[lbo-talk] Arguments for a Secular America (Was : 77% of Americans support the cretinous judge)

[kjkhoo at softhome.net]

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>Or maybe not.  Mission-created educational institutions in Africa often
>served as the training ground for the future cadre of independence
>activists (cf. Jomo Kenyatta, Arap Moi, Milton Obote, or Julius
>Nyerere).

Um... that was probably in spite of, rather than because of a mission 
education whose political intentions in so far as they were overtly 
formulated was in preservation of the superiority of colonial rule 
and of the white man.

I guess that "in spite of" is a point in favour of how sometimes, in 
some circumstances, experience trumps indoctrination.