Re: Yaguello's stereotype: response to Roger

>What????  She actually said that?  Most speakers of
>glossolalia are black women?  Where did she get that?
>I've know hundreds of speakers of glossolalia, maybe
>thousands, and certaily there are many black women
>among the speakers I have know, but they are by no
>means a majority of the speakers I have know.  I've
>know speakers of every race and gender combination
>imaginable from dozens upon dozens of countries.  I
I can't claim to know glossolalia speakers across dozens of countreis, but
the 1st one I ever saw/met was a middle-aged white man, and the majority
that I knew were white as the church* they attended wouldn't have even
considered letting in "coloreds" (non-whites).

Was her sampling narrow by circumstance? by design/intent?

*This was in the 60s and 70s. The only reason I had any interface, even
though involuntary, with this church was that I had a relative who was a
member.

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