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Posted on 12/06/2013 8:34:40 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
WASHINGTON–D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray compared the District of Columbia’s lack of autonomy and voting rights to the struggles Nelson Mandela endured, explaining Friday that residents connect so much with the South African leader because “we have not achieved full equality in this city.”
“When we can’t have the authority to be able to spend our own money, and all our local laws need to go to the national legislative body in order to be approved, when we experience taxation without representation every day, when we don’t have a voting member of the national legislative body, I think the people can relate first hand to Nelson Mandela, the leadership he provided and the experience in South Africa because there are so many similarities to the experiences right here in this that we continue to endure,” Gray said at a press conference at the South African Embassy.
Gray noted that people all over the country feel a deep connection with Mandela, despite most never laying their eyes on him in person, because “in this country we went through our own form of apartheid, the segregation, the racial segregation that we experienced in this nation that we endured.”
Gray, who announced this week he will seek another term, called Mandela “absolutely an inspiration” to him and said Mandela’s death “is truly a profound loss for our city and for the world.” ....
Gray added that he will launch a new effort in the Washington, D.C., public schools to include more education around the “life and work of Nelson Mandela and the parallels to our own life here in this country and in this city and how we can use his principals and the way he lived his life to continue to work on the injustices that we have in this city.”
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Drama queens have been touting Manela for attention all across the nation for 24 hours now. How much more of this crap o we have to listen to? We know the real agenda here is to promote Communism....
Everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. I guess the death of this despicable communist serves a purpose for some.
Planes are boarding right now.
I compare my lack of a new iPad to struggles of Nelson Mandela.
lol....this is beyond silly.
Does the media really think Americans are that interested in Mandella and his legacy?
Move, dumbass.
Since when does the media care what the public is interested in ? They’re the ones that decide what the public MUST be interested in: Fluff and false idols.
Also maybe you should concentrate on reading, writing and arithmetic and worry about teaching Mandela crap later on.
He’s right that our African-American urban enclaves resemble South African slums.
Why? Obama’s Kenyan half-brother knows why.
They care about their ratings....this is overkill coverage.
Does everybody have a Nelson Mandela struggle comparison? Sheesh!
Hasn’t the idiot-mayor gray been indicted yet? He us yet another in a long line of corruptocratic fools who have been mayor of WDC. These LIBs/DIMs are insufferable for the spew they put forth.
Ever notice how the words “struggle and struggles” mostly appears in Marxist (union and communist etc..) writings or news reports supporting such trash?
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