I’m not sure when I first learned about Archbishop Desmond Tutu, but I know exactly when I first saw him. I mean, really saw him. I was in college watching a documentary called “A Long Night’…
I was in college watching a documentary called “A Long Night’s Journey Into Day.” It told the story of four amnesty hearings during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in post apartheid South Africa. About 15 minutes into the film, a sweet old man, possibly diminutive but for the authority of his gentleness, appeared in an interview. He said, “This process is not about pillorying anybody. It’s not about prosecuting anybody.
Twenty years later, I’m still wrestling with these questions. They, and that man’s profound words, are why I made the movie “.” The film is finished now, but with the death of the Archbishop, I find myself back at the beginning again. This time I have a new question: How did this man, human and fallible, find and sustain such wisdom and such compassion? This is a man that waited until age 62 to vote, and yet bears no resentment for the country that dehumanized him.
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