#royonfailure — Public Fediverse posts
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1979: Paris
Darcy.> The Sorbonne confers the title of Doctor Honoris Causa on Darcy Ribeiro. He accepts, he says, on the merit of his failures.
.>Darcy has failed as an anthropologist, because the Indians of Brazil are still being annihilated. He has failed as rector of the university because the reality he wanted it to transform proved obdurate. He has failed as Minister of Education in a country where illiteracy never stops multiplying. He has failed as a member of a government that tried and failed either to make agrarian reform or to control the cannibalistic habits of foreign capital. He has failed as a writer who dreamed of forbidding history to repeat itself.
.> These are his #failures. These are his #dignities.
#EduardoGaleano in the #CenturyOfWind part of the #MemoryOfFire trillogy writes of #DarcyRibeiro. #GaleanoOnFailure makes me think of #RoyOnFailure #ArundhatiRoyOnFailure #EduardoGaleanoOnFailure #GaleanoOnDignities