The Baha'i Studies Listserv Part of the problem is that 1) there are absolutely some white people who won't, and 2) it never happened before, so people had to see it to believe it (not just for black people). Skepticism in the black community has seemed well-earned, in many people's view.
Yours, Jeanine On 4/1/2010 4:53 AM, David Regal wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > >Sure, if we are teaching the Faith we should not bring it up, but as > >you know I teach at a HBCU (historically black college) and when my > >colleagues told me that when white people went into the poll booth > >they would not vote for a black man, I couldn't resist coming back to > >work the next day and say, "Yes, we did." :-) > Why the extreme skepticism? Didn't pre-election polling indicate the > opposite? There have been black governors in the US. > David > > > __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[email protected] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
