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Soetoro shares convicted terrorist Mandela quote after deadly white supremacist rally
2017-08-13
[The Hill] Former President Obama tweeted a Nelson Mandela quote condemning racism just hours after a white supremacist rally in Virginia turned deadly.

"No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..." Obama tweeted, featuring a photo of him talking to small children of different ethnicities through a window.

The quote comes from Mandela's 1994 inaugural address, when he became the first black president of South Africa.

Obama’s message was in response to a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. A car plowed into a crowd of anti-fascism protestors, killing one person and leaving more than a dozen others injured.

Two Virginia State police officers were also killed when their helicopter crashed, which authorities linked to the rally.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Well Mandela was a socialist so he didn't understand economics and he was free about the time the Soviet money taps stopped flowing plus he had a wife who was a brutal murderer so how much progress could seriously be expected.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2017-08-13 17:42  

#7   Mandela tried to protect all Africans whether white or black or white after being elected president.

And he did a marvelous job?
Posted by: Pappy   2017-08-13 16:53  

#6  Try reading "The Fate of Africa; The history of the Continent Since Independence" Meridith, Martin. Mandela tried to protect all Africans whether white or black or white after being elected president. Obumble on the other hand....
Posted by: Grusolet Thise9450   2017-08-13 15:02  

#5  Meaning BLM & Co had to be taught paid to hate whites?
Posted by: Knuckles Oppressor of the Faith8929   2017-08-13 13:30  

#4  "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."

Meaning BLM & Co had to be taught to hate whites?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-08-13 12:39  

#3  "No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin or his background or his religion..."

In accordance with research of evolutionary survival traits across species, that is exactly incorrect. Only after 'the different thing' is proven to be nonthreatening does curiosity kick in, for some.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-08-13 12:37  

#2  Obama has challeled Mandela for years. This is a photo of him standing in Mandela's cell, looking out into the courtyard. I visited it many years ago. Former convicts provided tours, their description of events on Robben Island were only slight prejudiced. One indoctrination visit was enough for me. Obama made at least two trips. One solo, and one with Mooch, free-rent grannie and the kiddies.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-08-13 11:09  

#1  Obama channeled Mandela rather than MLK? He must be ignoring such practices prevalent during that time such as "Mandela Necklacing." Perhaps, that is a practice that Obama embraces. An article which was published at the time of Mandela's death talks about the atrocities of South Africa during Mandela's reign. Don't mourn for Mandela. He was not Martin Luther King Jr. He was not Mahatma Gandhi. And he was certainly not George Washington, as Barack Obama claimed. The practice of "Necklacing". Mandela must have evoked that warm feeling in Obama that Chris Matthews spoke about when he heard Obama speak: "I Felt This Thrill Going Up My Leg.”
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-13 08:49  

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