Hypocrisy is not just a Nigerian thing, it has a world wide spread .

The Mandela the Americans are celebrating today was on the United States terror list, with travelling restrictions Until 1998,

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During his trip to South Africa, President
Obama graciously and reverentially praised
Nelson Mandela as a leader who inspired
people around the world and that included
himself. This was more than just praise for
one of the planet’s most respected leaders,
the man Obama called by his traditional
tribal (and affectionate) name Madiba. He
also accurately noted that Mandela was a
driving force in the freedom struggle
against apartheid and the post-apartheid
struggle for democratic, non-racial rule in
South Africa. Obama’s heartfelt remarks
about Mandela have been part of the
consistent U.S. government’s narrative
about Mandela since the official dumping of
apartheid in 1990 and black majority rule in
1993.
But the embrace of Mandela and the reality
of black majority rule in South Africa have
come at a steep price. The price was the U.S.
government’s decades old assault on
Mandela’s character and leadership. The
malign treatment by the U.S. of Mandela
didn’t end with his release from prison in
1990, the official unbanning of his African
National Congress, or even his becoming the
first democratically elected President of
South Africa in 1993. It didn’t end when he
took the rare, tactful and universally
praised step of stepping down from the
presidency in 1999 after one term. It didn’t
even end as then Democratic presidential
candidate Obama in 2008 inched close to his
election as America’s first African-American
president.
The U.S. government still continued to
brand Mandela a terrorist and the ANC a
terrorist organization. This ridiculous tag
on Mandela as a terrorist chilled U.S.
relations with Mandela and the South
African government even after the power
takeover. The chill began with the Reagan
administration’s well-documented fierce
resistance to the demand that corporations
and non-profits divest their financial
investments in South Africa, and the
administration’s refusal to support UN and
international trade sanctions and an arms
embargo against South Africa. The Reagan
administration’s line was that the ANC was
Cuban backed and posed a communist
threat to South Africa and by extension U.S.
investments. Mandela by then was well into
his second decade in prison on Robbins
Island, posed no threat to the South African
government, and had no direct say in the
political or military operations of the ANC.
Yet he was still regarded by the Reagan
administration as a dangerous subversive.
Mandela’s release from prison, the
recognition by the apartheid government of
the ANC, and his subsequent presidential
election changed little, except the
terminology of how Mandela was tagged.
This dovetailed with the U.S.’s shift to the
global fight against terrorism. Mandela
instead of being a communist and a
subversive simply had the terrorist label
slapped on him. Though Regan had dumped
him and the organization on the terrorist
watch list in the 1980s and it stood
unchallenged during those years. It took a
concerted effort by civil rights activists and
many congressional Democrats to end the
political targeting of Mandela. But it was
not a slam dunk. As late as 2007, ANC
officials, and that included Mandela, who
sought to travel to the U.S. still had to get a
State Department waiver or special
certification in order to enter the country.
Mandela had to get that even for his White
House visit with George W. Bush in 2005.
The issue finally came to a head that year
when Barbara Masekela, the former South
African ambassador to the United States,
was denied a visa to visit a dying cousin in
the United States. A chagrined Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice called it
“embarrassing.” In April, 2008, she urged
Congress to remove Mandela and the
organization from the terrorist watch list
With a big prod from the Congressional
Black Caucus, Congress finally voted to
remove the now 90 year old (and Nobel
Prize winner in 1993) Mandela and ANC
from the U.S. government’s official terrorist
watch list. But even the language of the bill
that removed him from the list was hardly a
full throated, ringing praise of the ANC and
Mandela, or a disavowal of the disgraceful
history of his treatment. It did not
acknowledge the towering role and stature
of Mandela in the fight for justice. It simply
said that it would add the ANC to a list of
groups that should not be considered
terrorist organizations. The closest
Congress came to repudiating the official
maltreatment of Mandela was then
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry’s retort
that it was “a great shame” that his name
was on the watch list. Rice, for her part,
followed this and called Mandela “a great
leader.”
Bush promptly signed the bill in July, 2008
after Senate passage. This seemingly closed
the book on not a 20 year but the forty year
branding of Mandela as a political pariah by
the US government. This vicious legacy left
a deep scar of suspicion and doubt, and
distance from South Africa’s government
leaders, and colored relations between the
governments that hasn’t ended even today
as the U.S. and the world publicly celebrate
Madiba’s colossal place in history.




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we dont need to be reminded that America is a hypocrite

Hypocrisy is the other name for America just as Corruption is the other name for Jonathan and Sheppopotamus is the other name for Dame Impatience and Monkey banana is the other name for Obasanjo and Frog-Eye is the other name for Tinubu.