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Created: December 18, 2002
Latest Update: December 18, 2002
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Illocutionary Discourse with the African Priests

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, December 2002.
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On Monday, September 23, 2002, Ninivet Gomez wrote:

Dear Jeanne my name is Ninivet Gomez and I am one of your women in Society students. The most important thing I learned from the African priests is that the people of Africa do not simply need our charity. What they really need are the skills and the machinery to be able to support themselves and grow their own food and not have to depend on anyone else for food. It makes so much more sense to me since I never thought of it that way. I always believed in sending clothes and food to the poor. But sooner or later those supplies run out and I'm sure most people don't get an adequate supply anyway. I truly hope and pray that the African people will one day get what they really need.

On Wedensday, December 18, 2002, jeanne finally responded:

Ninivet, that's an important measure of learning, the skill of listening in good faith to the Other, to try to understand his/her needs as he/she perceives them. Sometimes we call this "respect."

love and peace, jeanne

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