Pele was of the world.
The outpouring of love that has occurred in the last few hours is the kind of thing that I have always wished for my country and for the world.
Underpinning that wish has always been - not a belief, but a CERTAINTY, bolstered by an ethereal feeling of personal rightness, that America for starters, and the world soon after, will find its place in the universe when we all agree in our hearts to live and love as one.
We will fight and disagree - we won't stop being humans - but the disagreements and fights will always be based on the mutually agreed to fact that we are one, not black, white, yellow, red, brown or mixed.
Because we are mixed.
Either currently or imminently.
And we all are and will be the better for that.
The outpouring of love that has occurred in the last few hours is the kind of thing that I have always wished for my country and for the world.
If Tom Brady had died the BBC would have said in closing "oh by the way".
Tonight, the BBC NewsHour was the Pele NewHour.
He was Brazilian, not British.
Pele was of the world.
And the world is vastly better for that fact.
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