To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.
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And Experts Joining us this evening. My pal and colleague Tyler Matheson, hampton pierceson, john harwood are with us but i want to begin with chris bishop, live outside mandelas home. You see the scene. People gathering to celebrate his life. Chris, can you describe whats going on and what is the feeling, what is the basic sense there . Reporter well, whats happening at the moment, the police have actually, there are so many people around, the police have closed off the roads around Nelson Mandelas home in johannesburg where he passed away this evening. But there are people there, there are people with flags, people are crying, people are coming to sing and a bit further away at Nelson Mandelas former home in soweto, where he lived when he was a young lawyer in the 1950s and early 1960s, when he went on the ground, there were people gathering there, singing songs, celebrating his life. Some people are crying and some people are consoling each other. It really is a celebration of a lif
Fight against apartheid. The system of white rule over the majority black population. To feel that it is for us to continue talking nonviolence and peace. He was jailed for organizing demonstrations as well as treason and sabotage. He spent 27 years behind bars, but his jailing fueled the fires of freedom. His plight became an International Symbol of oppression. International businesses boycotted south africa until the government finally relented and released mandela in 1990. The famous prisoner instantly became a superstar who energized the people and became the first black person to run for president. And with the South African black population voting for the first time, mandela won in a landslide. The country celebrated and so did the rest of the world. But behind the scenes, there was trouble in his personal life. There was a messy divorce with his wife, winnie, who stood behind him during his years in jail. Nelson mandela, whose 9300th birthday was celebrated across south africa a