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[R.I.P.] RIP Nelson Mandela [W:39:56:99]

Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Edit: Watching now.

Edit 2: What does this have to do with Mandela or his legacy?

You had to watch it to know what it was about?
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Rest in peace, sir.
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Thank God for your post Perotista, especially compared to the one that came after it..
It only took seven posts and I can't go further so as to stay out of trouble .
He was an Icon of the ages. RIP, he will be long remembered as one of the worlds greatest leaders and strivers for justice. Him and Gandhi.
 
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Moderator's Warning:
Threads merged. Going forward I remind all posters to take note of the RIP tag and to remember the forum rules that apply relating to it.
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Moderator's Warning:
Threads merged. Going forward I remind all posters to take note of the RIP tag and to remember the forum rules that apply relating to it.

Will allow a Mandela thread where you DON'T mandate the RIP rule ?
 
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RIP. One of the greatest freedom fighters, politicians, civil rights leader, social activist, and revolutionary. RIP Nelson Mandela.

You were looking at Reagan with contempt a few days ago for not taking AIDS seriously and today you praise a man who completely ignored HIV/AIDS when 10% of his population had the infection? Where was his greatness again?
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Please excuse the ignorance, but I couldn't find the RIP tag in the rules..Please help..
Moderator's Warning:
Threads merged. Going forward I remind all posters to take note of the RIP tag and to remember the forum rules that apply relating to it.
 
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Please excuse the ignorance, but I couldn't find the RIP tage in the rules..Please help..

It means the RIP thread was merged with the one we were in so we can't say anything negative about the man now.
 
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I'm just gonna c/p my FB status on the man:

Nelson Mandela was a freedom fighter, not just for black South Africans, but for South Africa as a whole. He and the countless others who worked with him helped to save the soul of a nation and replace with equality where there once had been discrimination, helped to replace with love where there once had been hate. He is an inspiration to people not just in South Africa, but to those who fight for justice and freedom today and who will continue the fight tomorrow. While he may be gone, he still lives on in the hearts of those who wish for a peaceful and just world, where we can learn to live together, even with our differences, but still respect and understand one another.

Rest In Peace Mandela, you have earned it.

What a beautiful eulogy! :thumbs:

Greetings, Mr. Invisible :2wave:
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

Will allow a Mandela thread where you DON'T mandate the RIP rule ?

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Multiple threads of the exact same subject in the same forum will be merged into the earliest started thread. This is nothing new.
 
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Been to his old prison cell and got very emotional when I saw how small it was, you could stretch out both your arms and touch the walls.
Amazing that he came out and forgave the way he did.




Some people have bigger hearts than others.




"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
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Why would you want to??
He just died..
I remember when Kennedy, Jobs, and Breitbart died when I was on Politico..
It hurt to see what people said, especially at Breitbart's family, about a year ago..
We are better than this..
It seems to have taken 50 years for noone to speak poorly of JFK, all leans .
It means the RIP thread was merged with the one we were in so we can't say anything negative about the man now.
 
Re: RIP Nelson Mandela [W:28, W:56]

The Nazis got the trains running on time too...

The trains in Germany always ran on time even before the Nazis.

I think you have Mussolini confused with the Nazi's. Come to think of it, Mussolini used to be a communist.

But I digress.

Rest in peace Comrade Mandela. The endgame being that you won in South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) but lost the bigger war, the Cold War.
With the end of the Cold War, Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

It's a shame that South Africa isn't living in peace today.
 
Re: Nelson Mandela Dead: Icon of Anti-Apartheid Movement Dies at 95

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

Rest in peace and Well done Mandela, you have left the world a better place. Immortality is in our deeds and beliefs, and you sir have become immortal.
 
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The trains in Germany always ran on time even before the Nazis.

I think you have Mussolini confused with the Nazi's. Come to think of it, Mussolini used to be a communist.

But I digress.

Rest in peace Comrade Mandela. The endgame being that you won in South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) but lost the bigger war, the Cold War.
With the end of the Cold War, Mandela was released from prison in 1990.

It's a shame that South Africa isn't living in peace today.




I don't believe that any lack of peace in South Africa can be blamed on Nelson Mandela.
 
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Rip Mandela and I just don't think it is a big deal at all that your branch of the ANC known as the MK, carried out numerous bombing which killed and maimed hundreds of people. You Gandhi and MLK are were just soooo much alike. RIP brave comrade.
 
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Rest in peace, Nelson Mandela.
 
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I don't believe that any lack of peace in South Africa can be blamed on Nelson Mandela.

Hey Shrub :2wave:

You may remember a few years ago on the Politico we had thread about Mandela and if you remember I have a chip on my shoulder on what happened in Africa with all of the Soviet Unions proxy wars that were taking place under the disguise of freedom fighters. My fiance was raped and murder along with her entire family in Rhodesia in 1978 by communist terrorist. And that's what they were called, communist and terrorist.

So it's personal with me.
 
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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

It was Mandela and apartheid that first ignited the flames of protest against injustice in my soul during college in the early 80's. The world lost an incredible human being today.
 
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Strange thread.
 
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Regardless of one's opinion's of the man, would we all not be better humans to at least let his body cool before dragging it through the mud?

Rest in peace. Prayers of relief and solace to his loved ones. :peace
 
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