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Mandela did something that few others in his circumstances would have done.
When given the opportunity he forgave his enemies.
As president Mandela had the power to extract reparations for what was done to himself and millions of others by the Apartheid regime.
But instead he forgave them and offered the hand of friendship and peace.
That is what Jesus would have done.
And that is why Mandela will always be remembered as a great man. He arose above and beyond the hatred. He reached out to his oppressors and embraced them. He treated them with respect as human beings.
Above all Mandela has shown us a way to overcome our own petty differences. We too can put the past aside and move forward together in friendship and peace.
What are you smoking dude?Communist or not seems irrelevant. In fact, so is the fact that he is dead, and receives any recognition for anything. He was imprisoned as the leader of a armed insurrection against the government of South Africa. So have many Islamist Extremist been imprisoned for arming themselves in opposition to governments, including the USA.
The difference is that Mandela was a US Media Darling, and still is. Many advertisements were sold in papers and in TV telling, retelling, and retelling again Mandela's story, and with each public appearance, the media value grew. Presidents and celebrities wanted their pictures taken with Mandela.
I'm certain he was a nice fellow, but the Hyperventillating Media is sickening in their obvious desire to manufacture celebrity, and to capitalize on it.
Truer words haven't been posted.Were I to judge whites by the same criteria they judge blacks....
Every "Founding Father" of America could be considered a piece of shit that deserved to be hanged.
Alas, I'm not blinded by racist hatred, and understand that slavery could not be abolished overnight. Thomas Jefferson, who not only owned slaves and was in love with a slave, TRIED to persuade many of the evils of slavery, and did in fact his part to end it.
So did many whites who were called ABOLITIONISTS.
So did many Civil War soldiers give their lives in what ended up helping to end slavery.
But I don't go around saying Jefferson was a piece of shit that should've been hanged because he owned slaves.
ALTHOUGH I VERY EASILY COULD.
But look at how you talk about Mandela, and Dr. King. Who were the ones being oppressed.
DIG IT!
KING!
Saint Barack? I don't think Obama will get a sainthood for making peace with the Taliban. The US president is currently on the road to eternal damnation.As a candidate for Sainthood, Mandela might be the only man who could beat out Obama or Martin Luther King in a head to head vote.
Ok, I just deleted almost 100 posts from this thread.
I'm done asking nicely.
To be perfectly clear:
If you make a post about another poster, and not about Nelson Mandela, in this thread - you will be banned for at least a week.
Communist or not seems irrelevant. In fact, so is the fact that he is dead, and receives any recognition for anything. He was imprisoned as the leader of a armed insurrection against the government of South Africa. So have many Islamist Extremist been imprisoned for arming themselves in opposition to governments, including the USA.
The difference is that Mandela was a US Media Darling, and still is. Many advertisements were sold in papers and in TV telling, retelling, and retelling again Mandela's story, and with each public appearance, the media value grew. Presidents and celebrities wanted their pictures taken with Mandela.
I'm certain he was a nice fellow, but the Hyperventillating Media is sickening in their obvious desire to manufacture celebrity, and to capitalize on it.
1%.
He's really going to skew the theory that the older you die the less traffic you get at your funeral...
There was a double rainbow in the sky ? yesterday.
I wish South Africa well. It sounds like much more needs to be done.
