terça-feira, 10 de novembro de 2009

Celebrations


Yesterday was the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin’s wall fall.
It was a significant moment.
And maybe, somewhere in the future, there will be no more walls, either at national borders, city limits or dividing religions. Maybe!
But, for me, the main event happened since 1958, when I was born, or maybe during the last century, was not the fall of a wall but the opening of a door. And that was the freedom of Nelson Mandela, in 1990.
Why? Because South Africa was the last country where, by law, the colour of the skin was motive for segregation. And his freedom was, symbolic, the end of that. It was a major change in civilization! Maybe the biggest one over the last 1000 years!
Walls can be raised and thrown down. But racism is no longer a written law all over the world!


Texto e imagem: by me

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