Damn, it will be a sad day for African people world wide when Mr. Mandela passes. The man is an icon.
what a great Man. Though, as an oyibo, i can have no claim to him but i'm so proud of Mr. Mandela. <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/MFW7845XO3g?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Home in Africa, my mother died in an ambulance stuck in traffic who's oxygen tanks were non-functional...hits a nerve. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has always stood out for me as the best of all of us. Mr. Mandela and Desmond Tutu are giants to me (but then again, so is Colonel Ojukwu).
Wasn't he a terrorist when he was a young man? Isn't that why he went to prison in the first place? He was awesome late in life - for sure...but can't recall what he was in prison for all those years. DD
Yes, it's complicated...but, as an American, how could one not respect this man. BTW, my American passport is one of my most prized possessions.
LOL yeah - a terrorist. Go ahead and google "apartheid." "Awesome later in life." LMAO. You are either trolling or profoundly stupid.
Too busy developing Guitar Hero to know current events??!?!? Come on, man. Look that iSht up. Can't offend that man like that.
There were actual bombings where the victims were civilians including children. Even in more recent times he sympathised with Mugabe. There is that radical streak in him that gets a free pass because of who he is as a cultural icon. Would it be offensive to say this Nobel Peace Prize winner had a terrorist past too? It is what it is.
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He was a revolutionary, and in the early days of his revolutions he utilized his position to hold his revolution in a sometimes violent way. There are most likely 100s of innocents that have died as a result of his leading the MK. He accomplished a lot of good in his life, some of it overshadowing some of the bad he did. Very few men are saints and Mandela should not be treated as such. He was a person that led great change, mostly for the better in his life, however, and should get the proper respect due. Many people are probably not even aware of his somewhat violent roots in his early days of dabbling with Communism and change.
I was going to say this thread should be locked since Mandela has now actually died but wanted to respond to this post. Mandela certainly advocated violence and the ANC did use terror as a weapon so yes technically he was a terrorist but you have to consider what he was fighting against. A racist system that denied basic liberties to people because of their skin color and used the military to enforce it. Mandela was a terrorist in the same way that John Brown was a terrorist. Also to the British most of the American Revolutionaries were terrorists too.
