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Nelson Mandela
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There's a lot to
love
about
Nelson Mandela,
and the thing I
love
about him most was expressed in an almost dismissed remark I heard him
make when some overly enthusiastic TV news
interviewer
went on and on and on about how
Nelson
had
transformed South
Africa.
I mean, he was literally slathering
Nelson
with acknowledgment, like you would put chocolate syrup on an
icecream sundae. It was almost embarrassing.
After a while
Nelson
said "You don't get it, do you?
Nothing
of
what happened
in
South Africa
was the work of any one individual.
The transformation of
South Africa
came out of a partnership between many, many people.".
That for me is who
Nelson Mandela
really is.
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