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From: john@cisden.UUCP (John Woolley)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Jerry Falwell and Reagan
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 16:47:04 EST
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In article <32@decwrl.UUCP> mahoney@bach.DEC writes:
>   What do you call Mr Falwell's views on South Africa and the Bishop
>Tutu?  Personally I thought they were racist and stupid.  
>
>			(I don't have the quotes on me right now
>but if neccesary I will go to the library and look them up).

Now I'm hardly a big fan of Jerry Falwell's, but *racist*?  Come on.  If
anyone has an actual racist quotation from Falwell, at least in the last
ten years, I'd love to see it, along with information as to where it came
from.  Criticising something a black man says, even calling that black man
stupid, is not racism.  It's only racist if the reason for your disliking
or denigrating him is that he's black.

I'm concerned not because I like Falwell, but because it seems he's on the
receiving end of a lot of inaccurate hearsay.  The quote about God not
hearing Jews' prayers is an example : Falwell never said it -- he's 
a Zionist, from what I can tell -- but there were an awful lot of people,
including some in this discussion, who were willing to repeat the rumour
that he had said it, and discount him because of it.

I saw Falwell and Jesse Jackson on _Nightline_ a couple of months ago, and
he sure seemed anything but racist.  Stupid, perhaps.  There's a recent
biography of Falwell out, written by a Catholic Indian named Dinesh
D'Souza, who isn't particularly friendly to Falwell, but doesn't think
he's a racist.

Please do go to the library to "look them up", and tell us what you find.
-- 
				Peace and Good!,
				      Fr. John Woolley
"The heart has its reasons that the mind does not know." -- Blaise Pascal