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A tiredness of soul
FR MARTIN SIRJU
FR JACK CONLEY, an American Passionist priest, tells the story of a young graduate student going to visit Rosa Parks. Parks was the 42-year-old African American seamstress who on December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, sat down on one of the seats in a crowded public bus when racial laws disallowed her from doing so. The irate bus driver called the police. They came, arrested her, handcuffed her and fingerprinted her.
This doctoral student, many years later, would ask Parks in an interview, why she sat down that day in Montgomery. She said: “I sat down because I was tired. But it wasn’t my feet; my soul was tired.”
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Sunday 14 February 2021
Randolph Bharatt releases a lantern in memory of his slain daughter Andrea at Eddie Hart Grounds, Tacarigua on Friday night. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB -
“I hope everyone stay out and stay up and fight for women in this country.”
These were the words of Randolph Bharatt, father of kidnap and murder victim Andrea Bharatt, as he addressed a crowd of hundreds gathered at Eddie Hart Grounds, Tacarigua on the evening of funeral.
Bharatt thanked those who came out and said he was overwhelmed by the numbers of people.
“I’m thankful to see all these people, I never expected to see all this, it is overwhelming. This is history in Trinidad and Tobago. And this is for Trinidad, and the world, this is the beginning.”
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