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Yesterday Nelson Mandela died. Mandela was a legend of our times and his example of how people should live their lives in equality and reconciliation shames racists and the politics of hate the world over. My own meeting with Nelson Mandela in Cardiff in June 1998 had a profound effect on my life: A large crowd had gathered outside the hotel where he was staying prior to receiving the freedom of the freedom of the City of Cardiff hoping to catch a glimpse of the great man. Normally when a politician exits a hotel they do so with a wave to the crowd before sloping off into the waiting car, but Mandela was different. He went around the entire crowd of at least 200 people and shook everybody’s hand, not just the people at the front. Mandela knew that shaking hands with people meant something, it meant that you were a fellow traveller in life, no matter how rich or poor you were what colour your skin was or how able bodied you were... This is what many politicians do not understand with their fake smiles, waving and hollow platitudes like “we're all in it together.” (which amounts to the same thing as “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”). Mandela got this and that is why he was a bit late to the ceremony that day.
And now the news:
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Here is Mandela receiving the freedom of the city and county of Cardiff not long after I met him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBcIHTBDxs
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Yesterday Nelson Mandela died. Mandela was a legend of our times and his example of how people should live their lives in equality and reconciliation shames racists and the politics of hate the world over. My own meeting with Nelson Mandela in Cardiff in June 1998 had a profound effect on my life: A large crowd had gathered outside the hotel where he was staying prior to receiving the freedom of the freedom of the City of Cardiff hoping to catch a glimpse of the great man. Normally when a politician exits a hotel they do so with a wave to the crowd before sloping off into the waiting car, but Mandela was different. He went around the entire crowd of at least 200 people and shook everybody’s hand, not just the people at the front. Mandela knew that shaking hands with people meant something, it meant that you were a fellow traveller in life, no matter how rich or poor you were what colour your skin was or how able bodied you were... This is what many politicians do not understand with their fake smiles, waving and hollow platitudes like “we're all in it together.” (which amounts to the same thing as “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”). Mandela got this and that is why he was a bit late to the ceremony that day.
And now the news:
Here is Mandela receiving the freedom of the city and county of Cardiff not long after I met him:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYBcIHTBDxs
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