Um...

Why is he such a figure of peace, when the country he ruled went into a disaster with crime?

Do you think it is right that South African's affirmative action (under Nelson Mandela's ruling party) has the right to elivate one race at the cost of another? (even sports it has been impliminted, like a girl recently was stripped from a gold medal just becuase the racial quota system was wrong)

Just wanne hear, what made Nelson Mandela the peace icon, when the country he lives in has no peace or equality.

THANK YOU!!!!!

just one more example of how twisted our world is.
its all a matter of twisted perspective brought to you in the name of political correctedness and "liberalism". for some reason any minority that has ever been repressed seems to always get a favorable light in the media no mater what happens. its even better if they are peaceful and suffer at the hands of terrible fascist dictators or imperialistic dogmas.

[Edited on 6-5-2004 by NothingMakesSense]

When people close to you gets payed off becuase the "skin color" aint right, you start to ask yourself these questions

Originally posted by Slickwik
When people close to you gets payed off becuase the "skin color" aint right, you start to ask yourself these questions

You should perhaps explain a little rather than post some innocuous comment

Then again I ask, why is he a peace icon, I know the history of my country.

I kind of wish you knew the grammar of you're country, but to answer your question, here is what the Nobel Peace Prize people had to say:



The Nobel Peace Prize 1993

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1993 to Nelson R. Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.

From their different points of departure, Mandela and de Klerk have reached agreement on the principles for a transition to a new political order based on the tenet of one man-one vote. By looking ahead to South African reconciliation instead of back at the deep wounds of the past, they have shown personal integrity and great political courage.

Ethnic disparities cause the bitterest conflicts. South Africa has been the symbol of racially-conditioned suppression. Mandela's and de Klerk's constructive policy of peace and reconciliation also points the way to the peaceful resolution of similar deep-rooted conflicts elsewhere in the world.

The previous Nobel Laureates Albert Lutuli and Desmond Tutu made important contributions to progress towards racial equality in South Africa. Mandela and de Klerk have taken the process a major step further. The Nobel Peace Prize for 1993 is awarded in recognition of their efforts and as a pledge of support for the forces of good, in the hope that the advance towards equality and democracy will reach its goal in the very near future.

Didn't Mandela's wife burn people alive by putting tires around them and lighting them up? If not, I must be misinformed. I'm pretty sure I have heard that before. Could be hearsay also. I'm at work right now and don't have the time to look it up. Anyone know for sure if this is correct?

If it is correct, doesn't seem very peaceful to me. Granted it's his wife, but come on most "peaceful" people wouldn't be married to someone that would do something like that.

Mandela is no saint.
The only reason he got the Nobel Peace prize is because he sat in jail during apartheid and was a symbol of everything that stood against the white run system.

Sure, apartheid was evil and I have found some of the white South African's I have met to be some of the most bigoted people around. But Mandela was no better.

When he got into power he went around gradually turning the only good economic state in Africa into a crime-ridden hole.
What was really annoying about the guy more than anything was how he became a voice for world peace, yet all the time in office, he sat on his ass whilst the rest of Africa went up in flames around him and he didn't lift a finger. Mandela is just a window dressed Mugabe.

He's righteous enough but when it came down to putting his words into action he was as full of # as any other politician.

Originally posted by TruthStrgnrThanFiction
If Mandela wasnt released to negiotiate with the old government in South Africa there would have been a blood bath...a civil war..blacks killing whites. That could still happen further down the line, some even say when Mandela dies the blacks will kill the whites like flies (a black politician was quoted as saying that)

That would have been the day.

Well, i also live there and i must admit. It is a little off that it even influences sport.

Why is this Mandela's fault?

Both sides are still locked behind color lines. In america the emanicipation proclaimation is over 100 years old and still there is hatred on both sides. Equality doesn't happen over night. You refer to the blacks as "his people" until you can say "my people" this hatred will continue. You have to embrace all of your countrymen and they have to learn to embrace you as well. Their deaths are your deaths. You are all one people but as long as you think separate you will hate each other and these injustices will continue. If you don't see it that way then you are part of the problem.



[Edited on 8-5-2004 by Saphronia]