So much untold history being whitewashed yet again.
http://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/the-military-defeat-of-the-south-africans-in-angola
http://monthlyreview.org/2013/04/01/the-military-defeat-of-the-south-africans-in-angola
Nelson Mandela
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
"You will make out that apartheid was just some sort of evil mystical space disease that suddenly fell from the heavens and settled on all of us, had us all, black or white, in its thrall"
This is contender for the quote of the year imo.
viktorvaughn
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silly reactions on facebook
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padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
pretty much
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
sanding away the difficult edges of a complicated human life into secular sainthood is a real disservice to the man, his struggles and legacy, but it was inevitable. Cornel West calls it Santa Clausification, as he does for MLK, and he is right. and it will only get worse. it is their fate to have their worst opponents sing, safely after the fact, their praises. it is the fate of dangerous men to be defanged into bland signifiers. and it's all bitter ashes in the mouth, but what can you do?
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
People being dismissive of Mandela is, if not 'understandable' let alone remotely OK, then at least tiresomely predictable given the concentration of dickheads in the world and the tendency of the internet/social media to bring out the more dickheaded sides of people.
But what I can't process is the people who don't know who he was. Surely there's a good case to be made for his being one of a handful of the most important and influential people of the last hundred years?
