ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU ON TRIUMPHING OVER A RACIST GOVERNMENT (MFGALAXY 103)
HORRORS OF APARTHEID, THE RACIAL DIVIDE IN US CULTURE, THE LINK BETWEEN RACISM AND HOMOPHOBIA + SEXISM, AND THE POWER OF YOUTH TO CHANGE THE WORLD LISTEN/DOWNLOAD Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu is best known for his work to end decades of European racial supremacy in South African politics and create electoral democracy. Because all previous Cape Town Anglican archbishops were European, Tutu was the first South African to be appointed to the post and the primacy of the Anglican Church of South Africa. Following the retirement of formal apartheid, Tutu led the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission which granted amnesty from prosecution to anyone who confessed crimes to maintain or fight the Whitesupremacist regime. But it was his early struggles for justice that won him, in 1984, the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu continues to speak for peace and justice, including about ecological devasta...