re: #30 Amory Blaine

A very conservative friend mine just posted something similar on FB, saying that the people paying tribute to Mandela didn’t know their history:

Was just seeing a lot of (granted, this sort of thing is pre-packaged) tributes to Nelson Mandela on my TL today. I ain’t sayin’ he’s the devil - he *did* help accomplish some great things - but an honest look at his legacy reveals it’s… mixed. He’s credited with helping to end some really awful policies in South Africa, but was not the non-violent idol the ignorami claim he was. He didn’t get sent to prison for protesting - he got sent there for leading a terrorist organization funded and controlled by the USSR that was in the middle of a campaign of bombings. They tortured and murdered *thousands* of people. One of their preferred methods involved putting a tire around their necks, dousing them with gasoline, and setting them on fire. They called it ‘necklacing’. His image has been whitewashed. Granted, he was a much softer man when he emerged from prison, but even after his incarceration, he had his moments. As recently as last year, he advocated the massacre of any/all descendants of the white Boer settlers. Not a saint.