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In case the multiculturalists here have forgotten...
And what's the context of the song?
There's a WHITE GUY there singing the song.
Songs would have been passed down orally through the generations. Mandela's tribe would have fought the whites who came into their country and some of the songs would have been passed down in that form.
The US has Columbus Day. Columbus the guy who went to the Americas and started a process that killed most of the Native peoples over a period of three hundred years.
The US has a capital called Washington, and a state too, a guy who went around killing the Natives, ethnically cleansing them.
Notes towards a Native American history of George Washington
"George Washington....had become famous as an Indian killer during the French and Indian War. He had risen quickly through the militia ranks by butchering Indian communities and burning their homes."
"After the rebellion Washington became president and waged war on Indians in the land now called Ohio. After a disastrous loss of an army under General St Clair in 1791, Washington sent a new army in 1794 under “Mad Anthony” Wayne. Wayne won the war at the Battle of Fallen Timbers."