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From the New York Times:
Albertina Sisulu, considered by many to be the mother of South Africa's liberation struggle, a woman who was hounded and jailed by the apartheid government but who lived to see her children assume leadership roles in a democratic nation, died here on Thursday. She was 92.
The African National Congress confirmed her death.
Mrs. Sisulu's passing extinguishes another light of a generation that fought one of the great moral battles of the 20th century. Since her death, virtually every one of this nation's leaders have come to her home to offer condolences. Only Nelson Mandela has been conspicuously absent. He is increasingly frail, and members of the Sisulu family visited him instead.
A humble but forceful woman, Mrs. Sisulu was the widow of Walter Sisulu, one of Mr. Mandela's earliest political mentors, who died in 2003. She kept her dignity through decades of government harassment. Mr. Sisulu was imprisoned for 26 years, and she herself was repeatedly jailed, held incommunicado and "banned," a restriction limiting where she could go and how many people she could see.
"But try as they might, they could not break her spirit, they could not make her bitter, they could not defeat her love," Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu said in one of the many tributes offered after her death.
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By: ADMR on 6/06/2011 11:35AM
Behind Every GREAT Man, Stands A GREAT Woman - RIP Says The VIP!
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By: judith dejohnette-franks on 6/08/2011 5:37PM
You are amoung the kings......way above them...................
Love you Always
Judith
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By: Burke Moore on 6/08/2011 3:10PM
Love never dies only multiply!
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By: ed johnson on 6/06/2011 3:04PM
We need people like that, here in America; who will fight for what is good for the nation and is willing to forego hate, but blinding love for all. Stand up for human rights and never give up on your follow people. We are all one people who love and cry together. Overcome prejudice and hate of others by extending yourself to the unknown and grow.
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By: J. Fann on 6/06/2011 9:19PM
To say we need people as such is an understatement. Nonetheless, people such as sister Albertina Sisulu will always become the fore-running martyrs for mankind just as long as "justice denied anywhere is justiice denied everywhere." To you Albertina Sisulu I say:
Memorable day is every day someone is remembered back to life. It is a day and moment in time when ones inner objective visions and feelings come alive in the joy and pain of the time of resurrection of those who are only touchable in the individual who give life, once again, to those who are not physical. Those who live on through and in the life of those remembering. The mothers, friends, fathers, enemies, daughters, sons and those who died for their freedom to die in order for those whom they know not can taste the liberty of life's freedom of sacrifice.
Never give power to anything a person believes is their source of strength - jufa
http://theillusionofgod.yuku.com
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By: James on 6/06/2011 10:57PM
Isn't it strange how everytime a black person stands up against the injustices of white supremacy,they are labeled as a Communist? So let me get this straight. To avoid the stigma of being called a Communist,blacks should not fight for equal rights,jobs or a decent education? That is an antiquated notion and the fact that you are still using it,speaks volumes.
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By: sam on 6/07/2011 5:56PM
Negroes don't want "equal rights", they want special favors from a socialist government that no other race gets. For example, quotas imposed by the federal government that promote Negroes ahead of more qualified whites and asians.
So stop lying by saying Negroes want "equal rights". If that were true, there would be no affirmative action for Negroes, they would have to compete with whites and asians with the same rules. Of course, they would then rarely get hired, as Negroes are less intelligent:
http://library.flawlesslogic.com/iq.htm
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By: J. Fann on 6/08/2011 10:00AM
It is the individual man who cast shadow of himself, and it is the individual who must overcome the final obstacle of himself. It has always been the self one had to overcome to gain mastery over. When one recaptures their dominance of will, shuts down the tongue; personalized interpretation of thought, and eliminate prejudicial speaking of life, living and death of anothers journey, it is then one can cry "It is finished. . .Into thy hand I commend my Spirit."
What are the shadows man cast in front, back, side, above, and under himself? Are not these shadows the trails and droppings of our yesterdays manna of thoughts and demonstration of living left behind on the journey living life to expand into the fullness of the day? Is it no ones own raccst attitudes of believing they are further ahead of those they find do not live up to their standard of integrity based upon the laws they have established according to their interpretations? Are not attitudes of believing one is smarter, more prone to selflessness, and all the drawbacks and faults one sees reflections within mind?
I FORGIVE!!! Only when one lives entirely within the light of forgiving, which follows no other course but its own, can one stand in that light unconditionally without bias, without which cannot differentiation can one comprehend loving ones neighbor as themself. All within this vision of understanding one can then say " who convinces me of sin."
Here you see a different kind of love displayed beyond the human senses, national pride; moral justice and the cry for revenge. No one considers this love for it does not meet man's prejudicial needs, judgmental slogans, and buttons of commitments. Forgiveness is also a criteria needed to be able to truly follow one's bliss.
You are never alone!
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Never give power to anything a person believe is their source of strength - Jufa
http://theillusionofgod.yuku.com
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By: James on 6/08/2011 12:49AM
@ Sam. First of all, the only person on this forum that's a liar is you! Every time I go to a black blog, some worthless, useless, racist, loud mouth says something derogatory about black people. Fool, we have been striving for equality for years and the struggle continues to this day. It will always be like this until racist pieces of inbred trash like you are spayed or neutered. Stop humping your sister and read a book.
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By: J. Fann on 6/12/2011 2:32AM
Every time resistance to words and ideology are presented, one dances with the devil. Resistance keeps alive the thought power of both ideologies. What do words matter to one who has been indoctrinated in thought and believe their message is justified? To change a mind, one must change acceptance of allowing thought patterns to find the corridors and rooms of ones consciousness.
The faithfulness of men to anything is their dependency upon being followers. Being a follower is entirely founded upon the platform if irresponsibility. This means one life is based in hope. Hope of itself is pure wishful thinking. It always leave one in an hypnotic dream.
To resist not evil is applicable here in the same tone of non-violence. The more opposition one exhibits to racism, which is not one sided, the more opposition is presented. Let it go, and let the dead bury the dead.
Never give power to anything a person believes is there source of strength. Does anyone here want to keep giving a voice to racism? Loose it and let it go.
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