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In Clint Eastwood's latest film, Invictus-Latin for "unconquered"-Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) gives a copy of William Ernest Henley's poem by the same name to Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), the captain of the South African national rugby team. The poem provided inspiration to Mandela during his 27 years in prisoa Now, the South African President hoped the poem would similarly inspire the Afrikaaner head of the nearly all-white team during its improbable run to win the 1995 World Cup.
Alas, what has happened in Washington is neither new nor unique. For far too long, African Americans in cities laige and small, all around the country, -chose to remain hands-ofif about HTV and AIDS. For most of the epidemic; we chose not to be the masters of our fate. We chose, instead, to allow others to determine our destiny by shortchanging us. Let there be no mistake: We can't curb this epidemic on the cheap, certainly not in communities that struggle not only with AIDS but with a perfect storm of other social and economic problems.We need to stand up and denounce the way the Black AIDS infrastructure in the United States has been starved to death by the "powers that be"from the federal government to charitable foundations to AIDS-service organizations. If we allow business as usual, then in many Black communities, the AIDS infrastructure will remain decrepit or nonexistent-a reality that leads many funders, in an invidious form of circular reasoning, to justify their decisions not to invest in those communities.[...] the DC health department itself lacked the capacity to appropriately disburse and monitor the grants.See the full content of this document
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Master of My Fate, Captain of My Soul
In Clint Eastwood's latest film, Invictus-Latin for "unconquered"-Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman) gives a copy of William Ernest Henley's poem by the same name to Francois Pienaar (Matt Damon), the captain of the South African national r...
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