--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, Michael Everson <everson@...> wrote:

> At 10:38 -0400 2005-08-31, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

> > > You know what? I know some actual Vai people. And
> >> they are happy with my work. Ain't that something.

> >At a guess, they belong to the Western-oriented, educated elite.

A valid point - one I had been about to suggest.

> Which
> >sides did they take in the Liberian civil war? If Idi Amin or Baby-

Doc

> >Duvalier, from their comfortable exiles on the French Riviera,
> >commissioned work from you, would you suppose it was for the

benefit of

> >the people of Uganda or Haiti?
>
> This insinuation is contemptible.

Marred by some uncalled-for unpleasantness.

Rihcard.