5/27/2023 0 Comments Color war tutusListen to the voice of the people saying give peace a chance. What do you say to peace?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: What do you say to life?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: What do you say to freedom?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: What do you say to compassion?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: Well, we want to say, President Bush, listen to the voice of the people, for many times the voice of the people is the voice of God. What do you say to war?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: What do you say to death and destruction?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: What do you say to peace?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: I can’t hear you. Now I ask you: What do we say to war?ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: I can’t hear you. ![]() And we said yes to freedom, yes to democracy. And how can we say we want to drop bombs on our sisters and brothers, on our children? We are members of one family, God’s family, the human family. You know what? They are our sisters and brothers, for we belong in one family. They are human beings of flesh and blood. You know, those who are going to be killed in Iraq are not collateral damage. And those who want to wage war against Iraq must know it would be an immoral war. The just war says, “Have you exhausted all possible peaceful means?” And the world says, “No, we haven’t yet!” And any war before you have exhausted all possible peaceful means is immoral. Only the United Nations is that legitimate authority. And now people are marching, and people are demonstrating, because people are saying no to war!ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: We say no to war!ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: The just war theory says you need a legitimate authority to declare and to wage war. People marched and demonstrated, and apartheid ended. invasion of Iraq.ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: People marched and demonstrated, and the Berlin Wall fell, and communism was ended. We begin by going back to February 15, 2003, when Tutu spoke before a massive rally in New York to oppose the imminent U.S. He has been denied the right to a new trial based on racial bias in jury selection, has faced years of prosecutorial and police misconduct and judicial bias.ĪMY GOODMAN: Well, today we spend the rest of the hour hearing Archbishop Desmond Tutu in his own words. ![]() In 2011, he recorded a video calling for the release of imprisoned African American journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal.ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: Mumia’s guilty verdict must be considered more than flawed. He also spoke against torture and the death penalty. In 2014, he backed the Palestinian-led BDS, or boycott, sanctions and divestment movement. He condemned the Israeli occupation of Palestine, comparing it to apartheid South Africa. I am warning you: One day we will start praying for the defeat of the ANC government.ĪMY GOODMAN: Archbishop Desmond Tutu also slammed the ANC in 2011 for not granting a visa to the Dalai Lama, who was invited to attend his 80th birthday.Īrchbishop Tutu was a leading voice for human rights and peace around the world. I am warning you like I warned the nationalists. ![]() Zuma, you and your government don’t represent me. This is Bishop Tutu speaking in 2011.ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: Hey, Mr. He would later become a vocal critic of the ANC, the African National Congress, under the leadership of Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. I am obeying God.ĪMY GOODMAN: After the fall of apartheid and the election of Nelson Mandela as South Africa’s first Black president, Archbishop Tutu chaired the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, where he pushed for restorative justice. I am aware of the penalties attaching to this call. And I hope that white Anglicans will join their Black fellow Anglicans in that action. ![]() And in my view, the Reagan administration’s support and collaboration with it is equally immoral, evil and totally un-Christian, without remainder.ĪMY GOODMAN: In 1988, Archbishop Tutu risked jail by organizing a boycott of regional elections in South Africa.ĪRCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU: I urge Black people in this diocese not to vote in the October elections. That same year, 1984, he traveled to Washington, where he denounced the Reagan administration’s support for South Africa’s apartheid government.ĭESMOND TUTU: Apartheid is as evil, as immoral, as un-Christian, in my view, as Nazism. In 1984, Desmond Tutu won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting to end white minority rule in South Africa. The South African anti-apartheid icon died Sunday at the age of 90. AMY GOODMAN: Today we spend the hour remembering Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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