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Essential Change Was Heralded

"Nor should we kill Madiba," said Botsotso.
"You're twisting my words again!" I said. "What I said was that if he's released from prison he'll use his biblical stature to sanctify an accommodationist stance through which cosmetic changes would be heralded as essential changes-and the revolution would be up shit's creek!  We need his legacy but we don't need him."
~Incognegro, Frank B Wilderson