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Goodbye to a hero in forgiveness who demonstrated truly magnificent character during the post-apartheid transition in South Africa. More world leaders should s
by ASpring 13y ago
Goodbye to a hero in forgiveness who demonstrated truly magnificent character during the post-apartheid transition in South Africa.
More world leaders should strive to follow in his footsteps.
- cma 13y agoWe only took him off the terrorist list, nearly a sort of minor apartheid of its own, a few years ago.
- JackFr 13y agoNotwithstanding the glib idiocy of maintaining an equivalence between a list of terrorist organizations and apartheid, I have to admit I was shocked by the fact that leaders of the ANC, esp. including Mandela, could not get a visa to the US until 2008, and that it took an Act of Congress. I would have assumed that it would have been an administrative decision of the State Department.
- cma 13y agoDepending on your age you may or may not be shocked to find out that women couldn't serve on juries until the 1970s.
- justincormack 13y agoThats not a reasonable summary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_v._Louisiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_v._Louisiana eg see http://www.mass.gov/courts/sjc/jury-system-e.html http://www.mass.gov/courts/sjc/jury-system-e.html
- JackFr 13y agoI'm only made to feel better by knowledge that the last Swiss canton held out on women's suffrage until 1990.
- TwoNineFive 13y agoCorrect. I came here to remind people that as recently as FIVE years ago he was considered a terrorist in the United States of America. http://blogs.dailynews.com/friendlyfire/2013/06/30/americas-shameful-treatment-mandela-lingers/ http://blogs.dailynews.com/friendlyfire/2013/06/30/americas-... http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchlist_N.htm http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-04-30-watchli...
- celticninja 13y agoyeah but the US thinks almost anyone with dark skin or a different political opinion to them is a terrorist.
- JackFr 13y agoNot completely fair. Sinn Fein members are typically denied visas, and they're as pale as they come.
- richardjordan 13y agobecause typically they were coming here to raise money spent on placing bombs in parades of WWII veterans and in hospitals
- celticninja 13y agosinn fein members possibly were at some point denied visas, but right now it is a legitimate political party and in the past it must not have been enforced because the bars of boston were their prime source of funding.