1) The document is President Cyril Ramaphosa's eulogy at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's funeral, praising her as a leader who dedicated her life to fighting apartheid and uniting South Africans.
2) It describes how Winnie endured immense suffering and harassment under apartheid but continued resisting through her defiance, courage, and leadership.
3) The eulogy acknowledges that while Winnie comforted others and touched their wounds, South Africans did not adequately support her through her own suffering, leaving her to tend her wounds alone.
The document summarizes a student group's visit to the Shishir Knitting & Dyeing factory. It includes:
- An overview of the factory's operations, including its production capacity and number of employees.
- Descriptions of the various sections within the factory, such as the dyeing, sewing, inspection, and packing sections.
- Details about the machinery used, including knitting machines, sewing machines, and ironing equipment.
- Some noted areas for improvement, such as a lack of CAD and industrial engineering departments.
The conclusion states the factory has good safety and incentive programs but could improve its ventilation system.
Este relato muestra la forma como se defienden algunos animales y resalta que la habilidad y el instinto pueden ser cualidades muy valiosas a la hora de enfrentar el peligro.
Pepe es una pequeña zarigüeya que no para de reír.
Su madre, preocupada, decide enseñarle algo muy importante: hacerse el muerto para defenderse de sus enemigos.
Para motivar a su hijo, Mamá zarigüeya le promete a Pepe una deliciosa torta de insectos como recompensa si es capaz de aprender esta forma de defensa.
Pero al pequeño le cuesta mucho trabajo dejar de reír y no puede evitar hacerlo cuando su madre lo olfatea como un zorro, lo hurga como un coyote o lo sacude como un gato montés.
Un día, Mamá zarigüeya lo lleva a practicar fuera, con la idea de simular un encuentro con un oso.
Justo en ese momento aparece un oso real, y gruñe tan ferozmente que Pepe y su madre caen de inmediato al suelo para hacerse los muertos.
El oso olfatea y sacude a Pepe, pero este no reacciona.
Sin embargo, el oso sólo quería aprender a reír, y como cree que ha matado a las zarigüeyas, desconsolado, empieza a llorar.
Pepe se conmueve y decide levantarse para explicar el truco al oso. Al ver lo graciosa que es la situación, todos se echan a reír.
Ladies and gentleman, family, friends and all those who’ve travelled from near and afar to be at my mother’s funeral, good morning. Your presence means everything to me and my family. Ever since we announced that my mother had departed this world, we’ve been comforted and strengthened in our hour of grief and weakness by your love, your messages, your visitations, and above all your testimonies of what my mother meant to each of you.
The document is a speech given at a Transgender Day of Remembrance event to honor transgender individuals who were killed. It discusses both mourning the losses of lives to violence as well as celebrating the lives and courage of the victims. The speech expresses hope for the future through the presence of allies, the example set by living authentically, and the next generation of transgender youth. It promotes finding happiness and living fulfilled lives as acts of resistance against those who promote hatred and violence.
Thabo Mbeki’s moving tribute letter to Mam’ WinnieSABC News
Thabo Mbeki pays tribute to Winnie Mandela in a moving letter, honoring her as a fallen icon of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He describes how the oppressive apartheid regime failed to extinguish Winnie's fire for freedom and justice. Mbeki urges listeners to pay close attention to signs of nature that praise Winnie's courage and condemn her persecutors, as she represented the strength and sacrifice to fight injustice. He expresses condolences and says Winnie now joins other leaders who continue to shine guidance on building a non-racial, egalitarian society in South Africa.
1. The document is Nelson Mandela's speech given at the inauguration of South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994 after the end of apartheid.
2. In the speech, Mandela expresses pride in being African and describes the diversity of the African people and their struggles against oppression.
3. He highlights the new constitution as an achievement that enshrines equality and human rights for all South Africans, establishing a democratic, non-racial society free from oppression and tyranny.
The document summarizes a student group's visit to the Shishir Knitting & Dyeing factory. It includes:
- An overview of the factory's operations, including its production capacity and number of employees.
- Descriptions of the various sections within the factory, such as the dyeing, sewing, inspection, and packing sections.
- Details about the machinery used, including knitting machines, sewing machines, and ironing equipment.
- Some noted areas for improvement, such as a lack of CAD and industrial engineering departments.
The conclusion states the factory has good safety and incentive programs but could improve its ventilation system.
Este relato muestra la forma como se defienden algunos animales y resalta que la habilidad y el instinto pueden ser cualidades muy valiosas a la hora de enfrentar el peligro.
Pepe es una pequeña zarigüeya que no para de reír.
Su madre, preocupada, decide enseñarle algo muy importante: hacerse el muerto para defenderse de sus enemigos.
Para motivar a su hijo, Mamá zarigüeya le promete a Pepe una deliciosa torta de insectos como recompensa si es capaz de aprender esta forma de defensa.
Pero al pequeño le cuesta mucho trabajo dejar de reír y no puede evitar hacerlo cuando su madre lo olfatea como un zorro, lo hurga como un coyote o lo sacude como un gato montés.
Un día, Mamá zarigüeya lo lleva a practicar fuera, con la idea de simular un encuentro con un oso.
Justo en ese momento aparece un oso real, y gruñe tan ferozmente que Pepe y su madre caen de inmediato al suelo para hacerse los muertos.
El oso olfatea y sacude a Pepe, pero este no reacciona.
Sin embargo, el oso sólo quería aprender a reír, y como cree que ha matado a las zarigüeyas, desconsolado, empieza a llorar.
Pepe se conmueve y decide levantarse para explicar el truco al oso. Al ver lo graciosa que es la situación, todos se echan a reír.
Ladies and gentleman, family, friends and all those who’ve travelled from near and afar to be at my mother’s funeral, good morning. Your presence means everything to me and my family. Ever since we announced that my mother had departed this world, we’ve been comforted and strengthened in our hour of grief and weakness by your love, your messages, your visitations, and above all your testimonies of what my mother meant to each of you.
The document is a speech given at a Transgender Day of Remembrance event to honor transgender individuals who were killed. It discusses both mourning the losses of lives to violence as well as celebrating the lives and courage of the victims. The speech expresses hope for the future through the presence of allies, the example set by living authentically, and the next generation of transgender youth. It promotes finding happiness and living fulfilled lives as acts of resistance against those who promote hatred and violence.
Thabo Mbeki’s moving tribute letter to Mam’ WinnieSABC News
Thabo Mbeki pays tribute to Winnie Mandela in a moving letter, honoring her as a fallen icon of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He describes how the oppressive apartheid regime failed to extinguish Winnie's fire for freedom and justice. Mbeki urges listeners to pay close attention to signs of nature that praise Winnie's courage and condemn her persecutors, as she represented the strength and sacrifice to fight injustice. He expresses condolences and says Winnie now joins other leaders who continue to shine guidance on building a non-racial, egalitarian society in South Africa.
1. The document is Nelson Mandela's speech given at the inauguration of South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994 after the end of apartheid.
2. In the speech, Mandela expresses pride in being African and describes the diversity of the African people and their struggles against oppression.
3. He highlights the new constitution as an achievement that enshrines equality and human rights for all South Africans, establishing a democratic, non-racial society free from oppression and tyranny.
- Ahmad Mutawakkil was shot and found unconscious by villagers after evening prayers, deeply worrying them. The story then flashes back to his origins in a village transformed by the Booth family's socioeconomic changes and his upbringing helped by their daughter Sandra.
- He became a youth leader, sharing news and working as a liaison between anti-Japanese groups and the British. On liberation day, he gave rousing speeches stirring patriotism. Later he was found fatally shot, but his fighting spirit lived on in the village like their longing for his pro-independence words.
The Revolutionary Psychology of Dr. Amos N. Wilson_text only versionRBG Communiversity
1) The passage discusses the revolutionary psychology of Dr. Amos N. Wilson and emphasizes the need to join the battle for liberation through concrete action and building new institutions.
2) It criticizes assimilationist leadership that seeks integration into white systems of power and calls for a true nationalist movement that works to replace oppressive systems with Afrocentric alternatives through entrepreneurship and future-oriented work.
3) A true nationalist educates both children and adults, builds international networks, and delegates power rather than being obsessed with the past or destroyed civilizations. Nationalism requires concrete progress.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's eulogy for Minister Jackson MthembuPreggie Moodley
- Minister Jackson Mthembu has passed away from COVID-19, leaving a huge void in government and the country. He was respected across party lines for his dedication to serving the people of South Africa.
- As Minister in the Presidency, he was the public face of the government and offered hope, clarity and reassurance during the pandemic. He lifted spirits and brought professionalism to his tasks.
- He will be remembered for his kindness, principled nature, sense of humor and dedication to the ANC and South Africa. The country mourns the loss of a selfless leader who put the people and unity above all else.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes caring for all people impartially, taking action guided by humanity rather than discrimination, and uniting diverse groups through independent, voluntary service to address global issues.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes caring for all people impartially, taking action guided by humanity rather than discrimination, and uniting diverse groups through independent, voluntary service to address global issues.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes serving all people impartially, taking neutral action guided by human sympathy, and forming a united, inclusive, and universal movement to help those in need.
Global Eyes Magazine, Manitoba's African-Caribbean magazine. December, 2013, News, features and interesting stuff - something for everyone and all ages.
1) The document calls on black men to respect and protect black women, arguing this is the first duty of any civilized people.
2) It states that when a nation loses the power or will to respect women, it will lead to internal chaos and self-destruction.
3) The author argues black women have proven themselves as "queens" through their dedication to advancing black men's aims and goals, and they deserve the highest respect and veneration for their sacrifices throughout history.
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion because they th.docxdaniahendric
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.
—James Baldwin
Son,
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.
The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.
This article is adapted from Coates’s forthcoming book.
There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. This defiance is not to be much dwelled upon. Democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are specimens of sin, so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he was not merely being aspirational. At the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term people to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. As for now, it must be said that the elevation of the belief in being white was not achieved through wine tastings and ice-cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land.
That Sunday, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of a 12-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about “hope.” And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness wellin ...
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was widely regarded for his activism against institutionalized racism and leading South Africa's transition to multiracial democracy. As a young man, Mandela studied law and co-founded the African National Congress Youth League, advocating non-violent civil disobedience to fight discrimination. He was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned throughout the 1950s-60s for his opposition to apartheid. Mandela was incarcerated for over 27 years but continued to advocate for equality and democracy. After his release in 1990, he negotiated an end to apartheid and in 1994 became South Africa's first black president in
My Father’s Silence - A Personal Account of Trauma and its Origi.docxgilpinleeanna
My Father’s Silence - A Personal Account of Trauma and its Origins
Thomas Reissmann Travel videographer, writer and documentary filmmaker
Family Constellation therapist Mark Wolynn once said: “Just as we inherit our eye color and blood type, we also inherit the residue from traumatic events that have taken place in our family. Illness, depression, anxiety, unhappy relationships and financial challenges can all be forms of this unconscious inheritance.”
The same analysis can be utilized in reference to the history of chattel slavery, trauma and systemic racism in America. It was an inhumane system whose historical attributes can be still found in the American prison systems of today. This history has left hurtful and paralyzing residues of trauma, passed from one generation to the next within African American communities. There has been long-term collateral damage and an ongoing psychic wound which deserves to be healed with Radical Self-Care and by providing the emotional resources for the personal as well as the collective well-being of African American communities. Mark Wolyn teaches that “traumatic memories are transmitted through chemical changes in DNA”. There is a need to understand the conscious and unconscious inheritance of terror and systemic racism long-term.
My Father’s Silence is the true story of Houston resident Hitaji Aziz, who tells her story in the documentary Adversity and the Art of Happiness. It reflects the epigenetics of a family and the humanity of all families.
I grew up right outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a town called McKee’s Rocks in the 1950s. McKee’s Rocks was a large Italian community with smaller pockets of old world European immigrants. We also had Gypsies, Jews, one Chinese family and even smaller pockets of Blacks that had migrated from the south and its terrors.
I was born out of one of those Black families that migrated from the same place where they were owned. Their plantation was based in Evergreen, Alabama. The journey was headed by my great grandmother Sally and her husband William Liddell who died just before they reached Pittsburgh in the late 1920s. They were part of the great migration of ex-slaves and Blacks looking for more freedom and less terror. They were running; running hard for their lives, leaving all their possessions, except what they could pack and what they wore on their backs. My father’s family got to there on the same emotional journey, migrating from Atlanta, Georgia; running for a dream called Pittsburgh.
My father Jack Kirkland, was one the first African American men to be hired in the steel mill near our government owned low-income housing in those days. We called them the “projects” and it was the first time we had an indoor toilet. We lived by the sounds of the steel mills. The sirens of the steel mills were always in the background of our lives. We always knew when the work shift started and when it ended. Being hired in the mill was a big thing for a Black man in ...
6.2 My GuiltMy Guiltby Maya AngelouMy guilt is slavery’s .docxblondellchancy
6.2 My Guilt
“My Guilt"
by Maya Angelou
My guilt is “slavery’s chains,” too long
the clang of iron falls down the years.
This brother’s sold. This sister’s gone
is bitter wax, lining my ears.
My guilt made music with the tears.
My crime is “heroes, dead and gone”
dead Vesey, Turner, Gabriel,
dead Malcolm, Marcus, Martin King.
They fought too hard, they loved too well.
My crime is I’m alive to tell.
My sin is “hanging from a tree”
I do not scream, it makes me proud.
I take to dying like a man.
I do it to impress the crowd.
My sin lies in not screaming loud.
6.3 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Preface
by Frederick Douglass
IN the month of August, 1841, I attended an anti-slavery convention in Nantucket, at which it was my happiness to become acquainted with FREDERICK DOUGLASS, the writer of the following Narrative. He was a stranger to nearly every member of that body; but, having recently made his escape from the southern prison-house of bondage, and feeling his curiosity excited to ascertain the principles and measures of the abolitionists,—of whom he had heard a somewhat vague description while he was a slave,—he was induced to give his attendance, on the occasion alluded to, though at that time a resident in New Bedford.
Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence!—fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet panting for deliverance from their awful thraldom!—fortunate for the cause of negro emancipation, and of universal liberty!—fortunate for the land of his birth, which he has already done so much to save and bless!—fortunate for a large circle of friends and acquaintances, whose sympathy and affection he has strongly secured by the many sufferings he has endured, by his virtuous traits of character, by his ever-abiding remembrance of those who are in bonds, as being bound with them!—fortunate for the multitudes, in various parts of our republic, whose minds he has enlightened on the subject of slavery, and who have been melted to tears by his pathos, or roused to virtuous indignation by his stirring eloquence against the enslavers of men!—fortunate for himself, as it at once brought him into the field of public usefulness, “gave the world assurance of a MAN,” quickened the slumbering energies of his soul, and consecrated him to the great work of breaking the rod of the oppressor, and letting the oppressed go free!
I shall never forget his first speech at the convention—the extraordinary emotion it excited in my own mind—the powerful impression it created upon a crowded auditory, completely taken by surprise—the applause which followed from the beginning to the end of his felicitous remarks. I think I never hated slavery so intensely as at that moment; certainly, my perception of the enormous outrage which is inflicted by it, on the godlike nature of its victims, was rendered far more clear than ever. There stood one, in physical proportion and stature commanding and exact—in intellect richly endowed—in natural eloqu ...
This document contains three speeches about women as leaders from different historical periods:
1) Sojourner Truth's 1851 speech arguing that women deserve equal rights and should be able to determine their own destiny, as women have strengths and abilities equal to men.
2) Amy Jacques Garvey's 1925 newspaper column advocating for women taking leadership roles alongside men in developing their race and civilization.
3) Michelle Obama's 2016 speech in New Hampshire about women facing both changing and ongoing challenges in achieving equality.
The document discusses Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez's experience as a Latino man living with AIDS. It describes how being diagnosed with AIDS in 1990 forced him to reinvent his life and sense of identity. It discusses how AIDS embodied the ultimate abjection, and how Latino queer bodies with AIDS destabilize social norms. Sandoval-Sánchez explores how identity is shaped at the intersection of race, sexuality, illness and migration for Latino men with AIDS.
This document discusses the process for requesting writing assistance from the website HelpWriting.net. It outlines 5 steps: 1) Create an account with a password and email, 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline, 3) Review bids from writers and choose one based on qualifications, 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment, and 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction. The website promises original, high-quality content and refunds for plagiarized work.
The United Workers Party honors Nelson Mandela, who passed away at age 95. Mandela is admired worldwide for his uncommon humanity in forgiving those who imprisoned him for 27 years due to his political beliefs supporting democracy and racial equality in South Africa. Rather than seeking revenge after his imprisonment, Mandela pursued peace and avoided violence, establishing freedom, racial equality and peaceful change from white to black rule in South Africa. As a messenger of freedom and racial equality, Mandela inspired mankind by convincing South Africans that change could be achieved through peaceful means rather than hostility. He taught the world that civil discourse leads to a more harmonious society. Mandela will be long remembered for spreading freedom and peace worldwide.
- Ahmad Mutawakkil was shot and found unconscious by villagers after evening prayers, deeply worrying them. The story then flashes back to his origins in a village transformed by the Booth family's socioeconomic changes and his upbringing helped by their daughter Sandra.
- He became a youth leader, sharing news and working as a liaison between anti-Japanese groups and the British. On liberation day, he gave rousing speeches stirring patriotism. Later he was found fatally shot, but his fighting spirit lived on in the village like their longing for his pro-independence words.
The Revolutionary Psychology of Dr. Amos N. Wilson_text only versionRBG Communiversity
1) The passage discusses the revolutionary psychology of Dr. Amos N. Wilson and emphasizes the need to join the battle for liberation through concrete action and building new institutions.
2) It criticizes assimilationist leadership that seeks integration into white systems of power and calls for a true nationalist movement that works to replace oppressive systems with Afrocentric alternatives through entrepreneurship and future-oriented work.
3) A true nationalist educates both children and adults, builds international networks, and delegates power rather than being obsessed with the past or destroyed civilizations. Nationalism requires concrete progress.
President Cyril Ramaphosa's eulogy for Minister Jackson MthembuPreggie Moodley
- Minister Jackson Mthembu has passed away from COVID-19, leaving a huge void in government and the country. He was respected across party lines for his dedication to serving the people of South Africa.
- As Minister in the Presidency, he was the public face of the government and offered hope, clarity and reassurance during the pandemic. He lifted spirits and brought professionalism to his tasks.
- He will be remembered for his kindness, principled nature, sense of humor and dedication to the ANC and South Africa. The country mourns the loss of a selfless leader who put the people and unity above all else.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes caring for all people impartially, taking action guided by humanity rather than discrimination, and uniting diverse groups through independent, voluntary service to address global issues.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes caring for all people impartially, taking action guided by humanity rather than discrimination, and uniting diverse groups through independent, voluntary service to address global issues.
Humanity summarizes the key themes of humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality expressed in the document. The document discusses how these concepts are essential to protecting life, respecting all people, and working towards lasting peace and justice for humanity. It emphasizes serving all people impartially, taking neutral action guided by human sympathy, and forming a united, inclusive, and universal movement to help those in need.
Global Eyes Magazine, Manitoba's African-Caribbean magazine. December, 2013, News, features and interesting stuff - something for everyone and all ages.
1) The document calls on black men to respect and protect black women, arguing this is the first duty of any civilized people.
2) It states that when a nation loses the power or will to respect women, it will lead to internal chaos and self-destruction.
3) The author argues black women have proven themselves as "queens" through their dedication to advancing black men's aims and goals, and they deserve the highest respect and veneration for their sacrifices throughout history.
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion because they th.docxdaniahendric
And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.
—James Baldwin
Son,
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the Far West Side of Manhattan. A satellite closed the miles between us, but no machinery could close the gap between her world and the world for which I had been summoned to speak. When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week.
The host read these words for the audience, and when she finished she turned to the subject of my body, although she did not mention it specifically. But by now I am accustomed to intelligent people asking about the condition of my body without realizing the nature of their request. Specifically, the host wished to know why I felt that white America’s progress, or rather the progress of those Americans who believe that they are white, was built on looting and violence. Hearing this, I felt an old and indistinct sadness well up in me. The answer to this question is the record of the believers themselves. The answer is American history.
This article is adapted from Coates’s forthcoming book.
There is nothing extreme in this statement. Americans deify democracy in a way that allows for a dim awareness that they have, from time to time, stood in defiance of their God. This defiance is not to be much dwelled upon. Democracy is a forgiving God and America’s heresies—torture, theft, enslavement—are specimens of sin, so common among individuals and nations that none can declare themselves immune. In fact, Americans, in a real sense, have never betrayed their God. When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” he was not merely being aspirational. At the onset of the Civil War, the United States of America had one of the highest rates of suffrage in the world. The question is not whether Lincoln truly meant “government of the people” but what our country has, throughout its history, taken the political term people to actually mean. In 1863 it did not mean your mother or your grandmother, and it did not mean you and me. As for now, it must be said that the elevation of the belief in being white was not achieved through wine tastings and ice-cream socials, but rather through the pillaging of life, liberty, labor, and land.
That Sunday, on that news show, I tried to explain this as best I could within the time allotted. But at the end of the segment, the host flashed a widely shared picture of a 12-year-old black boy tearfully hugging a white police officer. Then she asked me about “hope.” And I knew then that I had failed. And I remembered that I had expected to fail. And I wondered again at the indistinct sadness wellin ...
Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was widely regarded for his activism against institutionalized racism and leading South Africa's transition to multiracial democracy. As a young man, Mandela studied law and co-founded the African National Congress Youth League, advocating non-violent civil disobedience to fight discrimination. He was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned throughout the 1950s-60s for his opposition to apartheid. Mandela was incarcerated for over 27 years but continued to advocate for equality and democracy. After his release in 1990, he negotiated an end to apartheid and in 1994 became South Africa's first black president in
My Father’s Silence - A Personal Account of Trauma and its Origi.docxgilpinleeanna
My Father’s Silence - A Personal Account of Trauma and its Origins
Thomas Reissmann Travel videographer, writer and documentary filmmaker
Family Constellation therapist Mark Wolynn once said: “Just as we inherit our eye color and blood type, we also inherit the residue from traumatic events that have taken place in our family. Illness, depression, anxiety, unhappy relationships and financial challenges can all be forms of this unconscious inheritance.”
The same analysis can be utilized in reference to the history of chattel slavery, trauma and systemic racism in America. It was an inhumane system whose historical attributes can be still found in the American prison systems of today. This history has left hurtful and paralyzing residues of trauma, passed from one generation to the next within African American communities. There has been long-term collateral damage and an ongoing psychic wound which deserves to be healed with Radical Self-Care and by providing the emotional resources for the personal as well as the collective well-being of African American communities. Mark Wolyn teaches that “traumatic memories are transmitted through chemical changes in DNA”. There is a need to understand the conscious and unconscious inheritance of terror and systemic racism long-term.
My Father’s Silence is the true story of Houston resident Hitaji Aziz, who tells her story in the documentary Adversity and the Art of Happiness. It reflects the epigenetics of a family and the humanity of all families.
I grew up right outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in a town called McKee’s Rocks in the 1950s. McKee’s Rocks was a large Italian community with smaller pockets of old world European immigrants. We also had Gypsies, Jews, one Chinese family and even smaller pockets of Blacks that had migrated from the south and its terrors.
I was born out of one of those Black families that migrated from the same place where they were owned. Their plantation was based in Evergreen, Alabama. The journey was headed by my great grandmother Sally and her husband William Liddell who died just before they reached Pittsburgh in the late 1920s. They were part of the great migration of ex-slaves and Blacks looking for more freedom and less terror. They were running; running hard for their lives, leaving all their possessions, except what they could pack and what they wore on their backs. My father’s family got to there on the same emotional journey, migrating from Atlanta, Georgia; running for a dream called Pittsburgh.
My father Jack Kirkland, was one the first African American men to be hired in the steel mill near our government owned low-income housing in those days. We called them the “projects” and it was the first time we had an indoor toilet. We lived by the sounds of the steel mills. The sirens of the steel mills were always in the background of our lives. We always knew when the work shift started and when it ended. Being hired in the mill was a big thing for a Black man in ...
6.2 My GuiltMy Guiltby Maya AngelouMy guilt is slavery’s .docxblondellchancy
6.2 My Guilt
“My Guilt"
by Maya Angelou
My guilt is “slavery’s chains,” too long
the clang of iron falls down the years.
This brother’s sold. This sister’s gone
is bitter wax, lining my ears.
My guilt made music with the tears.
My crime is “heroes, dead and gone”
dead Vesey, Turner, Gabriel,
dead Malcolm, Marcus, Martin King.
They fought too hard, they loved too well.
My crime is I’m alive to tell.
My sin is “hanging from a tree”
I do not scream, it makes me proud.
I take to dying like a man.
I do it to impress the crowd.
My sin lies in not screaming loud.
6.3 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Preface
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Eulogy by president cyril ramaphosa at the funeral of winnie madikizela
1. EULOGY BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA AT THE FUNERAL OF WINNIE
MADIKIZELA-MANDELA
ORLANDO STADIUM, SOWETO
14 APRIL 2018
Programme Directors, Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and Chairperson of the
NCOP Thandi Modise,
Members of the Mandela and Madikizela families,
HE President Denis Sassou Nguesso,
HE President Hage Geingob,
Deputy President David Mabuza,
Speaker of the National Assembly Ms Baleka Mbete,
Vice Presidents and Prime Ministers,
Visiting Former Presidents and Prime Ministers,
Ministers and Deputy Ministers,
Heads of Delegations from Sister Countries and Multilateral Organisations,
Your Majesties and all Traditional Leaders,
Distinguished International Leaders,
Leaders of South African Political Parties,
Members of Parliament,
Heads of Delegations from Fraternal Parties,
Friends, Comrades,
Fellow South Africans
We gather here to bid farewell to Mam’ Winnie Nomzamo Madikizela Mandela – a
mother, a grandmother, a great grandmother, a sister, a great leader who we have
come to refer to as the Mother of our Nation.
Just as we are burdened by the sorrow of her death, so too are we comforted by
the richnessand profound meaning of her life.
The pain we carry in our hearts cannot be extinguished.
Nor should we be denied our joy in recalling the life of so wondrous a person.
We gather here not only to pay our final respects to a great African woman, but
to affirm the common humanity that, through her life, she revealed in us.
Her life was dedicated to the unity of the daughters and sons of the African soil.
2. Her life was dedicated to the unity of the oppressed of all nations.
In death, she has brought us all together, from near and far, across many nations
and continents, to mourn, to pay homage, to remember and to fondly reminisce.
In death, she has demonstrated that our many differences along political party and
racial linesand the numerous disputes we may have areeclipsed by our shared
desire to follow her lead in building a just, equitable and caring society.
Hers was a life of service.
It was a life of compassion.
She chose as her vocation the alleviation of the suffering of others.
She trained and worked as one who provides support and care and comfort to those
most deeply affected by poverty, hunger and illness.
Yet, like many of the great leaders of her generation, she understood that the
suffering she encountered did not happen on the edges of society.
Such suffering defined society.
She saw for herself the deliberate intent of the apartheid rulers to impoverish the
people of this country.
Her conscience, her convictions, left her with no choice but to resist.
She felt compelled to join a struggle that was as noble in its purpose as it was
perilous in its execution.
She felt compelled to speak when others were rendered silent.
She felt compelled to organise, to mobilise, to lead when those who led our
people had beensent across the bay to the Island, whilst others were forced to
flee beyond our borders or were martyred by a state that knew no mercy.
She felt compelled to pick up the spear where ithad fallen.
It was a spear that, throughout the darkest moments of our struggle, she wielded
with great courage, unequivocal commitment and incredible skill.
Her formidable will was matched by a keen political sense and a presence that
inspired both awe and admiration.
As a potent symbol of resistance, as the steadfast bearer of the name ‘Mandela’, she
was seen by the enemy as a threat to the raciststate.
She was an African woman who – in her attitude, her words and her actions –
defied the very premise of apartheid ideology and male superiority.
3. Proud, defiant, articulate, she exposed the lie of apartheid.
She laid bare the edifice of patriarchy.
She challenged the attitudes, norms, practices and social institutions that
perpetuated – in ways both brutal and subtle – the inferior status of women.
Loudly and without apology, she spoke truth to power.
And it was those in power who, insecure and fearful, visited upon her the most
vindictive and callous retribution.
Yet, through everything, she endured.
They could not break her.
They could not silence her.
After Nelson Mandela was jailed, she said:
“They think, because they have put my husband on an island, that he will be
forgotten. They are wrong. The harder they try to silence him, the louder I will
become!”.
And she became evermore so bold and loud.
They thought they could ‘banish’ her toBrandfort.
They miscalculated greatly because in truth,they sent her to live among her people –
to share in their trials, tribulations and hardships, to share their hopes and
aspirations, and to draw courage from their daily struggle againstthe tyranny of
racial subjugation.
The enemy expected her to return from Brandfort diminished, broken and defeated.
They expected her to succumb to the excruciating pressure of years of solitary
confinement, harassment and vilification.
Instead, she emerged from these tormentsemboldened, driven by a burning desire to
give voice to the aspirations of her people.
To give them hope. To give them courage.
To lead them to freedom.
It was not long ago that we celebrated with Mama Winnie her 80th birthday.
On that occasion, we recited the poem by Maya Angelou, “And still I rise”.
4. It is only fitting that we should do so again today,for Maya Angelou could easily have
written this poem to describe Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s life.
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard?
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
5. I rise
I rise
I rise”.
Like so many of our people she has lived with fear, pain, loss and disappointment.
And yet each day she rose with the nobleness of the human spirit.
They sought to denigrate her with bitter and twisted lies, but still she rose.
They wanted to see her broken, with bowed head and lowered eyes, and weakened
by soulful cries, but still she rose.
As we bid her farewell, we are forced to admit that too often as she rose, she rose
alone.
Too often, we were not there for her.
The day after she died, the ANC’s top six leaders went to her home to pay our
condolences to her family.
Zenani Mandela, reflecting on her mother’s life and overcome by emotion, said: “My
mother suffered. She had a very difficult life.”
Then she burst into tears.
That statement and those tears have stayed with me since that day.
Zenani’s tears revealed Mam’ Winnie’s wounds.
It brought to mind the moment when Jesus said to the apostle Thomas as recorded
in the book of John 20:27:
“Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side.”
In essence, Jesus was saying to the apostle: “Touch my wounds.”
During this period of mourning many South Africans have been touching Mam’
Winnie’s wounds.
It ought to have been done long ago. For she wore the gaping wounds of her people.
She had been left to tend her wounds on her own for most of her life.
Left alone to fend for herself only caused her more pain.
But she touched our wounds all the time.
When we lost our loved ones, when people were in pain, overcome with anger,
prone to violence, she came to touch our wounds.
6. She bore witness to our suffering.
She bandaged our wounds.
We did not do the same for her.
In her book ‘Part of My Soul Went with Him’, she wrote:
“I have ceased a long time ago to exist as an individual. The ideals, the political
goals that I stand for, those are the ideals and goals of the people in this country.
They cannot just forget their own ideas. My private self doesn’t exist. Whatever they
do to me, they do to the people in the country. I am and will always be only a political
barometer.
“From every situation I have found myself in, you can read the political heat in the
country at a particular time. When they send me into exile, it’s not me as an
individual they are sending. They think that with me they can also ban the political
ideas. But that is a historical impossibility. They will never succeed in doing that. I am
of no importance to them as an individual. What I stand for is what they want to
banish. I couldn’t think of a greater honour.”
Her healing from the deep wounds inflicted on her was incomplete.
We must continue to touch Mama’s wounds, acknowledge her immense pain and
torment, and pass on the stories of her suffering to future generations so that it may
always be known that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was a giant, a pathfinder, a
soldier, a healer, a champion of people’s struggles and forever the Mother of the
Nation.
We must also recognise our own wounds as a nation.
We must acknowledge that we are a society that is hurting, damaged by our past,
numbed by our present and hesitant about our future.
This may explain why we are easily prone to anger and violence.
Many people saw Mam’ Winnie as their mother because her own wounds made her
real and easy to relate to.
It is only when you experience real pain yourself that you can recognise it in others
and offer comfort.
That is what Mam’ Winnie did for decades, particularly when she stood alone
as a bulwark against the apartheid regime, when she wiped away people’s tears,
carried their coffins and inspired violence-fatigued communities to carryon.
Mam’ Winnie was a witness to the truths andhorrors of our nation, not only because
of her own hardships but because of her courage.
7. Like the women who went to Jesus’s tomb after the men ran away, she was
perpetually in the trenches, never afraid that it would be too much for her to bear.
When it was safe to do so, the men took over again and the women were relegated
to a supporting role.
Mam’ Winnie provided leadership at the most difficult periods and sought no reward.
Like women throughout our society do every day, she toiled and never claimed
glory.
Mam’ Winnie was universal and timeless.
As we continue to touch her wounds, we must be brave enough to share her life
and legacy across our society and with the people she loved.
Shortly before her death, we had a conversation about her concerns, her worries and
her wishes.
She spoke of her deep desire for unity and the renewal not only
of the movement that she loved dearly, but of the nation.
She wanted a South African nation that wouldheal the divisions of the past and
eradicate the inequality and injustice of the present.
She wanted us to honour the commitment in the Freedom Charter that the people
should share in the country’s wealth and that the land should be shared
amongst those who work it and be returned.
She spoke of many thoughts she had about how the revolutionary ideals and
morality of her movement should be restored and not be undermined by corruption
and self-enrichment.
Just as Mam’ Winnie has united us in sorrow, let us honour her memory by uniting in
common purpose.
Let us honour her memory by pledging here that we will dedicate all our resources,
all our efforts, all our energy to the empowerment of the poor and vulnerable.
Let us honour her memory by pledging here that we will not betray the trust of her
people, we will not squander or steal their resources, and that we will serve them
diligently and selflessly.
The Mother of the Nation has died, but she is not gone.
She lives on in the young girl who today still walks the dusty streets of Mbongweni,
resolutethat her life will not be defined by the poverty into which she was born, nor
constrained by the attitudes to women that seek to demean her existence.
8. She lives on in the domestic worker who is determined that the suffering and
sacrifice of her many years of servitude will not be visited on her children.
She lives on in the prisoner who regrets his choices as much as he bemoans his
circumstances, who dearly seeks another chance to make a better life for his family.
She lives on in the engineer, who has defied discrimination and prejudice to build a
career for herself in a field so long reserved for a privileged few.
She lives on in the social worker who tends to those in society who are neglected
and abused, asking nothing for himself but the opportunity to serve.
She lives on in the Palestinian teenager who refuses to stand by as he is stripped
of hishome, his heritage and his prospects for a peaceful, content and dignified life.
She lives on in the African-American woman, who though she lives in a country of
great prosperity and progress, is still weighed down by the accumulated prejudice of
generations.
She lives on even in the conscience of the apartheid security policeman who has yet
to atone for his murderous ways, but whose humanity she sought to salvage and
whose dignity she fought to restore.
She lives on in the movement to which she dedicated her life, as it seeks its way
back to the path along which she led it.
She lives on in the nation that called her ‘Mama’, as it strives each day to fulfil its
destiny as a united, peaceful, prosperous and just society.
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died, but she is not gone.
She lives on in all of us.
She inspires our actions.
She guides our struggles.
She remains our conscience.
May her soul rest in eternal peace.
May her spirit live forever.
Lala ngoxolo Nobantu, Ngutyana. Phapha. Makhalendlovu Msuthu. Msengetwa
qhawe lama qhawe.
I thank you.