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30 June 2013 - Champ visits Robben Island second time
[Huffpoo] The White House said Obama's guide during the tour was 83-year-old South African politician Ahmed Kathrada, who also was held at the prison for nearly two decades and guided Obama on his 2006 visit to the prison as a U.S. senator. The president also saw the prison courtyard where Mandela planted grapevines that remain today, and where he and others in the dissident leadership would discuss politics, sneak notes to one another and hide writings."On behalf of our family, we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield. The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit," Obama wrote in the guest book in the courtyard.... Cuban government soon to provide guided tours of GITMO where the "shackles and cells" of Yankee colonialism, racism, and Islamophobia can finally be revealed. The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past. ~ Dreams of My Father. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-01-16 |
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