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#26 The Real Darth Bob

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 10:41 PM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 28 2005, 09:30 PM, said:

I have no idea who this Mandela fellow is. Something tells me I should.

How could you not? He's only the first Black President of South Africa and was one of the major figures in the fight against Apartheid.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 10:49 PM

I didn't care about politics at all until this year. And I've never heard of him.

*shrugs*

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 10:55 PM

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He's only the first Black President of South Africa and was one of the major figures in the fight against Apartheid.

A few of the the many reasons that Nelson Mandela kicks ginormous amounts of arse.

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 11:14 PM

The Real Darth Bob, on Mar 28 2005, 08:41 PM, said:

How could you not? He's only the first Black President of South Africa and was one of the major figures in the fight against Apartheid.

Where's South Africa?

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#30 moonunit4eva

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 11:22 PM

Somewhere probably..

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Posted 28 March 2005 - 11:46 PM

I can't see it!

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 01:00 AM

moonunit4eva, on Mar 29 2005, 03:49 AM, said:

I didn't care about politics at all until this year. And I've never heard of him.

*shrugs*

Nelson Mandela is a figure of such international standing that I find it incredible that you haven't heard of him. And, unlike many figures of global notice, he's earned every bit of acclaim he receives. In fact, I would go so far as to say that he is responsible for preventing the collapse of South-African apartheid into a Zimbabwe-like state.

Go read up on him. Seriously, you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't know enough about this man to take inspiration from him.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 04:14 AM

I think the funniest opinion I ever heard about Mr Mandela was given to me from a taxi driver, after driving back from a night out with my boss and his girlfriend (who is from South Africa). And we got talking about stuff, the driver was from Jamaica, where my boss and GF had just been on holiday. And we were talking about his home, and my boss's GF's home, and got onto the subject of Mr Mandela, to which the Taxi driver's comment was :

" Ahh yeah, man, Nelson Mandela, he was a prat, man!"

Apparently his wife was "alright" though.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 11:08 AM

I'd never heard of him either, but the name sounded vaguely familier.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 12:11 PM

High Five TJ! You are redeemed for calling Frank stupid.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 02:34 PM

I don't want to be redeemed for that. It's true.

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Posted 29 March 2005 - 02:46 PM

Motion seconded.

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 12:36 AM

Well you're all...stupid...

*cries*

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 01:11 AM

Nelson Mandella, hmm...I have mixed feelings about him. No doubt though he is probably the most famous contempory African leader since Answan Sadat (sp.) (I slaughtered that.

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 12:30 PM

Umm....Who?

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 12:51 PM

Anwar Sadat, you know....Egyptian president, won the Nobel Peace Prize.....I give up

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#42 moonunit4eva

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 01:03 PM

No...actually...

Get on AIM Wzrds, we need to chat.

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 01:07 PM

Dunn dunn dahh....

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 05:58 PM

Swithich, on Apr 2 2005, 01:11 AM, said:

Nelson Mandella, hmm...I have mixed feelings about him. No doubt though he is probably the most famous contempory African leader since Answan Sadat (sp.) (I slaughtered that.

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Mixed feeling about Mendela? Pray tell.

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Posted 02 April 2005 - 11:41 PM

Well, as with all revolutionary leaders, there zeal sometimes approaches a reverse of what they fight. Eventhough I salute him for his turning the tide of apartheid (ironically started by Cecil Rhodes whom we are studying in school) I feel that occationally he goes over the line. Sometimes his feelings border on hate for "white" people and countries with "white" leadership. Not that I blame him for his views, especially after all that time in prison, but I think that his views, in excess, are perhaps dangerous. We also see now (it was on the news the other night) that there are different black factions fighting in South Africa. There is actually social supression of less inclined blacks by more powerful blacks. So although I think he helped South Africa take a major step towards a truly free liberated state, I think there is still much to do there. Including a nationalization of their people.

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Posted 03 April 2005 - 01:53 AM

Swithich, on Apr 2 2005, 11:41 PM, said:

I have never heard him say any sort of hate or border line hate speak against whites. Although if he was commenting about how Africa's troubles are largely ignored because of race, I believe he is in many ways correct.

Although I will give you that no one is perfect as even Gandhi during WWII, said somethings that were very, very anti-Semitic