I think FR needs a moratorium on Mandela threads.
He’s dead.
THE END
Well Lincoln did burn the South(including Atlanta) for daring to secede so they are similar in that : genocide.
here it says there is a stage 6 genocide in South Africa, mandela’s enduring legacy.
http://www.realnews24.com/genocide-watch-upgrades-south-africa-stage-6-preparation/
that is a genocide of whites in South Africa by a black government.
In South Africa many white women getting raped and tortured to death proof:
https://www.google.com/search?q=south+africa+rape+of+white+women&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=8XCjUq08x9qRB6j1gOgP&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=849&bih=465
Genocide Watch has been particularly concerned for over ten years at the hate crimes perpetrated against Boer farmers and other whites – bodies of murder victims dissembled and disfigured, old women raped in front of their husbands, and other strong evidence of racially targeted crimes. However, Genocide Watch had no evidence that the South African government was encouraging these crimes or that they were organised by an organised hate group.
Now Genocide Watch states that they have evidence of organised incitement to violence against white people.
Lincoln and mandela faced nothing that was the same.
Lincoln was not a communist.
Mandela was a avid Communist with ties to violent thugs starting with his wife.
He might have ended apartheid, but in the wake he opened up a brand new wave of racial violence that’s brought South Africa to be known as one of the most dangerous places on Earth (for whites and blacks).
Differences:
Lincoln only freed southern blacks. He couldn’t care less for Northern slaves - they were owned by his friends.
Similarities:
Smug self-congratulating “I am not racist” white people use their legacies indiscriminately while continuing to distance themselves from blacks. For communists, the enemy isn’t racism, but freedom.
I never realized Lincoln had spent years in prison. That always gets left out of his biographies.
I nominate this for the Dumbest Mandela-Related Thread Of The Week award.
Lincoln did not want war. Mandela was a communist terrorist.
I don’t recall Old Abe necklacing people as Mandela’s family did. Specifically his wife. I don’t recall the pubbies cutting of the noses of people who voted for their opposition as the ANC did. No I don’t think there is anything to discuss and no similarities whatsoever. Simply wishful, romantic nonsense.
Mandela was a terrorist Lincoln was not.
Let's discuss it then.
Blacks in South Africa under Apartheid were not slaves. They could not be sold down the river never to see their families again. Their children belonged to them, not to some 'master.' They could work for wages wherever they could be hired. They were free to move about the country or even to leave the country if they chose. They could own property and that property was respected. They were allowed to learn to read and write.
Mandela v Lincoln? Wrong analogy.
Apartheid treated blacks in South Africa very similar to how blacks in the most of the Southern US were treated for 100 years after the Civil War. They were not allowed to participate in the political process. They were denied equal rights in a number of spheres such as housing, employment and educational opportunities. They were denied equal protection under the law. But they were not chattel slaves.
Mandela v M.L. King? I can see their struggles as similar but what Mandela fought against was nothing like the institution of slavery that Lincoln opposed and apparently you would have supported.