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Related: About this forumAl Sharpton Slaps Meet The Press Revisionists about Nelson Mandela. We chose The Wrong Side
Today on Meet The Press great tributes were given to Nelson Mandela. However, there was an attempt to give the implication that America as whole was supportive of this man.
Al Sharpton silenced the Meet The Press round table for a few seconds as he placed into context Americas role South Africas liberation. America was not a supporter of Nelson Mandela. Many are attempting to rewrite history. Al Sharpton ensured that all around that table people got the truth. He ensured that of those listening were well aware that Conservative stalwarts like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher did not embrace freedom. They uttered the words but it was just for a select few.
Full post and video
http://egbertowillies.com/2013/12/08/al-sharpton-mandela-meet-the-press/
JimboBillyBubbaBob
(1,389 posts)Big Al, metaphorically speaking, speaks the plain truth here. I remember well the use of ANC and communist in most reporting during the 1980s. It simply doesn't matter now, Mandela changed the world.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)santamargarita
(3,170 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)they were sceered of commies. It was a blatant show of racism and nothing more.
valerief
(53,235 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I watch Reverend Al nearly every evening.
cer7711
(502 posts)Last edited Sun Dec 8, 2013, 07:01 PM - Edit history (1)
. . . and corrective truth-telling there. Right on, Al!
Some other notable moments down the collective memory hole: Dr. King's marching in solidarity with striking sanitation workers shortly before he was killed; Muhammad Ali's pointed observation that "no Viet Cong ever called me nigger"; H. Rap Brown's uncomfortable and oh-so awkwaaaaard assertion that "violence is as American as apple pie."
Yeah. Just sayin'.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Al Sharpton for setting their weasely asses straight.
thank you, egberto.
progressoid
(49,999 posts)proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)NAOMI KLEIN: South African Democracy Born in Economic Chains
JOHN PILGER: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa
I wonder what Sharpton's views are.