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To: cyborg
He was tossed in the klink in 1963 (I think) after being caught with a truck full of explosives. Way back when, he was a bomb thrower for the ANC. He became, due to his prison stay, the symbol of racial oppression in SA until his release.
30 posted on 01/31/2003 10:44:41 PM PST by txradioguy (HOOAH! Not just a word, A way of life!)
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To: txradioguy
Even so, whatever credibility he had with anyone conservative is shot to heck. It is sad. I remember this whole South Africa mess watching it on TV. Mandela was the man of the hour when he was let out of prison. Worse yet when he visited New York City and started that whole african-american thing going with the dashiki and kufi hat,etc.

I think now people are going to forget about how people were treated under apartheid, and focus on Mandela's stupid statements and also his horrible ex-wife. No one can deny that it was bad under apartheid though, and I'm not going to say in lieu of Mandela apartheid should return. However, this is what happens when people RUSH to judgement, revenge, bitterness,etc. When people don't reason something out and get ignorant about something, present day SA is what happens. However, I do not live in South Africa so I can't say what it's like. I met a man from SA, parents were Dutch, and absolutely not the stereotypical white South African racist.

Mandela should have kept his mouth shut. Actually when South Africa saw Bill Clinton coming, they should have closed the airport. The man (BC) is the angel of death.. death to people's political careers and whole countries too.
40 posted on 01/31/2003 11:05:27 PM PST by cyborg
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