[Buddha-l] Re: fundamentalism

[Bshmr at aol.com]

>{StormyTet at aol.com}: Almost all of this is due to one issue: homosexuality.
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>I am not sure about this. I have been showing "Black Is Black Aint", a film 
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In the early 1970s, I worked in the Kansas SOB (State Office Building) around 
civil rights and welfare activists. Homosexuality, particularly among black 
males, was a more polarizing issue than 'salt and pepper' both of which were 
seen as reducing the pool of desirable black males for desirable black females. 
'Jet' magazine and other publications ran features on this, as well as the 
culturally enforced matriarchy and poverty, etc. I recall coworkers frothing 
about both.

For the women, both the homosexual and mixed (race) coupling by black males 
was a devastating blow, far worse than being paid less than white women (who 
were paid less than white men) for example. 

BTW, it also opened a few running sores about white men exploiting and 
abusing black women -- the internalized history of which was a load for delightful, 
intelligent Alice (more so than others).

That said, 'faith' had less influence than 'history' and 'dreams'. 


Richard Basham, aka rbb.  Now, in my third year of being held-over in a 
Buddhist Kindergarten.