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Prediction: in 10 years, we will be reading op-eds on how Mandela was "actually" a conservative (Original Post) Recursion Dec 2013 OP
I'll one up you JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #1
Damn. I wish I could disagree with you Recursion Dec 2013 #2
In fifteen years Fox News and the Moonie Times will claim Mandela and Reagan were best buds jmowreader Dec 2013 #3
Ahhh JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #4
Oh I have no doubt gollygee Dec 2013 #5
He's being smeared as a race traitor/sellout in the Good Reads forum, so ya possibly nt geek tragedy Dec 2013 #6
Off to find that one JustAnotherGen Dec 2013 #8
10 years? I give it until next week. Javaman Dec 2013 #7

JustAnotherGen

(31,917 posts)
1. I'll one up you
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 06:50 AM
Dec 2013

Having watched the white washing of America's Civil Rights pioneers - in 15 years it will be that Mandela was "actually working on behalf of white males" in order to make him palatable to the spoiled brats in this world.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
2. Damn. I wish I could disagree with you
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 06:58 AM
Dec 2013

I really, really wish I could...

Everybody loves the "non-violent". And they completely ignore the "direct action", which tends to be much more effective than bombs in the long run...

jmowreader

(50,566 posts)
3. In fifteen years Fox News and the Moonie Times will claim Mandela and Reagan were best buds
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 07:17 AM
Dec 2013

And in twenty years they'll try to sell him as a caucasian...he Had to have a drop of Caucasian blood in him, right?

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
5. Oh I have no doubt
Tue Dec 10, 2013, 10:34 AM
Dec 2013

That's been done to MLK, right? We'll hear about how Mandela would have been a Republican if in the US, and how Reagan was his biggest supporter. I bet you're right.

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