An interesting coincidence about the time schedule slippage: not only did the event start an hour late, but that happens to be exactly how late President Selfie was in getting to said event.
Other FAILs of note: the phony sign-language interpreter, who wasn’t vetted by anyone, yet was able to be present on-stage with many world leaders, and the apparent tidbit that the first 10% of the crowd let into the stadium was never security-screened.
What did they expect?
Because Africa.
I guess some of the people who were scheduled to attend had somehow been tortured to death by Mandela Necklace. Others needed to burglareiz Desmond Tutu’s house.
1 South Africa post civilization.
2 What more can one expect at a leftist, statist, Communist funeral in a sports stadium.
3 Then there is president selfie.
4 You couldn’t pay me enough to be there in reverence to what.
You mean the white western liberal lawyer colonization of Africa through Mandela is not popular in Africa? Just like Gandi is hated in India for ushering Pakistan?
My, those ungrateful uncle toms...
So it could be that the antics of President Selfie were perfectly in tune with the seriousness of the occasion.
made the event “almost like being in a Roman amphitheatre” and “frankly distasteful,”
“distasteful” Well, jug ears and moochie was there after all.
shambolic
soon to be added to the OED...
I found it interesting that I saw not one white face in the seats. Not one.
“The Heart of Darkness” wins. Again
This just further reinforces my opinion that many leaders adored by leftists as icons of history actually get far more adulation if they’re assassinated in their primes than they get if they wither away and die a natural death. As time goes on, the full impact of their accomplishments (or lack thereof) becomes more clear, and even in a modern, pagan culture there’s something rather odd about having two “widows” sitting up there at a memorial service.
Sooo.. A whole buncha communist leaders get together to celebrate a communist’s death and turn the service into a catcall for people they socially dislike turn it into a party atmosphere for themselves give lip service to diversity (sign interpreter) and leave the peasants outside.
And people are surprised how?
The British Trotskyites are upset that the Stalinist Africans acted like communists. Next time, pass out icepicks.
Mandela doesn’t deserve kind words, he deserves the farce that this memorial service became.
except a bunch of people should have been necklaced to make it more of an honor to him.
Were they blowing their Vuvuzelas the whole time?
I suspect there were very few whites in the stadium.
Africa wins again...
There were comments that Mandela’s funeral would be comparable to that of Winston Churchill. Obviously there was no comparison as Churchill was honored with pomp and dignity while Mandela’s funeral appeared to have been choreographed by the Marx Brothers.
Turned out to be nothing more than a pop culture, UN, foreign dignitary circle jerk.