RIP Nelson Mandela

[over the mountain]

i have to admit, i dot really know what he did besides the obvious "led a civil rights revolution to challenge the apartheid theocracy of S. Africa as well as spending 20 plus years in jail"

but besides that sentence, that is really it.

It seems the conservatives of this country brand him a terrorist and mass murderer.
something like 147 republicans in the house voted "no" to a proclamation that he should be freed back in early 2000.

at some point this weekend i hope to read a good article on him ... preferably written in the 80s or 90s or earlier.