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Title: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 05, 2013, 04:02:22 PM
 :frown:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on December 05, 2013, 04:02:54 PM
 :frown: :frown:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ben ji on December 05, 2013, 04:03:34 PM
Did we stop recruiting him or did he just de-commit?
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: 0.42 on December 05, 2013, 04:04:50 PM
Did we stop recruiting him or did he just de-commit?

goddamnit

 :lol:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: puniraptor on December 05, 2013, 04:07:55 PM
Did we stop recruiting him or did he just de-commit?

goddamnit

 :lol:

 :lol:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 05, 2013, 04:24:17 PM
Bono is going to be  :bawl:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: sunny_cat on December 05, 2013, 04:28:28 PM
Did we stop recruiting him or did he just de-commit?

goddamnit

 :lol:

 :lol:

this rough ridin' place

:lol:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: bubbles4ksu on December 05, 2013, 10:39:22 PM
http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/12/05/paul-walker-nelson-mandela-death-tribute-fans-twitter/ (http://hollywoodlife.com/2013/12/05/paul-walker-nelson-mandela-death-tribute-fans-twitter/)

Edit: holy crap i thought they were either being ironic or pointing out the stupidity of these people but they are just covering it likes it's part of a worthy story.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: bubbles4ksu on December 05, 2013, 11:17:45 PM
are there other 20th century civil rights leaders who deserve mention alongside ghandi, king, and mandela?
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 05, 2013, 11:30:09 PM
are there other 20th century civil rights leaders who deserve mention alongside ghandi, king, and mandela?
ummmm.....King?
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Tobias on December 05, 2013, 11:31:38 PM
are there other 20th century civil rights leaders who deserve mention alongside ghandi, king, and mandela?
ummmm.....King?

so is that a negative on king or what is going on here
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 05, 2013, 11:35:02 PM
are there other 20th century civil rights leaders who deserve mention alongside ghandi, king, and mandela?
ummmm.....King?

so is that a negative on king or what is going on here
no I totally screwed the pooch on that one and didn't even click when I read it.  Thus the ummm of my post, shocked he was left off.  My post: :Yuck:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 05, 2013, 11:37:24 PM
John Paul II for working to restore rights to Eastern Europe. 
Dalai Lama if you're a fan of Tibet.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: OK_Cat on December 05, 2013, 11:43:58 PM
Mother Teresa
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: hemmy on December 05, 2013, 11:46:27 PM
John Paul II for working to restore rights to Eastern Europe. 
Dalai Lama if you're a fan of Tibet.

Who isn't a fan of Tibet? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK4CD2BfA0g
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 05, 2013, 11:53:35 PM
more western: James Madison, Thomas Paine
Not sure I'd put Malcolm X in, but I know some do for American CR history.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 06, 2013, 05:03:58 PM
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/12/06/249210908/listen-two-mandela-speeches-that-made-history?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook

you can/should listen to a couple of his speeches
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: TheFormerKCCat on December 06, 2013, 05:16:30 PM
are there other 20th century civil rights leaders who deserve mention alongside ghandi, king, and mandela?
César Chávez (there's a moving coming out soon!  :excited: ), Harvey Milk, Crazy Horse (and many other tribal heroes), pretty sure there are a BUNCH of folks that will emerge from all of this Arab Spring democratization.

 :bawl: on Mandela, for sure.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: star seed 7 on December 06, 2013, 05:44:00 PM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Cire on December 06, 2013, 05:53:04 PM
where do people stand with arafat?
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: HerrSonntag on December 06, 2013, 05:59:30 PM
Mother Teresa

Mother Theresa actively let people under her care starve, she considered it a form of penance, she had the connections to get those people/villages food but thought their pain and slow miserable death would purify them for the hereafter.   So there's that.

(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F076dd0a50e0c1255009e-bd4b8aabaca29897bc751dfaf75b290c.r40.cf1.rackcdn.com%2Fimages%2Ffiles%2F000%2F006%2F085%2Foriginal%2Foriginal.0&hash=feb7833d371a474872740036461a3ee0a43dfbc3)
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: steve dave on December 06, 2013, 06:56:43 PM
Mother Teresa

Mother Theresa actively let people under her care starve, she considered it a form of penance, she had the connections to get those people/villages food but thought their pain and slow miserable death would purify them for the hereafter.   So there's that.

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well she's out
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: michigancat on December 06, 2013, 09:05:31 PM
Hmmm
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: OK_Cat on December 09, 2013, 08:29:54 AM
i'm going to assume that anything I read on goEMAW is true, so eff mother teresa.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Dugout DickStone on December 09, 2013, 10:20:58 AM
Hit the bricks, Mother T.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 09, 2013, 10:36:09 AM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: HerrSonntag on December 09, 2013, 11:02:27 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_9QyIzZd8&feature=player_detailpage#t=259 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS_9QyIzZd8&feature=player_detailpage#t=259)

P&T talk about Momma T in this segment (some more about her earlier in the show)  There's also a segment on the Dalai Lama, but I don't want to squeeze all the mystery out of this thread.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Brock Landers on December 09, 2013, 11:04:45 AM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).


I believe Mandela fell on the wrong side of the Commie/Not A Commie fence
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 09, 2013, 11:25:42 AM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).


I believe Mandela fell on the wrong side of the Commie/Not A Commie fence

I didn't think it came out that Mandela had once been a member of the South African Communist Party until well after Reagan's death?
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: mocat on December 10, 2013, 04:34:39 PM
this article is hilarious. lists a bunch of things about mandela to make you not like him. HE DID NOT SUPPORT THE WAR ON TERROR AND ACKNOWLEDGED THAT RACISM EXISTED IN EARLY 90'S NYC!  :curse:

http://thinkprogress.org/home/2013/12/06/3030781/nelson-mandela-believed-people-wont-talk/ (http://thinkprogress.org/home/2013/12/06/3030781/nelson-mandela-believed-people-wont-talk/)
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: ednksu on December 11, 2013, 01:17:27 PM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).


I believe Mandela fell on the wrong side of the Commie/Not A Commie fence

I didn't think it came out that Mandela had once been a member of the South African Communist Party until well after Reagan's death?
Mandela looked for support from anywhere when the West mushed him in that whole "apartheid" thing. Can't really blame him.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on December 11, 2013, 01:52:06 PM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).
SAY IT TO HIS FACE!
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: slackcat on December 11, 2013, 02:04:46 PM
Woof, awful thread.
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: Asteriskhead on December 11, 2013, 08:53:39 PM
reagan absolutely hated mandela.

that's because he was a jackass (reagan).
SAY IT TO HIS FACE!

he's dead.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: slackcat on December 12, 2013, 07:37:06 AM
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - The man accused of faking sign interpretation next to world leaders at Nelson Mandela's memorial told a local newspaper that he was hallucinating and hearing voices. Thamsanqa Jantjie did not describe his qualifications for being a sign language interpreter, but told The Star he works for an interpreting company that paid him $85 for interpreting Tuesday's event. He told Radio 702 Thursday he's receiving treatment for schizophrenia and had an episode while on stage. Jantjie did not address allegations by sign language experts that he faked interpretation for the Mandela memorial attended by scores of world leaders and broadcast internationally. The Star quoted him as saying: "I tried to control myself and not show the world what was going on. I am very sorry, it's the situation I found myself in.".    :ROFL:
Title: Re: Nelson Mandela
Post by: HerrSonntag on December 12, 2013, 10:40:45 AM
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