Posted on 12/06/2013 7:46:38 AM PST by Mozilla
Yeah. All but a few are remembering a terrorist commie as a “hero.”
Sort of a black Yassir Arafat.
His wife had multiple people executed with blazing car-tires hung around their necks.
Remember it is the victors who write history.
They called it “necklacing”
The left wants us to worship the icons they worship and hate the figures they hate. They will accept nothing less.
You mean erase the history and clean it up to suit themselves. That is what is called white washing the truth.
What is interesting is that the white Europeans were the very first people to settle the are known as South Africa. Blacks only arrived after the boers had established a society.
You can tell by how they ignored Margaret Thatcher’s death but are all over Nelson Mandela’s passing. Some outlets did do a few reports on Thatcher but didn’t make it a main story. Thing was Obama was fing around with Syria which also was timed to throw her off the front page.
Then the Brits came and forever destroyed it.
I beg to differ (with the headline).
Big Media and Big Government fawn over him BECAUSE he was a stalinist terrorist.
The only coverage they gave of Thatcher’s death consisted of showing the scumbags who were celebrating her death.
For all I know Mandela matured into a decent statesman (or maybe not), but I refuse to kneel before another of the left's gods.
He now sits on the right hand of Saint Trayvon.
Nelson Mandela did a GOOD thing, doncha know. He ended Apartheid in South Africa.
So he was used by the Communists, aren’t they the champions of “equality” everywhere? Not only was he used by the Communists, he embraced the concept of “one man, one vote”, but also added “one way, one time” to that litany. And THAT is entirely compatible with Communist doctrine.
Agreed, apartheid was a Bad Thing, and should have been ended. But the struggle was a tribal war, the various Native African tribes arrayed against the White Tribes (Afrikaans and English), which jointly held ruling power. The Native African tribes were also at war BETWEEN each other, and the force of arms maintained by the White Tribes was to try to hold these warring factions from endless raids upon each other. So for this reason, much like the reasoning that put Native Americans on reservations, the various Native Tribes were herded into “lands” with defined boundaries, in an attempt to limit the violence. This arrangement did nothing to reduce the existing mutual suspicions and hostilities, but some order was restored to the remainder of that tormented land.
At least, until world opinion was sufficiently shifted, through embargos and economic sanctions, and the Afrikaans and the English (actually two separate White tribes) were forced to share power with the various Native African tribes.
The history of the South Africa republic is much more complex than many people realize. Once part of the British Commonwealth, there was considerable immigration from India and other parts of the former Commonwealth.
And that’s a good comparison between his path before he went to jail, and his path when he got out.
Why would anyone expect South Africa to turn out any differently than Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)?
He was the leader of the ANC terrorist wing and personally signed off on many atrocities.
George & Martha Washington they were not
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