03-09-2018, 10:17 AM
(03-09-2018, 10:11 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Yea, it's not like comparing slavery 150 years ago to apartheid 25 years ago. Many of these people are still benefiting from apartheid policies that they lived under.
This should be addressed, just not in this fashion.
Mandela deserves far more credit for his attitude after taking power than anything else. An intelligent man, he realized that retribution is counter productive and that the only way forward was to start from scratch. Realistically, the end of the apartheid government should have been a complete bloodbath, that it wasn't is testament to Mandela's approach. You can't move forward if you constantly seek to blame, or look down upon, your fellow citizens for the actions of their predecessors. We would do well to internalize that lesson in this country.
