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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
I haven't been paying much attention to Nelson Mandella's death, but are people declaring him a republican yet?
I've always said he was a commie and always will say he was a commie.Yet you have to go to a liberal website to see the obvious stated:
In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan placed Mandela’s African National Congress on America’s official list of “terrorist” groups. In 1985, then-Congressman Dick Cheney voted against a resolution urging that he be released from jail. In 2004, after Mandela criticized the Iraq War, an article in National Review said his “vicious anti-Americanism and support for Saddam Hussein should come as no surprise, given his longstanding dedication to communism and praise for terrorists.” As late as 2008, the ANC remained on America’s terrorism watch list, thus requiring the 89-year-old Mandela to receive a special waiver from the secretary of State to visit the U.S. |
People often just look at Mandela's call to take up arms against the racial minority that's ruling the country as representative of his complete political views. While to most regular Americans that his call might seem a sensible thing to do, they don't realize that when Mandela said it, it was in an effort to create ethnic strife against white people!