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Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
1. I remember those son's of bitches and hating them for watching what was happening to
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 12:21 AM
Jan 2012

people in South Africa AND knowing that me, A BLACK WOMAN could not go to South Africa and be treated decently. I was in university at the time.

Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,494 posts)
4. I still had cable around the time Helms finally croaked . I remember watching
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 12:46 AM
Jan 2012

a Faux "News" panel explaining to the rest of us why Helms wasn't a bigoted sack of shit. Human sharpei Brit Hume should be ashamed of himself. That is if he's capable of self evaluation.

 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
5. Isn't it just GREAT that Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro have outlived both of those scum!!
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 01:26 AM
Jan 2012

Great to see that these two comrades in the fight against imperialism have outlived so many of their adversaries.







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RainDog

(28,784 posts)
7. Dick Cheney also sided with apartheid
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 02:04 AM
Jan 2012
Cheney bristled in response to questions about his voting record, revealing a mindset that never understood what was at stake in South Africa -- or perhaps understood all too well. Challenged last Sunday to defend his 1985 vote against a House resolution urging the release of Nelson Mandela from 23 years of imprisonment, he first denounced such inquiries as "trivia." Does he really think that the oppression inflicted on millions of black citizens during more than five decades was a trivial matter?

He quickly tried to correct that gaffe, praising Mandela as "a great man." (He also remarked, with baffling condescension, that the African leader has "mellowed," whatever that means.) He had opposed the resolution to free Mandela, according to Cheney, because it was attached to recognition of the African National Congress. "The ANC was then viewed as a terrorist organization," he said. "Nobody was for keeping Nelson Mandela in prison. Nobody was for supporting apartheid."


I guess Cheney would've supported torturing Mandela and others fighting for their civil rights in South Africa since he considered them "terrorists." Good thing we didn't have the laws then that we have now.

http://www.salon.com/2000/08/01/south_africa_3/

sarcasmo

(23,968 posts)
11. Ronnie Raygun, destoryer of the ATC, the trucking industry and
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 11:42 AM
Jan 2012

the defender of the south African apartheid regime.

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
12. Jesse was MISTER "IOKIYAR":
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 11:46 AM
Jan 2012

1994: "If President Clinton ever visited North Carolina, he'd better bring a bodyguard."

"Aw shucks, that's jest Jesseh bein' Jesseh. Pay thet no mahnd."



FRY IN THE DEPTHS, PIGSHIT!!!

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