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Madiba Memorial speech, Obama spot on

No one could have said it better, Obama unleashed inspiring venom on not only dictators or himself but all of us but all of us in our spheres of influence. He spoke not like an American but one of us the suppressed living in what I would call neo-apartheid era. The deeply motivating speech, provoked self-introspection of all of us as individuals, individuals remembering Madiba. It removed the sympathetic veil Dictators were wearing yet remembering the life of a cattle boy whose principles and values they dont implement. Those were the aspects Obama ignited in remembering Mandela. When a real hero or heroin is remembered or buried rains have to fall and heavily fall. Unplanned things smoothly run. That to me as an African describes a person respected by the heavens. A dream for our dictators who joined the rest of the world in remembering Madiba during the memorial service. Obama did the most decent and African manner in which we take advantage of the good the dead has don...