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Jean Rice's Speech from Riverside Church "Dear Mandela" Screening & Panel Discussion
I am here today, because since the historic transition to a participatory democracy based upon the concept of one person one vote which was declared in South Africa in 1994, my Abhalali brothers and sisters are still being treated as second class citizens and in far too many cases being hunted as if they were targets of a "Fugitive Slave Act."
I am here today to reiterate my brother S'bu Zikode's explanation of the Shackdwellers' "Living Politic", as he explained this credo at the university of Chicago on November 8, 2010: "Our living politic begins with the fact that all of us were created in the image of God and are therefore equal. Our living politic starts by recognizing the full and equal humanity of every human being. We struggle as human beings with equal worth and intelligence to all other human beings against a system that produces inequality by denying every day the humanity of some of us."