{"id":4481,"date":"2013-12-06T06:13:15","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T11:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2013-12-06T06:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T11:13:15","slug":"personal-reflection-remembering-nelson-mandela","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/2013\/12\/06\/personal-reflection-remembering-nelson-mandela\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Reflection: Remembering Nelson Mandela"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/dos\/files\/2013\/12\/32-131-36F-98-Free-Nelson-Mandela-LSM-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/dos\/files\/2013\/12\/32-131-36F-98-Free-Nelson-Mandela-LSM-poster-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"32-131-36F-98-Free Nelson Mandela LSM poster\" title=\"32-131-36F-98-Free Nelson Mandela LSM poster\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4482\" height=\"300\" width=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2013\/12\/32-131-36F-98-Free-Nelson-Mandela-LSM-poster-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/files\/2013\/12\/32-131-36F-98-Free-Nelson-Mandela-LSM-poster.jpg 801w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nelson Mandela was the shining example of grace and dignity on this  earth, with politics that tore at the limits of nonviolence within a  surreal, dystopian society. He awakened my intellectual fire and later  conquered a world.<\/p>\n<p>His words, work, and persistence insisted that I be conscious. He was  my Sengbe Pieh, Harriet Tubman, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Jr.,  and Angela Davis. He made me learn of front lines and about places I  rarely considered\u2014Angola, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, and Mozambique.<\/p>\n<p>I am so glad I got to be present with him\u2014a quick moment from within a  crowd. I felt my heart banging and I cried. I\u2019ll cry again.<\/p>\n<p>Long live his spirit that gave me the first movement in which I felt I  was an active participant. It pleases me that I will have deep memories  of the time we lived on this earth together.<\/p>\n<p>Peace to Nelson Mandela.<\/p>\n<p>___________________<\/p>\n<p>This reflection also appeared as part of BU Today&#8217;s &#8220;<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"BU Today: Temembering Nelson Mandela\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/remembering-nelson-mandela\/\">Remembering Nelson Mandela: BU community weighs antiapartheid leader\u2019s towering legacy<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela was the shining example of grace and dignity on this earth, with politics that tore at the limits of nonviolence within a surreal, dystopian society. He awakened my intellectual fire and later conquered a world. His words, work, and persistence insisted that I be conscious. He was my Sengbe Pieh, Harriet Tubman, Ella [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1495,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3766],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions\/4483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}