Thursday, December 5, 2013

December 5: The Death of Nelson Mandela

Earlier this evening, I found out that Nelson Mandela had died.

I remember when I was an undergraduate. and apartheid was still in force in South Africa.  Mandela was still in prison.  I remember, at my little university in the middle of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, how there were student protests against South Africa.

And I remember when Mandela was released from prison.  In the news, there was dancing in the streets of Johannesburg, and the whole world celebrated.  Mandela, the first black man elected President of South Africa.  Mandela, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.  Mandela, the father of his nation.

Nelson Mandela was 95 years old.

Saint Marty salutes you.

R. I. P.

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