Posted on 12/05/2013 2:11:15 PM PST by Red Badger
Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.
"He is now resting. He is now at peace," Zuma said. "Our nation has lost its greatest son. Our people have lost a father."
"What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human," the president said in his late-night address. "We saw in him what we seek in ourselves."
Mandela will have a state funeral. Zuma ordered all flags in the nation to be flown at half-staff from Friday through that funeral.
Mandela, a former president, battled health issues in recent months, including a recurring lung infection that led to numerous hospitalizations.
With advancing age and bouts of illness, Mandela retreated to a quiet life at his boyhood home in the nation's Eastern Cape Province, where he said he was most at peace.
Despite rare public appearances, he held a special place in the consciousness of the nation and the world.
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Seems no one has the guts to speak the truth...and don't kid yourself that skin color isn't the major factor in the cowardice.
Yeah, lots of folks who signed up this year have “mixed views” on Mandela.
Pathetic. And, he shouldn’t even have this *power* vested, period.
I’ve learned to ignore most recent sign-ups...
You know, it’s kind of nervy for me to make that post, since I’ve only been here for two years. But I think looking askance at even newer signups is part of becoming a Freeper, LOL.
You’re an exception...but whenever I get a whiff of RINO, moderate, or troll; it’s a recent aign-up.
Great things?
Oh yes, he could have bombed more churches and train stations and malls. There were so many more innocent men, women, and children to kill.
Very true.
And thank you.
...recent SIGN-up...learn to spell, boy.
You’re quite welcome. :-)
“’American’ and ‘Democrat’ have become mutually exclusive terms, buddy.”
Sadly true. :(
Even Mike Lee, Ted Cruz and Rush are praising Mandela
Yeah the rich elites who live in gated communities (or out of the country in Hollywood like Charlize) worship him like other White liberals. I bet the women who have to worry about being gang raped and given HIV while walking home from work feel a little differently. As to people who have lost family to ANC terrorist acts.
We live in a world where a Black guy who stands up to White racists is an automatic A #1 hero and cause celbre among guilty white liberals, even if he’s a damn terrorist.
As for “democrat” and “American” not going together, they’ve been pond scum on the national level since way before Kennedy. Sad? It’s sad that anyone votes for them.
What? Uhg. This is sickening.
They Should Embalm, cremate and bury at sea. Take no chances.
The whitewash begins of a dead Marxist who left South Africa a far worse place than he found it.
The ANC of his came to power and has basically destroyed the formerly free and prosperous and pro-West S.Africa and turned it into a dismal, terror-filled, oppressive Zimbabwee gonnabe.
Substituting comparably mild white racism for magnitudes greater black racism and oppression and violence against whites (and any blacks who don’t like the tyranny of the ANC communists).
yes i only remember him as being liberal....Liberal Christianity isn’t something I take seriously, so I challenge “liberal Christianity”
I challenge anybody that says they are Christian if they support a woman’s right to choose, or even homosexuality in any way shape or form
These same people almost always say stuff like....Jesus would never have said he was the only way
Anybody in my mind that votes for the removal of Gods word from classroom/public square, for abortion and homosexual marriage etc, could not possibly have the Spirit of Christ within them
I just don’t buy it and I don’t believe it`s judging to question as I do
Does Drudge take weekends off? Change the HEADLINE!
“Yeah the rich elites who live in gated communities (or out of the country in Hollywood like Charlize) worship him like other White liberals.”
B I N G O ! ! !
Hey Charlize, put down the botox and butts and invite “them” to live on your estates. Yeah, I thought not. Another hypocritical douche.
“As for “democrat” and “American” not going together, they’ve been pond scum on the national level since way before Kennedy. Sad? It’s sad that anyone votes for them.”
I still get a little smirk when I think of Truman dropping the bombs on Japan (yesterday was December 7). Yes, he was only doing his job, I understand. But it’s still nice.
Ohh... look at the pretty picture of Nelson!!!
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2013/12/another-mandela-piece.html
Or is that Morgan Freeman!?!?!?
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