Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19991211084548.0080f5e0@idiom.com> Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1999 08:45:48 -0800 From: Marc Krizack <mailto:commissar@IDIOM.COM> Subject: Re: The Life in Africa Foundation -- seeking microfinance stories To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU
I find the following message totally repugnant. If it's Mr. Johnson's idea of a joke, it isn't funny. If he is serious, his name and email address should be widely distributed.This list has deteriorated rapidly. It seems that the tone generated by the recent battle between Kerry and Douglas has made others feel comfortable using barnyard language and now apparently expressing anti-semitic views. This needs to stop.
At 03:55 AM 12/11/1999 -0700, ROBERT JOHNSON wrote: >when people start quoting the juden...
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>i pull out my revolver
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elaine Friedland <mailto:elaine3@MINDSPRING.COM>
>To: mailto:DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU <DEVEL-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU>
>Date: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:58 PM
>Subject: Re: The Life in Africa Foundation -- seeking microfinance stories
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>>I would like to add to the comment below, a Jewish philosopher in the 13th
>>century stated that the highest
>>form of charity is that which ensures that the poor person gains an
>>independent means of earning a living.
>>The same should be applied to development projects in Africa.
>>>However, they forget that Africans are not pets that you save from the
>>>shelter. If you are so moved to "save" them, because they are people you
>>>must give them the respect to understand that the best practice is not
>>>perpetual paternalism. If I help a man that is starving, I want to see
>him
>>>function on his own. I don't have any desire for the sense of power that
>I
>>>will save him each day of his life by having him come to me each day for
>>>food, so each day I can feel like a saviour.
>> ELAINE A. FRIEDLAND, Ph.D.
>> ANALYST OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY:
>> FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT
>>
>>89 FOREST GREEN TELEPHONE NO:
>>718-948-2465
>>STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK 10312, USA E-MAIL: mailto:elaine3@mindspring.com
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