Posted on 12/26/2021 8:36:14 AM PST by SeekAndFind
It’s hard to believe that, less than 30 years ago, South Africa was a nation riven by apartheid and segregation. To look back on that time period and realize that it wasn’t that long ago is astonishing. Brave men and women stood up and spoke out against the horrendous policy, and eventually, South Africa shook off the bond of apartheid.
Desmond Tutu was one of those voices who spoke of the importance of freedom for black South Africans, and now he is with his Heavenly Father. Tutu passed away on Sunday at the age of 90.
“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa, said South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in a statement.
Tutu joined the Anglican clergy as a young man and rose to prominence as a pastor and later as a bishop. In the late 1960s, Tutu began to speak out publicly against apartheid. In 1979 he said he supported an economic boycott of South Africa, which met with a reprimand by the South African government. The government seized his passport, which drew international attention. Tutu became an icon in the fight against apartheid, alongside Nelson Mandela.
The Nobel Prize Committee nominated Tutu for its Peace Prize every year from 1981 to 1984, and he finally won in 1984, citing his “role as a unifying leader figure in the campaign to resolve the problem of apartheid in South Africa.” He received hundreds of other awards and honorary doctorates throughout the course of his life.
The Anglican church promoted Tutu to the position of Bishop of Johannesburg in 1985 and Archbishop of Cape Town the following year. Both promotions met with protests from white South Africans
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Bidens, Obozos, Clintons, Mr. & Mrs. Kumala and Duke and Dutchess of Mendchitgo will all be in attendance at the funeral and will each deliver heartfelt eulogies for their beloved friend Rev Des.
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Yeah but did he have the vax?
Tutu was a communist. South Africa is worse off now than it was under apartheid and is going downhill fast.
Flame on, you Jew-hating racist Bolshevik!
Tutu goes “ta ta.”
“The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another chapter of bereavement in our nation’s farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans who have bequeathed us a liberated South Africa”
Just as with Otoken here, it is just bad manners to admit South Africa is a failed state. Look what these leftist “bequeathed” black South Aficans; the only people who would go there are from neighboring Zimbabwe...
I saw the original movie many years ago, probably 1979 or 1980. The bathtub scene is seared in my memory forever. I didn’t know they had sequels.
It is just bad manners to admit Africa is a failed continent.
I thought he’d died years ago. Bolshevik race-baiter in a dog collar and pink frock.
Ditto, and you seem too kind.
My thoughts? He’s dead, Jim.... that’s all need be said. Forget him and move on...
Some wit claimed that they should have given:
Two to Tutu too.
I’m sure Pat Robertson will miss his Diamond Mine partner.
I don’t think I’m ever going to agree with an Episcopalian Bishop or a (First World) Anglican Bishop about anything. Tutu did at least achieve something, and even if I wanted to dump on the guy I’d at least wait until he was buried.
Who could imagine? Suzy?
What was it before? Perhaps, people should stay conquered. I’ll send that email to fauci and the gang. We should all live under a boot.
Probably. I wondered why Hillary wasn’t at Robert Dole’s funeral. Is there a law that says politicians have to have funerals at the Washington National Cathedral? I wanted to see who was attending but I could not stand the pipe organ music. It’s like listening to 20 drunken cats running up and down the keyboard.
THAT will be my punishment when I die - locked in a room with a pipe organ. If that’s not enough punishment, then it will be tapes of the voices of some females from FOX NEWS or ANYONE who sings their sentences!
Tutu was a racist who simply demanded the use of government to hurt white people.
Indeed- through his promotion of another clear Communist who trained to be like Robert Mugabe— namely Nelson Mandela (and his clearly insane wife— with her burning tire “necklaces” murdering hapless S. African political rivals).
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