Nelson Mandela R.I.P.
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- omg0
- Projectile0
"He always made his own bed, no matter where we traveled. I remember we were in Shanghai, in a very fancy hotel, and the Chinese hospitality requires that the person who cleans your room and provides you with your food, does exactly that. If you do it for yourself, it could even be regarded as an insult.
So in Shanghai I tried to say to him, 'Please don't make your own bed, because there's this custom here.' And he said, 'Call them, bring them to me.'
So I did. I asked the hotel manager to bring the ladies who would be cleaning the room, so that he could explain why he himself has to make his own bed, and that they not feel insulted. He didn't ever want to hurt people's feelings. He never really cared about what great big people think of him, but he did care about what small people thought of him. That used to amaze me. He didn't mind if he insulted a very important person, or said something to them that was unkind, because he said they could fend and fight for themselves. But he would never insult someone who did not have power."
- Jesse Duarte, former special assistant to Nelson Mandela
- reanimate0
RIP
It's easy to forget with the reaction today that the mainstream U.S. position was to support the apartheid regime and that Mandela was viewed as a terrorist.
- set0
Greatest boxer ever.
RIP
- set0
Greatest boxer ever.
RIP
- set0
Not a fan of him in men in black though
- set0
Not a fan of him in men in black though
- set0
Not a fan of him in men in black though
- set0
Not a fan of him in men in black though
- reanimate0
OK we get it...he's black
- Not anymoreset
- Yeah, and what? When you can say you have even done a fraction of this man achieved then speak freely... Otherwise shut the fuck up chump!necromation
- You missed the point. I was responding to the neverending jokes that he looks like Morgan Freeman and other black actorsreanimate
- Oh lighten up the pair of youset
- teh0
He wasn't the nice person he was made to be by the media he was a horrible man. Do your research people!
- uuuuuu0
he's also often called a "terrorist" by many right wing mouth offs without any historical context or explanation. first time I've heard him called a "horrible man", I'd like to hear some of your research based reasoning.
- Look it up! His wife was horrible and he was not for a raceless classless south africa.74LEO