>{ucbvax,decwrl}!sun!alan

By way of information, Falwell was interviewed on CBS News Nightwatch, I
believe it was the same day he announced his ad campaign opposing
disinvestment.  He said that during his trip to SA, he had the use of a car and
the freedom to travel where he wished.  He reported interviews with local
officials who are black and elected by blacks (township level I think, but it
may have been within one of the "homelands") who reported great fear of
disinvestment due to job loss.  (He named names, but unfortunatly I don't
recall any of them.)

I think that Falwell's idea to travel around SA and talk to black leaders there
is a good one, and wish someone with a little more credibility in the public
mind would do so.  It seems that most of the time, the only opinion we hear
from black SA is that of Rev. Tutu.  He's a fine man, but he seems to have
been chosen mostly by the Nobel committee and the Western media, neither of
whom exactly qualify as black South Africans.  In any case, I'm certain that
all blacks in SA do not think exactly like Tutu, and it would be nice to hear
some other voices as well.
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