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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">From: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black">Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com>, "africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday 31 August 2016 at 14:05<br>
<b>To: </b>Mike Silber <silber.mike@gmail.com>, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda <paulos@sdnp.org.mw><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"community-discuss@afrinic.net" <community-discuss@afrinic.net>, "members-discuss@afrinic.net" <members-discuss@afrinic.net>, "africann@afrinic.net" <africann@afrinic.net>, "aftld-members@aftld.org" <aftld-members@aftld.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] [members-discuss] [SPAM] Re: ICANN 2016 Nominating Committee Announces Selections - unfortunate Africa d<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">As an academic, I might be suffering the same illusion as Paulos :-),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">I remember my interest in ICANN was actually provoked by the days when Alice, Katim et al were on the board.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Without doubting the capability of the incoming members, it is important that Nomcom takes the issue racial diversity alot more seriously. After all, that
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"> Mike Silber <silber.mike@gmail.com><br>
<b>To:</b> Dr Paulos B Nyirenda <paulos@sdnp.org.mw> <br>
<b>Cc:</b> community-discuss@afrinic.net; members-discuss@afrinic.net; AfrICANN Community List <africann@afrinic.net>; aftld-members@aftld.org<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 31, 2016 3:50 PM<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [members-discuss] [SPAM] Re: [AfrICANN-discuss] ICANN 2016 Nominating Committee Announces Selections - unfortunate Africa d</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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> On 31 Aug 2016, at 14:38, Dr Paulos B Nyirenda <<a href="mailto:paulos@sdnp.org.mw">paulos@sdnp.org.mw</a>> wrote:<br>
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> This does not reduce how glaringly <br>
> disparate the observed situation is and no one in this discussion is challenging the
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> observation.<br>
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I will challenge that observation.<br>
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I suspect you are affirming the consequent, a logical fallacy that surprises me in an academic such as yourself.<br>
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