The former South African president and some in the now-ruling African National Congress are still blacklisted under U.S. laws and need special permission to enter the United States more than a decade after the apartheid struggle ended.
Makes you wonder about getting off a blacklist yourself if, God forbid, you are seen at a protest, or otherwise get out of line with The Great Wealth Bondage Freedom Machine. Better to stick with business as usual philanthropy and call it a Journey from Success to Significance.
Mandela remains a bad example. His slogan for dealing with white privilege was "Attack". Not something you're likely to hear from good blacks like Colin, Condi or Barack.
Posted by: Jay Taber | June 20, 2008 at 01:03 PM
Yes, we with the exception of a few black preachers of liberation theology are past all that rhetoric of confrontation and conflict. As you note, the old agigtators, activists, and investigators are passing on. The rising generation wants rhetoric to be that of tranquility and hope, in tune with their meds. What they have lost they never valued, citizenship. The experience they had of anomie was cured with pills.
Posted by: Phil | June 20, 2008 at 01:05 PM