Share Nelson Mandela was a Communist supporter, a terrorist, and a statesman. He was no Martin Luther King, that is for sure. No doubt the Left will paint any less-than-positive articles about Mandela as the product of racism though it is about ideology, not race. Mandela accomplished much in his life… both good and bad. We shall leave it to history to be the ultimate judge however we note his support for Communist dictators as a stain on his legacy. From Newsmax: Gizzi: Once Frightening, He Became Father to Nation When the world mourns Nelson Mandela at one of the most-attended state funerals in modern history, few will recall a time when the father of the modern South African nation — its first post-apartheid president, a Nobel laureate, and apostle of reconciliation — was a frightening figure. “In 1989, I thought that if Mandela came to power, he would rule like the Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran and turn South Africa into a gulag,” said Bruce Herschensohn, senior fellow at the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy. “But he certainly proved me wrong and many others wrong. In many ways, he surprised his critics pleasantly, much like Sadat in Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan, when he developed from a young man who sought permission of other Arab leaders but went on to become a mature leader who did what he felt was right,” Herschensohn said. Morris Amitay, former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and political officer at the U.S.
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