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What Ferguson Could Have Learned From Nelson Mandela
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| Nelson Mandela / Rev. Al Sharpton www.patrickwanis.com |
By Patrick Wanis, Aug. 29, 2014, Patrickwanis.com
“…blood is crying from the ground, crying for vengeance, crying for justice.”
This is the call by Pastor Charles Ewing, an uncle of Michael Brown, a black man who was killed by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri.
Like many activists and speakers connected to the protests, church services and even the eulogy for Michael Brown, the calls to action have been for vengeance and to make Michael Brown a martyr – a trigger for potentially more race riots and cries of racial injustice.
“No peace. Do not talk about peace. Give us weapons.”
This is the call by a mother who lost her child.
But it is not the call of Michael Brown’s mother.
It was the call during Apartheid in South Africa made to Nelson Mandela soon after his release from 27 years in prison.
There, the black people had suffered extraordinary injustices at the hands of the white ruling government.
Like Al Sharpton or any other activists who claim leadership over the black community, Nelson Mandela who was their true recognized leader, had to respond.
“There is only one way forward and that is peace.
I know that is not what you want to hear, but there is no other way.
I am your leader. I am going to tell you always when you are wrong. And I tell you now, you are wrong!
…I have lost 27 years in prison…I have forgiven them.”
Nelson Mandela didn’t puff up his chest or call for more anger.
He turned away from his own wife, Winnie Mandela who remained angry and continued to promote and fuel more anger and violence against the whites and each other. Winnie Mandela endorsed “necklacing” – burning people alive using tires and gasoline: “With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country.”
The blacks were killing the blacks – even burning them alive.
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