Chelsea Cronin Final Poem

[0:00] Titlecard—Intense piano music plays. Over a black background, white text reads “’Invictus’ William Ernest Henley.”

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Apartheid- It is a struggle of the African people, inspired by their own suffering and their own experience. It is a struggle for the right to live. Statement from the dock at the opening of the defense case in the Rivonia Trial, Pretoria, South Africa 20 April 1964
 
[0:13] Black and white video clips of black South Africans plays behind the text:

Out of the night that covers me,
 
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I thank whatever gods may be
 
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For my unconquerable soul
 
[0:27] Music fades to the background. Fade into a speech by Nelson Mandela.

the depth of the pain we all carried in our hearts as we saw our country tear itself apart in a terrible conflict, and as we saw it spurned, outlawed and isolated by the peoples of the world.
 
[0:46] The poem continues, in front of apartheid-related pictures 

In the fell clutch of circumstance,
 
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I have not winced, nor cried aloud,
 
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Under the bludgeonings of chance,
 
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My head is bloody, but unbowed,
 
[1:07] A video clip from a documentary plays, showing men fighting each other. A voiceover says:

Their hopes and dreams soon evaporated, and South Africa erupted into the worst violence ever.

[1:17] Over a picture of Nelson Mandela greeting a crowd, the poem continues and text appears on screen:

Beyond this place of wrath and tears.
 
[1:22] Over a picture of a black boy and a white girl, whose faces are painted with the South African flag; text appears on screen:

Looms but the horror of the shade.
 
[1:27] Over a picture of a black and white person shaking hands; text appears on the screen:

And yet the menace of the years.
 
[1:32] Over three layers of pictures; text appears on screen: 

Finds and shall find me unafraid.
 
[1:38] A video clip of Nelson Mandela after being released from prison plays. A voiceover says:

Nelson Mandela, a free man, taking his first steps into a new South Africa. And a salute from Mr. Mandela and his wife Winnie greeting the people outside the fences of the Victor Verster Prison.
 
[1:55] Over a clip of a crowd of South Africans; text appears on the screen: 

It matters not how strait the gate.
 
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How charged with punishment the scroll
 
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I am the master of my fate
 
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I am the captain of my soul.
 
[2:15] Another clip of Mandela plays, and he says:

Create hope where there was once only despair.
 
[2:20] Bibliography to end.