Excellent piece of writing by noted war commentator and world affairs columnist Gwynne Dwyer.
http://www.straight.com/news/390531/gwynne-dyer-nelson-mandelas-legacy
But what would he call this film? Pro-union propoganda?
Don't forget or neglect: Nelson Mandela was imprisoned as a communist and a terrorist Not because the color of his skin.
So are there not deeper issues at stake that are considered more of a wedge in politics than this mythological social construct called: "race"?
Such as Canadian union support of calling of Israels partition of Palestine as : "apartheid"?
http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2006/cosatu070606.html
Especially in light of last year’s mining tragedy at Marikana
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marikana_miners'_strike#16_August_shooting
new turns in development even as we write and speak bring to mind the same comparisons in place since from when blacks first made their first steps in their long march from slavery to freedom in the US.
the road was long and arduous.
But look. Change can happen over night , too.
http://www.moneyweb.co.za/moneyweb-mining/did-south-african-mining-just-grow-up
Are these the far left voices of the nation of Israel added to the din? Or is it a "classic" era-,.. race war?
http://forward.com/articles/178503/what-israel-should-learn-from-nelson-mandela/
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