NELSON MANDELA-DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING./

[harry brown]

NELSON MANDELA  HAD  A  LOT  IN  COMMON  WITH  DR.  MARTIN LUTHER  KING...BOTH  HAD  TO   LEAD  THE   FIGHT AGAINST  GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED  RACISM//IN  AMERICA  LIKE  SOUTH  AFRICA,   RACE  SEGREGATION   AND    AGAINST    INTERRACIAL  MARRIAGES..HEARD  ON  THE  NEWS    THE  HIGH  UP   IN  AMEICA SUPPORTED   APARTHEID   IN SOUTH- AFRICA, THE HIGH  UP  IN   THIS   COUNTRY  SUPPORTED   SOUTH   AFRICA EUROPEANS  SEEING NELSON  MANDELA  AS  A   TERRORIST//AMAZING   NELSON  MANDELA  WAS   NOT  KILLED    WHILE  IN PRISON//AMAZING  DR.   MARTIN  LUTHER   KING  WAS  NOT  KILLED  WHILE  IN  JAIL, OR    WAS  NOT  LOCKED  UP  A  LONG TIME  LIKE   NELSON  MANDELA  WAS..//THE  DIFFERENCE  DR.  MARTIN LUTHER   KING AND   BLACK   PEOPLE    ,SEEN  AS  NOT  HUMAN     ,AND  THE  SEGREGATION   AND   VILE  TREATMENT  SUPPORTED   BY    A   WHITE   CHRIST  AND  GOD.....  WHITE  POLITICIANS,   POLICE,WHITE,CHURCH  PEOPLE  ARE  GOD FEARING  CHRISTIANS...AFRICAN  EUROPEANS   SAW   AFRICANS   HAS  UN CIVILIZED   AND   NOT  HUMAN....AFTER COMING  OUT  OF  PRISON   NELSON MANDELA  WAS  FORGIVING, I  DONT   THINK  I  COULD  HAVE  BEEN  FORGIVING....HE  WAS  ONE   OF  THE  GREATS   ALONG  WITH  DR. MARTIN  LUTHER  KING.I  WILL  ADD    HARRIET  TUBMAN,   LEADING    SLAVES  WITH IN  THE, UNDERGROUND  RAILROAD.////

[Cynique]

As is to be expected,  when death claims an iconic figure, included among the eulogizers are a few who criticize.  Nelson's ex-wife, Winnie, agrees that while Nelson Mandela was a great and courageous man, he was too preoccupied with the concilliation and compromise that reinforced white control and neutralized black demands. She says that in spite of all the adulation over Mandela, under his leadership little has changed in South Africa when it comes to reducing poverty and increasing opportunities among its black masses.

 

In response to those in this country who compare Obama to Mandela, Obama's critics say concilliation is the main thing that he and Mandela had in common because Obama's obsession with being president of all the people has led him to ignoring his own people whose glaring needs remain unfulfilled. 

 

Although he never ascended to Mandela's position of authority, pundits give significant credit to Martin Luther King's adopting Gandhi's non-violent agitating for true change. Whereas, the terrorist tactics that landed Mandela in jail culminated with him opting for concilliation instead of reform once he became president after his release.   

 

Elsewhere, using the social media as a platform, a few have expressed relief that Mandela's demise has provided a respite from the orgy of grief inspired by the death of Paul Walker, an undistinguished cast member of "The Fast and Furious" movies. 

 

And so it goes...

[Troy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0JAKEDDTvU

 

Winnie Mandela bannished & banned to Brandfort.  Interviewed by SA documentary filmmaker Kevin Harris for his 1983 documentary: "No Middle Road To Freedom".