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...important that those who wish to dismantle the latter-day apartheid continue to speak candidly about it to the powerful in our country. They must also direct that same candor toward the powerless and move them to action, too. Put another way, leaders should not only speak truth to power, but they should also speak truth to impotence and generate power! To do less would only reshuffle the “separate but equal” deck in our schools...
...terrorist" like Nelson Mandela. (Mandela has improbably been morphed into a pacifist in the American imagination; he was in fact the proud commander of a guerrilla army who got his own military training in Algeria and saw "armed struggle" as an integral component of his campaign against the apartheid regime...
...these connections and their meaning appear decidedly historical at this point, they should not. The national elections in South Africa this past April have underscored both the achievements of the post-apartheid period—celebrating 10 years this year—as well as persistent problems—economic disparity key among them—that have maintained a discomforting continuity with the past. In the inaugural address for his second term as president, ANC leader Thabo Mbeki made a similar point, noting the brevity of time since 1994 and the end of apartheid, and yet the irreversible path...
...been widely recognized among activists by then, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Chief Albert Luthuli—then president of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first African recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1960—having issued a co-authored statement against apartheid in 1962. King himself had received an invitation to speak in South Africa by NUSAS, but was denied a visa by the South African government...
...recent elections in South Africa and the tenth anniversary of the end of apartheid should be a reminder, then, of common pasts and the ongoing need to engage with their legacies, here and abroad. Two separate actions by Harvard this past year—addressing the issue of class differences among Harvard applicants and emphasizing international experience as a key part of undergraduate education—in different ways possess the potential to be significant steps in this engagement. And if there is the suggestion that this commentary implies yet another rationale for U.S. intervention of a kind...