Hoje, 18 de julho de 2010, Nelson Mandela completa 92 anos. Dentre todos esses ícones - Gandhi, Luther King, Malcolm X etc - que abraçaram, cada um em seu contexto, uma causa a favor da igualdade de direitos, Mandela é sempre o que não me escapa à memória; digno de admiração, é, para mim, referência da capacidade mais bela inerente ao ser humano: o amor pelos outros; o amor capaz de arriscar a vida em prol de um bem comum, a liberdade. Ao maior líder anti-segregacionismo que a história já conheceu, a minha singela homenagem:
Rasta Courage - Soldiers of Jah Army (S.O.J.A)
Try and remember now just what has been done.
Enslavement, displacement of every nation.
And now to one nation, everyone hold their grudge.
Kind of makes me wonder about which side I'm on.
I don't defend white, and I don't defend black.
I defend truth and rights and all of that.
I work on situations where I'm at
Hold my position and never fall of track.
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
I never give no good vibes
and I never give up no truth.
Never trade my sanity for living in Babylon crew.
Vanity will never drive this man insane.
This man will walk alongside Jah again.
We see all of the pressure to conform today,
And I may sometimes bend,
but only as not to break.
Cause a life of iniquity for laziness' sake
Is a deal with the devil Rasta just can't make.
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
Looking back now upon all of the evidence
four hundred years and what those years have
really done, we talk of peace but at the
first sign of war. Bredren and bredren and
sistren ain't sistren no more. Without forgiveness
how will any war cease, while the heathen rage
Rastaman sitting at ease. No one will move a
muscle for some moral justice and with no justice there will be no peace
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
Enslavement, displacement of every nation.
And now to one nation, everyone hold their grudge.
Kind of makes me wonder about which side I'm on.
I don't defend white, and I don't defend black.
I defend truth and rights and all of that.
I work on situations where I'm at
Hold my position and never fall of track.
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
I never give no good vibes
and I never give up no truth.
Never trade my sanity for living in Babylon crew.
Vanity will never drive this man insane.
This man will walk alongside Jah again.
We see all of the pressure to conform today,
And I may sometimes bend,
but only as not to break.
Cause a life of iniquity for laziness' sake
Is a deal with the devil Rasta just can't make.
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
Looking back now upon all of the evidence
four hundred years and what those years have
really done, we talk of peace but at the
first sign of war. Bredren and bredren and
sistren ain't sistren no more. Without forgiveness
how will any war cease, while the heathen rage
Rastaman sitting at ease. No one will move a
muscle for some moral justice and with no justice there will be no peace
Nah give up my faith!
Though Babylon rage,
I and I will strive until
the end of my days, Rasta Courage
go against society, Rasta courage.
Mandela com certeza é a figura mais amada na África do Sul, e não é a toa...
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