…such a great man, a world leader, etc. Don’t forget to explain to the kiddies why he was imprisoned for 27 years. Tell the children he was in jail and why. They are entitled to the whole story aren’t they?

And blacken the good name of Mandela, Harb? Heaven forbid! Yer liable to get yerself blacklisted on here just fer bringing up the dark side of that story and what landed him in the klink fer all those years.

Yes, by all means include why Mandella was imprisoned. Just don’t forget to explain what pushed him to those extremes. Could any of us stand by idle while our friends & companions are killed & tortured in front of us for simply having a different skin colour?

“In its recent report, South Africa: State of Fear, Amnesty International described the role of government security forces in a spiral of torture and political killings during the two years since the release of Nelson Mandela and the lifting of the 30-year ban on the African National Congress (ANC). Previous reports issued in the 1970s and 1980s had drawn attention to the widespread human rights violations which occurred in South Africa during those decades – the extrajudicial executions of protesting students in Soweto and elsewhere; thousands of arbitrary detentions of anti-apartheid activists, including prisoners of conscience; systematic torture and ill-treatment of political detainees, in well over 70 cases resulting in death; hundreds of executions of political and other prisoners; and other grave violations of fundamental human rights.” ~ £SOUTH AFRICA @Torture, ill-treatment and executions in African National Congress camps.

Most of the world views Nelson Mandela as a defender of human rights, against a minority white government engage in widespread, killing and torture of it’s citizens.

Israel in this day and age (with the support of our Prime Minister) treats Palestinian children far worse then South Africa ever treated black children.

In Israel Palestinian children as young as ten years old can be accused (guilty with no due process) of throwing rocks and rounded up in the middle of the night torn from their beds with their parents at gun point by paramilitary types (for maximum fear), taken to secret locations where they are tortured for days and weeks on end until they are tricked into signing a confession that is written in Hebrew and are told its a release form. The damaged goods are then returned often years later to their parents with a life time of hate pent up in them to continue the cycle of violence.

At least in the South African form of apartheid the children had a semblance of due process, as did Mandela.

Australia recently finished a UN report on the plight of Palestinian children in Israel that is a real eye opener. The kind of stuff one would expect to hear about in 19th century colonial Africa and not a 21st century advanced country.

Wonder if the legacy of black history includes what’s gone on in Rhodesia since it became Zimbabwe?

If it makes ya uncomfortable, just dismiss it from yer mind. Works fer most people.

Might as well. Barbarism 1, Civilization 0. Now the final score’s been posted, the game’s over there.