What a sight! Many ladies showed up in the traditional South African doek scarf to the memorial service for Winnie Mandela at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church:
Pastor Calvin Butts reminded mourners:
"I went back to look: Sojourner Truth carried a gun, Harriet Tubman carried a gun, Ida B. Wells carried a gun. And some of you in here tonight got guns. These sisters were not crazy. They understood that the nature of the struggle meant, that somebody...You know my old expression, you know, 'Nobody likes to fight, but somebody better know how.' And Winnie Mandela knew how!"
Pastor Calvin Butts reminded mourners:
"I went back to look: Sojourner Truth carried a gun, Harriet Tubman carried a gun, Ida B. Wells carried a gun. And some of you in here tonight got guns. These sisters were not crazy. They understood that the nature of the struggle meant, that somebody...You know my old expression, you know, 'Nobody likes to fight, but somebody better know how.' And Winnie Mandela knew how!"
