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Originally Posted by Istlota
What should matter to you is_why_ Mandela spent a third of his life in prison. It was not for being a Uncle Tom. It is sad, and another indication of how badly black America has lost its way, that so many of us now think of Nelson Mandela as a bad person.
We have become quite efficient of late at bad-mouthing the accomplishments of some of our greatest leaders --- Mandela, King, and Gandhi. If they didn't or don't talk about white people as being some kind of devils or lower forms of life, we now think they are Uncle Toms.
If Nelson Mandela was the man that you prefer to think of him as, he could easily have trashed Winnie in his autobiography. Yet, there is not one word in it that is anything other than complimentary of his ex-wife.
Anyone who wants to know who the real Nelson Mandela was and is should go to their local library and check out a copy of "Long Walk To Freedom".
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Take your OWN advice brother .....Winnie is Black too. It was YOU that seem to have attempted to discredit her. The same rules you want to apply to those don't agree with you .....apply them to yourself as well.
There isn't a single BLACK entity located somewhere in Mississippi that pumps out the same thoughts and ideas simultaneously to EVERY single black person in the world. So WE haven't become anything. WE are all individuals with our own independant thought. Black folks have the right to analyze, CRITIQUE, and come up with their OWN individual conclusions just like every other group does.