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Desmond Tutu RIP

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  • PrincessFiona
    PrincessFiona Posts: 5,491
    edited December 2021
    AddicksAddict said:
    PrincessFiona said:
    seth plum said:
    PrincessFiona said:
    seth plum said:
    PrincessFiona said:
    seth plum said:
    He also said ‘There comes a point where we have to stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why people are falling in’.
    Seems a perfect statement in relation to the poor desperate folk making dangerous channel crossings on flimsy rubber dinghys.
    We know why they are coming. What we need to be able to do is more easily distinguish between the varying reasons for it - but for a different thread
    Yes a different thread. To my thinking it was water that created the link, a river and the sea.
    Yeah, not like you to politicise a discussion
    Seriously?
    Holyjo list quotes but they’re not ‘political’. Like number 4.
    I mention one quote, and liken it to a humanitarian crisis and it is ‘political’?

    Yes
    We're celebrating the life and mourning the loss of one of the great men of our lifetimes.  Park it elsewhere, eh?
    Yes, my point
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,934
    Was my mum's neighbour in Kingston. "A lovely man." RIP
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    There is a Desmond Tutu peace park near Grove Park.
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,903
    RIP
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,669
    Been watching clips of him with the Dalai Lama.
    Didn’t realise they were such good friends.

    Beautiful human.
    May he RIP ♥️ 
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,412
    edited December 2021
    I shall think of you every time Charlton are hanging on 2-1 only to succomb to the inevitable 9th minute of extra time defensive howler! Tutu.

    RIP
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,568
    A remarkable man. RIP.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,568
    A remarkable man. RIP.
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,851
    You can say that again.
  • AndyG
    AndyG Posts: 5,946
    A force for good throughout his life.
    RIP 

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  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,622
    seth plum said:
    There is a Desmond Tutu peace park near Grove Park.
    He lived in Grove Park for a number of years in the 70's. Was honorary curate at St Augustines.
  • Ormiston_Addick
    Ormiston_Addick Posts: 8,817
    Rob7Lee said:
    seth plum said:
    There is a Desmond Tutu peace park near Grove Park.
    He lived in Grove Park for a number of years in the 70's. Was honorary curate at St Augustines.
    Lived in Grove Park and was Curate at a local church from 1971-1974, has a memorial garden built for him in the wonderful Chinbrook Meadows.

    An incredible man whose deep morality and impeccable Christian values played a crucial role in the struggle to bring down Apartheid in South Africa.
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    Exactly the sort of person who should have been a leading cleric, clear-sighted, moral and filled with a quantity of love that allowed for forgiveness of many more than the rest of us might manage.

    A man filled with Holiness, without ever claiming to be, if there is a God, the one that secured his service would be the type I'd want to see.

    RIP.
  • German
    German Posts: 95
    Desmond Tutu was a true Titan of the South African struggle over oppression, injustice & apartheid. I had the absolute pleasure to meet him when introduced by our mutual friend Lindiwe Mabusa when she was the South African High Commissioner to London . . . He was both humble & very friendly. 
    Sadly Lindiwe also passed away earlier this month on December 6th 🥲🥲 💔  . . . 
    RIP Lindiwe & Desmond. . Gone but never forgotten ❤️🙏🙏 . 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,838
    RIP
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,934
    Whoops! My mistake. Desmond Tutu was my mum's neighbour (but one) when she lived in Chinbrook Road Grove Park (not in Kingston). She says he was the vicar at St Augustine's and she shook his hand a few times after services.
  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    A man of peace and a force for good.

    A ray of sunshine.

    He will be missed.

    RIP

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