Nelson Mandela dead at 95

[Blarg]

Fair and balanced.

[Lhalo]

There's actually some truth to that.

[sneaky_flute]

His military faction killed people years after their inception while he was incarcerated. He supported attacks against the corrupt government's installations which I have no problem with. 

[RallyMo]

There's actually some truth to that.

Yes, but there's actually some context to that truth which doesn't quite mesh with how he's trying to frame it.

[Glen]

RIP Nelson

 

 

[Glen]

Guy killed lots of people but he was a great guy? 

 

 

In a world filled with color, you're living in monochrome.

[Spirit]

 

Supreme Terrorist turned awesome guy....

 

Love our media....

 

 

 

Brilliant

[TobiasFunke]

[LBHalos17]

Hah!  That's funny!

RIP Nelson.

He may have had some short-comings as a man (as we all do), but I'll take him over Ghandi any day.  He showed amazing restraint while incarcerated, and should be sainted.

[Blarg]

He showed amazing restraint while incarcerated? Just what else was there for him to do, start a cafeteria food fight?

[yk9001]

Ok, I am not trolling here.  But my Mandela info is seriously lacking.  I know NOTHING about him except that he was in a prison, apparently unjustly, for 40 years. 

 

What did he do exactly which made him a great man?  I came to this thread, and I read the same things I always hear.  Great Man.  Inspiration.

 

What specifically did he do?  Again, not trolling, just ignorant on the subject.

[arch stanton]

 

n March 1960, 69 black anti-apartheid demonstrators were killed by police at Sharpeville. The government declared a state of emergency and banned the ANC. In response, the organisation abandoned its policy of non-violence and Mandela helped establish the ANC's military wing 'Umkhonto we Sizwe' or 'The Spear of the Nation'. He was appointed its commander-in-chief and travelled abroad to receive military training and to find support for the ANC.

 

 

They hit. He hit back. Call it what you will.

[Tank]

Ok, I am not trolling here.  But my Mandela info is seriously lacking.  I know NOTHING about him except that he was in a prison, apparently unjustly, for 40 years. 

 

What did he do exactly which made him a great man?  I came to this thread, and I read the same things I always hear.  Great Man.  Inspiration.

 

What specifically did he do?  Again, not trolling, just ignorant on the subject.

 

i'm with you on this, even though i posted early on in the thread. i can't really point to anything specific at this point that he did outside of how he could have been filled with hate, but he wasn't.