Is this True?: Reagan and Mandela

[ClosedCaption]

ok but what does that have to do with are they better off now?

I think that's a silly question for anyone who values freedom.

The answer to the question, "Were Blacks Better Off Under Apartheid?", is emphatically, no! Blacks were not better off under apartheid. Why? Because for whatever mistakes and errors Blacks are making today, especially in the area of public policy, they in sum are better off for having the right and ability to ascend to a measure of self-rule - a necessary step for any person or community seeking to reach self-sufficiency, and the fullest measure of self respect and self-love.

:: BlackElectorate.com ::

Without economic stability what good is freedom?

oh god, now Freedom isnt good unless something else...Just with this case. Usually Freedom would be good enough for Big Red now....Just for South Africa tho. Every where else Freedom is good

 

[bigrebnc1775]

I think that's a silly question for anyone who values freedom.

The answer to the question, "Were Blacks Better Off Under Apartheid?", is emphatically, no! Blacks were not better off under apartheid. Why? Because for whatever mistakes and errors Blacks are making today, especially in the area of public policy, they in sum are better off for having the right and ability to ascend to a measure of self-rule - a necessary step for any person or community seeking to reach self-sufficiency, and the fullest measure of self respect and self-love.

:: BlackElectorate.com ::

Without economic stability what good is freedom?

oh god, now Freedom isnt good unless something else...Just with this case. Usually Freedom would be good enough for Big Red now....Just for South Africa tho. Every where else Freedom is good

OK you have freedom, how do you provide for your self if you don't have the economic stability to maintain that freedom? seek help from the government?
Well that isn't freedom

 

[Political Junky]

Reagan never really supported Mandela. He vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. His position was clear. He believed the Anti-Apartheid movement would lead to civil strife and he supported the status quo in South Africa. However, this should not be surprising. He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His bogus tales of food stamps chiselers and welfare queens tended to employ racial imagery and often outright racist references to blacks.

Yes, Reagan and Thatcher opposed ending apartheid. They called Mandela a terrorist.

 

[rdean]

Too young to remember. So go ahead.

Is this true?

Worse, the CIA found Mandela for the South African government to arrest.

 

[rdean]

Reagan never really supported Mandela. He vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. His position was clear. He believed the Anti-Apartheid movement would lead to civil strife and he supported the status quo in South Africa. However, this should not be surprising. He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His bogus tales of food stamps chiselers and welfare queens tended to employ racial imagery and often outright racist references to blacks.

Yes, Reagan and Thatcher opposed ending apartheid. They called Mandela a terrorist.

It's always the oppressed that are the "terrorists". If they win, they are called "heroes".

 

[rdean]

(yawn) The Obamanuts must be feeling a little defensive these days...

How so?

 

[Political Junky]

Reagan never really supported Mandela. He vetoed the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act. His position was clear. He believed the Anti-Apartheid movement would lead to civil strife and he supported the status quo in South Africa. However, this should not be surprising. He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. His bogus tales of food stamps chiselers and welfare queens tended to employ racial imagery and often outright racist references to blacks.

Yes, Reagan and Thatcher opposed ending apartheid. They called Mandela a terrorist.

It's always the oppressed that are the "terrorists". If they win, they are called "heroes".

Yes, our Founding Fathers risked being hanged for overthrowing an oppressive government.

 

[rdean]

Too young to remember. So go ahead.

Is this true?

Worse, the CIA found Mandela for the South African government to arrest.

Seeing the Republican support for "apartheid" kinda blows holes in those USMB right winger's theory insisting Republicans are the party of Lincoln and equality and anti slavery.