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PeonForHer -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 3:21:17 AM)
The black majority was kept in abject poverty for many years and treated like rats forced to fight over crumbs. It's not really a surprise if some learned lessons that they can't easily unlearn, is it?

tweakabelle -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 4:20:20 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer The black majority was kept in abject poverty for many years and treated like rats forced to fight over crumbs. It's not really a surprise if some learned lessons that they can't easily unlearn, is it? Oh no! Peon that's not how it should work according to elements on the Right. Here's the deal: According to the Right, you give them nominal equality under the law, and in return, they forget everything that has happened, every injustice, every exclusion, every outrage, every indignity. They will forgive those who oppressed them everything and then we can all live happily ever after. They will forgive all the murders, lynchings rapes imprisonments, tortures, kidnappings etc just as they will forgive and forget that the Right will have opposed their emancipation every inch of the way. The slate is magically wiped clean. And of course no one has to surrender a cents worth of the gains accrued under the old system of privilege. There's absolutely no need for any social programs or legislation to remedy the lingering effects of previous injustices - we are all going to be treated strictly on our merits from now on. Any problems or difficulties will be their fault of course, because basically they are ungrateful and lazy and want everything on a platter. [/sarcasm] Apparently this is all going to happen on its own, magically you might say, or so these recently converted non-racist elements on the Right would have it.

Marc2b -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 6:26:58 AM)
Nelson Mandela was a radical. Anyone able to truly forgive their oppressors and seek genuine peace and reconciliation is acting very much against the norm of the human race (vindictive little snots that we usually are) and therefore is a radical. We need more radicals like him. May whatever god there may be grant him peace. But oh, I forgot, he wasn't perfect. He actually said a few nasty things about whites once or twice. That cancels out all the good he did. I hope he burns in Hell. (Although I shouldn't have to point it out, history has demonstrated to me that I must . . . yes folks, that second paragraph is sarcasm.)

Lucylastic -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 7:53:50 AM)
One republicans comments "Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," But you're right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." way to minimize and over exaggerate all in one paragraph. Bless his heart As For Mandela, RIP Sir

Yachtie -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 8:01:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tweakabelle According to the Right, you give them nominal equality under the law, and in return, they forget everything that has happened, every injustice, every exclusion, every outrage, every indignity. And of course no one has to surrender a cents worth of the gains accrued under the old system of privilege. There's absolutely no need for any social programs or legislation to remedy the lingering effects of previous injustices Ah, yes. What they need is the goodness and caring of the Left. [8\|]

EdBowie -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 10:24:08 AM)
There is a big difference between the society experiencing a backlash against the oppressors after they lost their stranglehold on the population, and your claim that Nelson Mandela personally subjugated the white people because he held the racist attitude that they were inherently inferior. So, while we are waiting for you to back up your actual claim as made above, (or for that matter, waiting for you to come back to the Guam thread and explain your absolutist claims there), here's a more local perspective on race in SA today.[;)] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCL9tcxBOMs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jefJyZNtWhY And in greater detail, the power shift... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFj0HdW2iDs&list=RDbCL9tcxBOMs quote: ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr quote: ORIGINAL: deathtothepixies quote: ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr Like most racists that make their bones in politics, he talked a good fight until he got his moment in the sun. Then, he proved that "equality" meant "subjugation" to him. In a way, it makes me glad that one of my personal heroes, MLK Jr., never got the chance to fall from grace. I hope Nelson gets the afterlife rewards he deserves. Wow. A quote form Nelson Mandela, No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite you seem to have done a lot of learning but not had much teaching The logic in that quote is faulty. If one can learn to hate but must be taught to love, logic dictates that hate comes more naturally. Furthermore, I reject that and your pathetically veiled attempt at calling me hateful. You don't have the first clue about me or how I live so try selling that shit to someone who owns a farm. I call a spade a spade. I call out white racists, also. Mandela was a *black* supremist. While that fits in in the Pablum-puking world, that turd won't flush in my bowl. Look at what South Africa transformed into under his leadership (and try to look through a non-jaundiced eye). It went from Apartheid to "screw whitey like he's screwed us for years". That's not "balancing the scales"; that's starting a pendulum to motion. (and now, you're blocked, again)

cloudboy -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 12:12:10 PM)
"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." Nelson Mandela -------- The question most often asked about Mr. Mandela was how, after whites had systematically humiliated his people, tortured and murdered many of his friends, and cast him into prison for 27 years, he could be so evidently free of spite. The government he formed when he finally won the chance was an improbable fusion of races and beliefs, including many of his former oppressors. When he became president, he invited one of his white wardens to the inauguration. Mr. Mandela overcame a personal mistrust bordering on loathing to share both power and a Nobel Peace Prize with the white president who preceded him, F. W. de Klerk. And as president, from 1994 to 1999, he devoted much energy to moderating the bitterness of his black electorate and to reassuring whites with fears of vengeance. The explanation for his absence of rancor, at least in part, is that Mr. Mandela was that rarity among revolutionaries and moral dissidents: a capable statesman, comfortable with compromise and impatient with the doctrinaire. When the question was put to Mr. Mandela in an interview for this obituary in 2007 — after such barbarous torment, how do you keep hatred in check? — his answer was almost dismissive: Hating clouds the mind. It gets in the way of strategy. Leaders cannot afford to hate.

PeonForHer -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 12:38:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: cloudboy "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." Nelson Mandela Heh. That's better than 'biting your nose off to spite your face'.

PeonForHer -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 12:54:35 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Yachtie Ah, yes. What they need is the goodness and caring of the Left. [8\|] I don't think it's about that, Yachtie, whether we're talking of the Left or of the Right. It's about what we could reasonably expect a viciously subjugated people to be like, once freed. Likewise the politicians who lead them. A weak, evil man in Mandela's position could, post-revolution, have used the whites as scapegoats for every social ill that cropped up (and there would have been, and was in SA, lots of them). Mugabe did this; Mandela didn't. South Africa could look horrifically worse today had lesser men than Mandela been at the forefront. God knows we have plenty of examples in history of the hideous bloodbaths that have followed revolutions. To be honest, I was amazed as year after year went by after 1994 without any stories of mass atrocities hitting the headlines. I kept waiting for it to happen - but it never did happen.

cloudboy -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 1:41:26 PM)
Think of the bloodshed during: (1) The US Civil War (2) After the Russian Revolution (3) After the Maoist Revolution (4) After Hitler (full of spite and resentment) came to power in Germany (5) The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia Regarding your foe as an enemy is a dangerous practice for all involved.

joether -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 1:57:32 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic One republicans comments "Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," But you're right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." way to minimize and over exaggerate all in one paragraph. Bless his heart As For Mandela, RIP Sir Let me guess....Rush Limbaugh? Sounds like something that 'waste of humanity' would spew forth on the airwaves....

thishereboi -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 2:13:04 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: joether quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic One republicans comments "Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," But you're right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." way to minimize and over exaggerate all in one paragraph. Bless his heart As For Mandela, RIP Sir Let me guess....Rush Limbaugh? Sounds like something that 'waste of humanity' would spew forth on the airwaves.... Wrong, if it had been rush he would have been given his own thread. But it really doesn't matter who said it, after all according to some of the folks on here they all speak for each other and think alike.

PeonForHer -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 2:16:13 PM)
May I say, THB, I do admire the way you defend right-wingers, despite being a left-winger yourself?

thishereboi -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 2:20:50 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer May I say, THB, I do admire the way you defend right-wingers, despite being a left-winger yourself? I wasn't trying to defend the asshat, sorry it appeared that way. I guess I should reread a few times before hitting ok.

popeye1250 -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 3:05:51 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: joether quote: ORIGINAL: popeye1250 This could be a description of Mexico too. This is one thing that really disturbs me about my govt., when they get involved with third world countries. I don't want to "help" those countries, I don't want to be "friends" with countries like that and, I don't want my govt. doing so either. As for Mandela,...who cares about him unless you're a S. African or a self-loathing white diletante from Cambridge, Mass or Bezerkley, Calif? The kind who were wearing those flat topped "Castro hats" in 1959-60. They "celebrate" the bad guy but they sure wouldn't want to sit down and drink with them and maybe the next day, go out and help the bad guy decapitate a few of the resistance.Whoa! They're Leftist but they're not THAT fuckin' Leftist! And of course they are in favor of handing over U.S. Taxpayer Dollars to rat-bag countries like that because they're,..."poor." Wisdom is just not one of your strong suits, is it? Nor reason, knowledge, compassion, patience, courage, or humility. Joether, I express my opinion which must obviously differ from your's and you insult me instead of addess my point(s) Not the first time.

mnottertail -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 3:13:13 PM)
Fuck addressing your stupid rants. You got no points. Nelson Mandela went to prison for encouraging a strike and leaving the country. You belly up to the trough and eat dead dog with both hands as a front line nobody in all that foreign policy you spent your years shirking your job. Im looking at the fuckin criminals here.

joether -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 3:21:33 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: thishereboi quote: ORIGINAL: joether quote: ORIGINAL: Lucylastic One republicans comments "Nelson Mandela stood up against a great injustice and was willing to pay a huge price for that. That's the reason he's mourned today, because of that struggle that he performed," But you're right, I mean, what he was advocating for was not necessarily the right answer, but he was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and controlling people's lives, and Obamacare is front and center in that." way to minimize and over exaggerate all in one paragraph. Bless his heart As For Mandela, RIP Sir Let me guess....Rush Limbaugh? Sounds like something that 'waste of humanity' would spew forth on the airwaves.... Wrong, if it had been rush he would have been given his own thread. But it really doesn't matter who said it, after all according to some of the folks on here they all speak for each other and think alike. Seems my initial answer was partially correct. Wrong man but same 'asshole ideology' from the conservative philosophy. Yes none other than Rick Santorum!

popeye1250 -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 3:36:28 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: mnottertail Fuck addressing your stupid rants. You got no points. Nelson Mandela went to prison for encouraging a strike and leaving the country. You belly up to the trough and eat dead dog with both hands as a front line nobody in all that foreign policy you spent your years shirking your job. Im looking at the fuckin criminals here. "Stupid rants?" O-kaaay

LookieNoNookie -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 4:14:21 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: deathtothepixies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520 A great man. He died. Learn from it. That's it.

deathtothepixies -> RE: Nelson Mandela dies (12/6/2013 4:24:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LookieNoNookie quote: ORIGINAL: deathtothepixies http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25249520 A great man. He died. Learn from it. That's it. His life. Learn from it. That is it.

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