Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four hour Harvard visit yesterday, Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond M Tutu charged that U.S. investment in South Africa directly supports apartheid, his country's state mandated system of segregation...
...Tutu told a Memorial Church audience of almost 500 listeners of the plight of his country's political prisoners and the lack of civil rights which Black South Africans face. He then said, "That is the kind of system that those who invest in South Africa are buttressing, whether they like...
...would all be laughable were it not so stupid, and one has to wonder what Bishop Tutu must think of such petty one-upsmanship. It seems clear that the issue centers around a relatively simple and unimportant miscommunication regarding the scheduling of a prominent visitor, without intentional snubs from either side. Yet the incident is unfortunate nonetheless, for it demonstrates a painful insensitivity among Harvard officials on at least two counts...
More troubling still is the inappropriateness of the town gown till given the stature of the visitor and the cause he represents. Tutu was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to win political and economic justice for South Africa's nine million Blacks and "Coloureds," who currently live under the oppressive rule of a minority white government. The urgency of this cause cannot be overstated and it is testimony to its extreme nature that organizations such as the city of Boston have taken the unusual step of corporate divestiture. In fact, the irony of the University's indignant...
...apology to Mayor Flynn, Rosen explained that the University had not known Flynn's office was arranging a visit by Tutu, and that therefore the comments about stealing Harvard's thunder were "inappropriate." But what renders Tutu's appearance appropriate, either in Boston or Harvard or anywhere, has nothing to do with the administrative arrangements behind the visits, but rather the substance of his call for justice for South African Blacks. That is a call which can only thunder more resoundingly the more frequently it is heard...