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Their behaviour, a poem by Dennis Brutus - tmate

 Their guilt is not so very different from ours: �who has not joyed in the arbitrary exercise of power or grasped for himself what might have been another�s and who has not used superior force in the moment when he could, (and who of us has not been tempted to these things?)�     varadero-bol.com trophaeenschau-alpnach.com alkawtarmarrakech.com radikifruits.com glitzerbombe.com mediprintbiomedical.com chinaresgrp.com   so, in their guilt, the bare ferocity of teeth, chest-thumping challenge and defiance, the deafening clamor of their prayers to a deity made in the image of their prejudice which drowns the voice of conscience, is mirrored our predicament but on a social, massive, organized scale which magnifies enormously as the private dehabille of love becomes obscene in orgies.

Happy birthday, Dennis! - earn

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Dennis Vincent Brutus (born November 28, 1924, Salisbury, Rhodesia) is a South African poet. A graduate of the University of Fort Hare and the University of the Witwatersrand, Brutus was formerly on the faculty of the University of Denver and Northwestern University. Dennis Brutus was an activist against the apartheid government of South Africa in the 1960s. He worked to get South Africa suspended from the Olympics; this eventually lead to the country's expulsion from the games in 1970. He joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department organisation (Anti-CAD), a group that organised against the Coloured Affairs Department which was an attempt by the government to institutionalise divisions between blacks and coloureds. The Anti-CAD was affiliated to the Trotskyist Fourth International in South Africa. He was arrested in 1963 and jailed for 18 months on Robben Island. https://ello.co/faqk24   https://torgi.gov.ru/forum/user/profile/1085532.page   https://www.behance.net/g...

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