I think there is a very different perspective (namely one that spans the entirety of Mandela's adult life) from which one can look at this. Yes, under a violen

I think there is a very different perspective (namely one that spans the entirety of Mandela's adult life) from which one can look at this. Yes, under a violent and oppressive racist regime which virtually anyone in the technologically-literate world would condemn, Mandela founded the MK and rebelled violently. He was imprisoned for a long time, released, and became the figurehead for positive, reconciliatory, peaceful change in a tumultuous part of the world. It's important to not deify the man, but it can come across as pedantic to bring to light the long-ago wrongs of someone who did, and stood for, an awful lot of right.