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...Mandela accepts Nobel Peace Prize...
...down to write this column one question kept running through my mind: How can I express the importance of Mandela? My friends camped outside of Tercentenary Theater last night; they not only wanted to see the man from their seats, they wanted to be close enough to smell him. But when all of us see that dignified Nobel Laureate on stage, dressed in Crimson robes and receiving one of the highest honors Harvard awards, and we cheer, do we know what we are cheering...
...told that in order to support our African brethren, we should boycott companies that invested in South Africa and send letters to the South African Embassy demanding the end of apartheid. I heard unfamiliar words used as rallying cries and the names of F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela thrown around by politicians and activists like Randall Robinson and C. Payne Lucas of Africare...
...class I was told that Mandela was some sort of political agitator (the word was used disdainfully by one history teacher) jailed for protests and violence. He was a member of the African National Congress, an underground guerilla organization which actively and viciously opposed the white moderate government...
...called Mandela a political prisoner and denounced a government in which the white minority oppressed a black majority. Yet I could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken...