“George Washington would have hanged for his acts of sedition and terror; he led a bloody revolution against a sovereign government, that of Great Britain.”
The Washington - Mandela comparison is offensive.
George Washington fought a war against an oppressive government.
Mandela committed terrorist acts against an elected government.
You mean a government elected by whites? Sorry, but if you are disenfranchised and have no democratic outlet, violence is understandable, and probably the only effective chance of gaining that freedom. As for his gaining support from the ussr and other dictatorship, let’s remember that the American revolutionaries were cultivating the support of France and Spain, absolute monarchies of many orders of magnitude worse than Britain, and Churchill cultivated Stalin during wwii out of practical necessity, Mandela was by no means perfect, and whilst the fawning of lefties who consider him to be nothing less than black Jesus are idiots, simply dismissing him as a commie terrorist is also grossly wrong.