Time: Wed Nov 13 06:15:50 1996
To: kai@sirius.com
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Arguments for a Black Fundamentalist
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Mary Magdalene was about to be stoned
for her chronic prostitution;  she
was transformed by one Man, who had
authority to bash her head in, but
wrote in the sand instead.  She was the
first one to His tomb, after He had
been brutally murdered.  Confronting
the gardener to complain about the body,
now missing, she heard Him say, "Mary" in
a gentle voice.  Her deepest despair
vaulted into supreme ecstasy, all
because of this one Man.  The solution
to drug addiction is to be found in
the Mind of the Maker, of all things,
both visible and invisible, the Word,
ineffable.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


At 01:33 AM 11/13/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I would appreciate any advice on how to convince a coworker to
>support drug regulation.  We have a friendly relationship, and he
>enjoys hearing my strange beliefs, despite his being a Black,
>ghetto-born, conservative, family-having, literal fundamentalist
>Christian.  While he agrees that prisons don't stop people from
>using drugs and wrongly focus on the little guy, he think users are
>acting stupid and he has no sympathy for them, unless perhaps they
>are children.  He is concerned about all drugs, including the legal
>ones, and regrets the repeal of alcohol prohition, despite all the
>violence and corruption.  I suspect he thinks drug could all be
>stopped at the border if our government wasn't so corrupt.  
>He can't seem to make it past people shouldn't use drugs therefore 
>they should be illegal.
>
>I'm not sure if this will help, but he was also in favor of 
>Cailfornia's repeal of Affirmative Action (I wasn't).  He thinks that 
>while Affirmative Action is the only thing keeping racism in check, 
>its still a quota system and therefore wrong.
>
>I'm sure I covered all the obvious arguments, but if someone has some 
>experience with just this sort of perspective, I'd appreciate some 
>suggestions mailed privately.
>
>
>Kai
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