A new film rejects the popular narrative and recasts the former president, 96, as hugely prescient thinker, particularly on climate change
Megan Mayhew Bergman – Mon 3 May 2021 14.39 BST THE GUARDIAN
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“My grandfather has met nearly everyone in the world he might want to,” Jason Carter says. “Right now, he’s meeting with the president of the United States. But the person he’d say he learned the most from was Rachel Clark, an illiterate sharecropper who lived on his family’s farm.
“He didn’t pity her,” Carter says. “He saw her power. My grandfather believes in the power of a single human and a small community. Protect people’s freedoms, he says, and they can do great things. It all comes back to an enormous respect for human beings.”
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Amazing that he is still alive after being diagnosed with skin cancer a few years ago! He has done a lot of good after leaving the presidency, also in Guyana!