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Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

reviewed by Loerke

Loerke
01/24/2009

Nelson Mandela (South Africa) 5

What's with all the haters here? Is RIA the last refuge for Afrikaners and other people nostalgic for apartheid? Then again, maybe it's just ignorance; more than one person refers to Africa as a "county." Anyway, the only real objection to Mandela I see being made is that he is anti-American. Considering that the CIA had some role in his prison term of nearly 30 years, and that Dick Cheney voted to keep him there, do you think that there are maybe some reasons for him to be suspicious of the United States?

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Victor83 commented 314 days ago.
How about the fact that he was a terrorist and a communist sympathizer? How about the fact that he turned a first world country into a third world shithole? Yeah...recognizing those truths makes one a "hater". Come on Loerke.

Loerke commented 313 days ago.
Yeah, a first world country ... in which the majority of the people (the native people) had no access to that life. Mandela changed that!

Victor83 commented 313 days ago.
Back in 1988 I attended a business meeting. The featured speaker there was a black man from South Africa. He owned his own distributorship and was very well off. He said that while not everything in his country was the way he would have it, it was nothing like the media was portraying it. He went on to say that, under Botha, things were far better for blacks in South Africa than they had been for blacks in the USA. I took the man at his word. I still do.

Loerke commented 313 days ago.
Anyone who waxes nostalgic for the era of apartheid, or denounces those who helped to end it, must be delusional.

CanadaSucks commented 290 days ago.
wah are u hatin' Loerke? Do u wont duh terrurists to win?
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