"Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About"

[applegrove]

Six Things Nelson Mandela Believed That Most People Won’t Talk About

By Aviva Shen and Judd Legum at Think Progress

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37042.htm

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6. Mandela was a die-hard supporter of labor unions. Mandela visited the Detroit auto workers union when touring the U.S., immediately claiming kinship with them. “Sisters and brothers, friends and comrades, the man who is speaking is not a stranger here,” he said. “The man who is speaking is a member of the UAW. I am your flesh and blood.”



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The GOP hatred of unions has mastered half the country.

[PM Martin]

1. Fox "News" Channel isn't going to talk about this,

Or Ronald Reagan's support of the illegitimate Apartheid regime.

[applegrove]

2. Okay. Will change my op. I skimmed over that introductory part.

[NYC_SKP]

3. "As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over."

Directly from the ThinkProgress article:

In the desire to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s life — an iconic figure who triumphed over South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime — it’s tempting to homogenize his views into something everyone can support. This is not, however, an accurate representation of the man.

Mandela was a political activist and agitator. He did not shy away from controversy and he did not seek — or obtain — universal approval. Before and after his release from prison, he embraced an unabashedly progressive and provocative platform. As one commentator put it shortly after the announcement of the freedom fighter’s death, “Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to sandblast him, to take away his Malcolm X. You will try to hide his anger from view.”

As the world remembers Mandela, here are some of the things he believed that many will gloss over.

http://thinkprogress.org/home/2013/12/06/3030781/nelson-mandela-believed-people-wont-talk/

TPTB don't want to bring up these things:

1. Mandela blasted the Iraq War and American imperialism.
2. Mandela called freedom from poverty a “fundamental human right.”
3. Mandela criticized the “War on Terror” and the labeling of individuals as terrorists without due process.
4. Mandela called out racism in America.
5. Mandela embraced some of America’s biggest political enemies.
6. Mandela was a die-hard supporter of labor unions.

This doesn't surprise me at all.

[applegrove]

4. Yeah I skimmed the article. My bad.

[NoOneMan]

5. Gotta wonder if the US would have drone striked him if they could back then

A marxist member of a terrorist group was a threat enough to the CIA to have him thrown in prison. Gotta wonder how many Mandelas we drone strike today

[applegrove]

6. Since communism fell, I think there is less messing with democracy on the whole. The West

wants newer countries to be as vested into trade as much as possible. Which stops wars with neighbours, etc. And seems to have brought Iran to the table. That being said, I'm not for unregulated capitalism. But I don't like war either.

[BlueStreak]

8. Knock them off before they become that well known

[BlueStreak]

7. The MSM coverage of Mandela's passing was horrible

It was nonstop for several days, but absolutely superficial. It was as if they all just kept reading the same Wikipedia paragraph over and over and over.

[Cha]

9. The US media is so Shallow! The best coverage for Madiba's

passing has been online at..

Madiba….. A Life That Will Never Be Forgotten

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/07/madiba-a-life-that-will-never-be-forgotten/

mandela-a-global-salute

http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/07/mandela-a-global-salute/

[Wilms]

10. ^

[kelliekat44]

11. I have always found it mind-boggling that Reagan would support unions in Poland and then

work to squash them here in the US and support squashing workers' (miners') rights in S. Africa.

[BlueStreak]

12. Nothing hard to understand about that. The common factor

is that Reagan thought unions were bad for totalitarian governments. He was in favor of totalitarian governments here and in South Africa. But he didn't like the government in Poland because his backers couldn't make any money off that.