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Thursday, December 30, 2021

The most dangerous of creatures

Entering the Museum of Apartheid, Johannesburg, South Africa

     We wanted to teach our grandson about history as well as nature on a trip to South Africa. We talked about Bishop Tutu and Nelson Mandela. We went to the Apartheid Museum as well as a local school and several safaris..
     In the museum, you walk among the sight and sounds of the most dangerous of animals - mankind. In one room you are confronted by hundreds of nooses hanging from the ceiling, It is a reminder of the lynch mobs that came for black Africans willing to stand for freedom. I stood between that room and another which was a representation of the cell that Mandala was locked in during prison. I could not move.
     I hope that my grandson took away just a small understanding of what human beings are capable of -both good and bad,

 

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