The one who died is Ed Roberts, founder of the disability rights movement (photo). The other shall remain nameless.
What these two men have in common is that I knew (know) them about as well as any human because we worked together on their projects for many years and we thought (think) alike. We were (are) intellectual intimates.
The reason I bring this up is because these two extraordinary people have changed America and the world. They did it using strategy and personal behavior that is so far outside the mainstream idea of how to change the world that I encountered a problem.
Whatever I said (or say) about either of these two, is ignored. When I say it in an interview it never appears in the final video.
This means that the popular world view of how change occurs is so distorted that reality can never intrude. You can get a sense of how far reality is from the conventional world view by reading my comments about Ed Roberts. Ed never pleaded victim, he always pleaded 'give my people a chance so you'll know, that like me, you will love them'.
The same is true for my other friend...but I'm not writing about it yet.