Nelson Mandela Dies

[Gameface]

I know he's no Paul Walker but it's still pretty big news.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/05/world/africa/nelson-mandela/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

(CNN) -- Nelson Mandela, the revered statesman who emerged from prison after 27 years to lead South Africa out of decades of apartheid, has died, South African President Jacob Zuma announced late Thursday.
Mandela was 95.

 

[bordelais7]

How could you possibly be in a position to categorize this as "big news"? Aren't you white? Leave the commentary to the experts.

 

[MVP]

95 years. Nice long life.

 

[Gameface]

95 years. Nice long life.

Yeah, I'm sure that 27 years in prison was pretty sweet.

 

[♪alt13]

Yeah, I'm sure that 27 years in prison was pretty sweet.

Especially in one of those swanky South African prisons.

 

[b_line]

wait, I thought he was narrating movies the whole time he was in prison?

 

[MVP]

Yeah, I'm sure that 27 years in prison was pretty sweet.

It could be that prison diet resulted in such a longevity.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Mandela is tricky because a lot of his real history has been whitewashed. He was no Ghandi or MLK Jr, but I do like the redemption angle.

 

[8]

Mandela is tricky because a lot of his real history has been whitewashed. He was no Ghandi or MLK Jr.

Yep, pretty accurate on that

 

[♪alt13]

Has anybody seen this yet?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmm-aazQQKA

 

[Zulu]

Mandela is tricky because a lot of his real history has been whitewashed. He was no Ghandi or MLK Jr, but I do like the redemption angle.

I'm would easily put Mandela in the same level of respect and history changing figure as Martin Luther King Jr and Ghandi....

Remember Ghandi also was a protestor in South Africa!!!

Mandela was a great man... He also had the great opportunity to see the change he fought for and was a prisoner for for 27 years!!!

RIP Mandela!!!

 

[Beantown]

RIP

 

[addictionary]

RIP

Hahhha

OK, as heartless as it is, I still giggled.

 

[b_line]

wait, I thought he was narrating movies the whole time he was in prison?

RIP

This is what I was getting at earlier...

Anyway, Mandela was awesome. And RIP.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

I'm would easily put Mandela in the same level of respect and history changing figure as Martin Luther King Jr and Ghandi....

Remember Ghandi also was a protestor in South Africa!!!

Mandela was a great man... He also had the great opportunity to see the change he fought for and was a prisoner for for 27 years!!!

RIP Mandela!!!

Was he or was he not the shot caller behind Umkhonto we Sizwe? They weren't just opposing the government for Anti-Apartheid reasons. They bombed shopping malls/cinemas and other civilian targets, killing scores of blacks and whites. How is that different than Boko Haram or the like? Again, I like the redemption angle, but the guy was not imprisoned just because he was anti-apartheid.

 

[One Brow]

How could you possibly be in a position to categorize this as "big news"? Aren't you white? Leave the commentary to the experts.

I'm looking forward to certain posters lecturing South Africans on who Mandela was and what he thought.

 

[Zulu]

Was he or was he not the shot caller behind Umkhonto we Sizwe? They weren't just opposing the government. They bombed shopping malls/ciemas and other regular civilian targets. How is that different than Boko Haram or the like? Again, I like the redemption angle, but the guy was not imprisoned just because he was anti-apartheid.

I agree, but if he doesn't get arrested and sit in Jail 27 years where he is able to totally transform and craft a strategy to bring enemies together, there would have been a bloody civil war in the mid 90's that would've been the worst in that century.

 

[Harambe]

I'm looking forward to certain posters lecturing South Africans on who Mandela was and what he thought.

I always love hearing what dead people thought from the mouths of politicians.

 

[Zulu]

Also Duck....

MLK jr and Ghandi weren't with out their blemishes, but it is how they transcended their faults and brought to pass a much greater good!!!!

Mandela's triumphs out way his sins!!!!!

 

[♪alt13]

I think that if you're going to compare MLK to Mandela you should start by comparing the history of the USA to South Africa. I don't know a lot about the history but what little I do know makes me believe that the South African History of Apartheid was worse.