Nelson Mandela, a truly selfless man, who actually put his life on the line for others said it best when he stated " a saint is a sinner who keeps trying to do the right thing." He was a member of a royal family of his indigenous nation, an educated lawyer, a leader of Umkoto we Sizwe- the armed struggle unit of the ANC, a political prisoner, a fighter of racism and human righys abusers (most white South Africans), a the first freely and democratically elected president of a truly democratic South Africa wherein the Constitution he facilitated was the most truly emancipatory Constitution in that it enshrined human rights, civil rights, votting rights making all citizens regardless of race, disability, language, religion creed, and sexual orientation equal before the law and in exrcise of their individual rights - making South Africa the first nation to make gay marriage a constituional right....he lived and walked the talk...
Lou Reed always walked on the wild side starting with his Velvet Underground and Nico as a member of Andy Warhol's Factory entourage - he played with passion and lived passionately as a human knwoing that love comes in the forms of a genetic woman or a transgendered m to f...that is living and walking the talk...
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the inicidents of clerical abuse of children in order to deal with the issue openly as the Roman Catholic Church is hemorraging members - especially in Latin America even while it remains the world's largest and richest landholder with the world's richest and best asseted bank....
Lou Reed always walked on the wild side starting with his Velvet Underground and Nico as a member of Andy Warhol's Factory entourage - he played with passion and lived passionately as a human knwoing that love comes in the forms of a genetic woman or a transgendered m to f...that is living and walking the talk...
Pope Francis has created a commission to study the inicidents of clerical abuse of children in order to deal with the issue openly as the Roman Catholic Church is hemorraging members - especially in Latin America even while it remains the world's largest and richest landholder with the world's richest and best asseted bank....
