Nelson Mandela Released From Prison (1990)

On this week (11th of February) in 1990, anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison following negotiations with South African President F. W. de Klerk. In 1994, Mandela was elected President, becoming the country’s first black head of state.

Mandela, a leading member of the African National Congress (ANC), had been convicted on charges of sabotage at the Rivonia Trial in 1964, and was sentenced to life imprisonment, serving 27 years before his release in 1990.

During his years in prison, Mandela became a major symbol of both the domestic and international anti-apartheid movement. In 1988, hundreds of millions people watched the “Free Nelson Mandela” concert, televised from London’s Wembley Stadium.

Following decades of mass internal resistance along with global boycotts and sanctions, newly inaugurated South African State President F.W. de Klerk lifted the state of emergency law, legalized anti-apartheid opposition groups such as the ANC, South African Communist Party, and Pan-Africanist Congress, and released many political prisoners.

Mandela was released on February 11th, 1990 to massive international attention. Driven to Cape Town’s City Hall through crowds, Mandela gave a speech where he declared his intention to participate in negotiations, although he noted that the ANC’s armed struggle was not yet over before change had taken place.

In 1994, he was elected South Africa’s first black president in the country’s first ever multiracial election.

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

  • Nelson Mandela

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      Genocide denial and racism, the BBC with the double whammy on one night. Lots of the reporting right now claims that the BBC “failed” to edit the N-word out, but considering they went out of their way to edit out “Free Palestine” I feel like saying they failed is letting them slide. You can’t tell me there was no intention. Fuck the BBC.

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      I just saw Thinkpiece Tribe’s community note on it and there were countless copy-paste comments literally just immediately pulling out the “ABLEIST” card while very obviously ignoring the racism issue and claiming anyone who calls it out doesn’t know how Tourettes works. Nearly all of them were just saying the exact same thing like they were following a script, so I wouldn’t be too surprised if chuds are currently botting the conversation too

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        Regular society: we condemn rape and even if our state is too corrupt to hold them accountable, at least we don’t celebrate rapists for being rapists.

        Jewish israelis:

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        Reminding me of how I’ve seen some Zionist “vegans” degrade Palestinians for celebrating Eid and riding donkeys, as if Palestinians are, to even the slightest degree, within the material conditions to be educated on opposing animal exploitation.

        Fascinating how they’ll use that as a cudgel against brown people but ignore that the Zionist entity has very high rates of flesh consumption.

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        This is kind of my thinking to be honest.

        I care a lot more about human children being killed and maimed by the zionist bastards but I guess maybe someone will see that what we were saying all along is true because of the kittens and puppies. Its strange to type this sentence out though.

        I am honestly just tired and angry and deeply hurting.

        Death to israel and america. Death to zionism.

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    Gonna have to take a test bus ride to this CNA academy. Kind of nervous. I haven’t taken the bus in a bit, and it’s somewhat a distance, but hopefully it works out.

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      I do not envy you. CNAs are really under appreciated and underpaid. I spent several months in the hospital and the amount of bodily fluids I saw them deal with was shocking.

      You can get really good schedules, though. Some places do 12 hour shifts 14 days in a row to maintain continuity of care, but then give you like a whole ass month off. Plus, since they’re 84 hour weeks, you get 44 hours of overtime.

      Not sure since covid, though. They may be back to 3x 8 hour shifts each day in most places instead of 2x 12 hour shifts for when to rotate staff.

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    I swear to fucking God if I talk to a Black American and they tell me that they have no African ancestry and are indigenous to the Americas, I will immediately stop talking to them. No exceptions.

      • because Africa is depicted as savage and uncivilised by the white supramacist media, because black history is depicted as wretched slaves by white supramacist media,they see the 50 million documentaries the hundreds of mr beast videos of African kids begging and they want to divorce themselves from that, so they clutch into anything to appeal to the white supramist system, happens with many groups, for example the “I’m not Arab I’m Egyptian/phonecian” guys, and the whole honorary whites thing.

        This can be fixed by learning more about Africa and black history, seen and written by actual Africans and sympathizers instead of KKK members.

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    Let me get this straight:

    There is a real life global cabal of capitalists, intellectuals, politicians, power brokers, and other high level parasites who traffic children for sexual slavery and sometimes eat the children.

    And people in this cabal routinely talk about their Talmudic racial supremacist worldview which includes hating communism, poor people, non-white people, Islam, and non-Jews (“goyim”).

    And the members of this cabal are above any form of institutional accountability.

    And this Cabal is intimately linked to the zionist cancer known as israel (but the entire mainstream media is deflecting and instead saying its Russian.)

    And this information is coming out 30 months into a Jewish-supremacist US-israeli live-streamed genocide war on Gaza.

    But liberals still want you to shed tears over “antisemitism”.

    Sarkha intensifies

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      The cannibalism afaik has been speculative or false but everything else has been real and yes libs do want you to focus on the fake antisemitism over human lives being killed worldwide, they’re liberals aka the moderate wing of fascism.

      • if I remember correctly it was mentioned by “anonymous informant” which could be the FBI trying to throw shit in like they always do, it’s not unlikely and it wouldn’t surprise me if they actually did it, so it’s better to avoid talking about it unless proper evidence comes out. If I remember correctly there was a rich person who used korean baby foreskins for a beauty treatment.

        And until then it’s not like we’re out of reasons to hate the U.S. elites, they would deserve having their lives end far before reaching the Epstein stuff, they were funding genocides, creating famines, starting wars, sucking the earth dry.

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        The cannibalism afaik has been speculative or false

        Ah good to know. I dont have the stomach or time to look through the files and have mostly just seen summaries.

        libs do want you to focus on the fake antisemitism over human lives being killed worldwide,

        Yes its really cruel

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          I would not be surprised at all if it ended up being true, the elites are the lowest of humanity with 0 morals but I’ve already seen reactionary conservatives trying to use this point specifically to “prove” their satanic conspiracy theories and to justify forcing Christianity on everyone to “prevent this” as if they’re not the ones who support this shit against those they deem the right targets. This is literally just capitalism aiding the rich who are bored engaging in more and more depraved vices not lack of christiniaty.

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      Americans are being bludgeoned over the head with clear evidence that the capitalist class are in it together and that they, the proletariat, are nothing but an expendable resource to be exploited and somehow they still can’t yank their heads out of their asses for long enough to see just how fucked up their world views are and that there are no “good guys” to be had in the capitalist class.

    • And people in this cabal routinely talk about their Talmudic racial supremacist worldview which includes hating communism, poor people, non-white people, Islam, and non-Jews (“goyim”).

      I begin to realize, through my admittedly banana brain, how anti-communist horseshoe theory deflects from the fact that fascism and liberalism, especially Zionism which puts its hands into both, are 2 sides of the same coin and thus adaptable to that than I thought.

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      Yeah I don’t like it either. They want to profit off our culture and perceived sexuality while destroying our countries. Bad Bunny seems cool but I really don’t give a shit about his halftime performance.

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          Thats the shit that gets me. Bad Bunny made some very clear choices in how the show was presented as more of a pride in being Latin American and resisting assimilation

          But you got all these lib mfers talking about pride in being USians and whitewashing the entire messaging because all they ever want to do is dunk on Trump/Republicans and act like Democrats are good guys.

  • it is Paranoia when the soviets were weary of nazis, of spies, of the capitalists wanting to nuke them.

    It is paranoia when a third world leader is weary of colonialism coming back, of imperialists funding terrorist cells and color revolutions.

    But it’s not paranoia for Americans to unironically think the DPRK will try to invade them, that Russia is “intervening” in their elections.

    the term is psycho misanalysis of an enemy who is aware.

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      This reminded me of a conversation I was having with my mom a couple of years ago where she said something along the lines of being afraid that Cuba, Venezuela, Or Russia may do something to the US. I told her that’s ridiculous. But the thing is that the propaganda runs deep.

      Even though she spent most of her life in the Dominican Republic, much of the same anti-Communist/Pro-US sentiment is felt from the pressure the US imposed on it. I’m sure its the same in other places, especially in Latin America due to its proximity to the US empire.

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    Really wish I could talk about Mamdani catering to Zionist narratives without getting a screed about how I can’t expect him to be Stalin in response

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        Love logging onto hexbear dot net to see pro-Kamala talking points with find+replace for the names

        Really captures that “speaking with a DNC PR consultant” feel.

        But hey, at least the bus Palestinians are getting thrown under is free to ride!

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          He hasn’t even been that great locally. Cops got sent to crack the heads of protesters at a hotel ICE agents were staying in, he did the “officer involved shooting” thing, endorsed Hocul (zionist, strike breaker, cop supporter) even though she has resisted funding his programs. Oh and the newest “great” great thing, resuming sweeps of homeless encampments, just giving a slightly longer notice (7 days vs 3 I think under Adams).