The world mourns, and the right tries to "discredit" and destroy.

The right in this country is quite a bunch. Poor Brother Mandela is not yet cold in his grave and they are already trying to destroy his legacy and all that he has worked for.

Of course, for them, this is nothing new. Their hatred of the man runs deep.

I suppose that all of this worldwide adulation and love for Mandela is making their heads explode.

The truth is a beautiful thing. Everybody except the willfully ignorant can see it.

They (the right)  have labeled him a racist, a terrorist, and called him every vile name in the book.  (Heck, by that definition George Washington was a terrorist, and I think that most Brits would agree with that label.) Just check out any right wing blog and go to their comments section and you will see what I am talking about. They even turned on one of their own when he tried to be gracious. Poor Ted Cruz.

One of their leading voices couldn't say one nice word about the man without repeatedly declaring that he is a "Communist" at every turn. (Mr. O'Reilly should read more, and try to learn about people like Joe Slovo; a real Communist.)  Forgetting, of course, that the ANC was not a Communist organization,  but at the height of their struggle for equality in their homeland, regimes in the West sided with their oppressors. Who were they going to  turn to? America? Please!

This was the pattern in Africa. Poor people who were oppressed turned to an ideology that gave them hope. That was Communism, not capitalism, because capitalism represented their oppressors. That is the system of government that countries with monetary and geopolitical investments in these countries wanted to protect.

So even if Mandela was a Communist who could blame him? America and her allies had no interest in changing course in South Africa. They were fine with business as usual. Even if business meant brutal attacks and the slaughter of innocent people.

Here in America, thanks to Ronald Reagan, Brother Mandela and the ANC were labeled terrorist, and Mandela was put on a terrorist watch list until 2008.

Imagine that. While he met with President George H. Bush in the White House in 1990; he was a terrorist. ("Secret Service, keep an eye on that old man who just spent 27 years in prison. He might be up to something.")

Anyway, fortunately there are more people of good conscience in the world than bad ones. And Nelson Mandela's true character was revealed for the entire world to see when he was alive.

"Mandela has long espoused the way of reconciliation and called for there to be no racial violence in retribution for apartheid.

 

In transitioning from the segregationist regime to a non-racial democracy, he partnered closely with his white predecessor, former President Frederik Willem de Klerk, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with him.

 

At a sports match in 1995, as President, Mandela made a gesture of support to white South Africans that drew gasps.

 

Rugby was the dominant sport of white South Africans of Dutch heritage -- Afrikaners -- and was reviled by blacks.

 

During a world championship match against New Zealand, Mandela walked onto the pitch wearing the jersey of his team's captain. The scene inspired the 2009 Hollywood movie "Invictus" directed by Clint Eastwood.

 

The crowd began chanting his name. They were almost all white."

 

Yes, but they were not right wing American, whites.

Another bogeyman.

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Glenn Beck was crying today on his radio program. He was begging anyone with an ounce of patriotism to "act" and "get involved" for their country. The Communist, he said, have infiltrated our borders and they are going to eat our women and children. Well, he didn't go quite that far....or, wait, maybe he did.

This man is absolutely certifiable. And you know what's even crazier? One in every one hundred A-merry-cans have been watching this fruit cake every night on Television Rwanda (AKA FOX News) Beck has become the cynosure for the anti black anti Obama sentiment in this country. The thing is, I still can't figure out if he is serious or not. I heard him on the radio today and he sure sounded serious. (The man was crying for crying out loud!) On and on he went about Van Jones, a "devout Communist" (or so says Beck) who has declared his allegiance to Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. "He is the founder of a communist group who denounced America after 911" he said, and then he released an explosive audio tape (his words) of Jones passionately speaking about taking back America from those people. " Who does that sound like?" He kept saying. "Does one Jeremiah Wright come to mind when you hear Jones?" Now folks, I have to tell you, if this is the same Van Jones that I know, nothing could be farther from the truth. But I am sure Beck and his congregation will not let the facts get in the way of their fantasy. Quotes like the following have them all damp around the crotch area:

“We upheld the Marxist critique of capitalist exploitation. We agree with Lenin’s analysis of the state and the party. And we found inspiration and guidance in the insurgent revolutionary strategies developed by third world revolutionaries like Mao Tse-Tung and Amilcar Cabral.”

Yeah....OK....and?

"We cannot let these people get away with this", he kept saying. "We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to fight for the country we believe in." Wow! And you know what's scary about this? Somewhere in middle A-merry-ca there is another Timothy McVeigh listening to this shit and being inspired to plot his next assault on all those who are Un-American.

This, of course, is all bullshit. I wonder if it ever occurred to Mr. Beck and his wingnut friends that the Tiger Woods president with the Muslim sounding name was democratically elected by the people of these divided states? I mean I don't know about you folks reading this, but that doesn't seem too much like communism to me.

But I get the strategy: Attach Jones to Obama, find another black bogeyman, and scare the heck out of middle A-merry-ca. Right now Van Jones is the flavor of the month. Beck will find more. - I guarantee you that they will all look the same.-

What's sad about all this is that there are perfectly legitimate things that Beck and those of his ilk could be debating with Obama about. Health care, the war, immigration, and a slew of other programs and policies that have been implemented since his he took office. Instead, we are left with this: Propaganda, fear mongering, and lies. All the while Beck's ratings continue to go through the roof. And why? Because he is telling some of our fellow A-merry-cans just what they want to hear.

*Pic courtesy of TheExaminer.com