http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpw8AU3wMsM&noredirect=1

As long as I live, I’ll never forget the speech he gave the day at a rally in Cape Town in 1990. Not one word of retribution or anger. Soon followed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: “Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected for public hearings. Perpetrators of violence could also give testimony and request amnesty from both civil and criminal prosecution.” Meanwhile, the New York Times is mischaracterizing Mandela an “icon of “peaceful resistance”. It’s amusing to see how confused the media gets over Mandela’s long and loyal friendship with History’s Second Greatest Monster (after Jimmy Carter, of course), Fidel Castro. Anyway, the ANC was in a shooting war against apartheid. The white racist government several times offered Mandela his freedom if he would renounce the violent struggle – he refused. Every day after his release that there wasn’t a bloodbath seemed like a triumph. I’ll tell you one thing, the white people of South Africa have an awful lot to thank Mandela for. Starting with their lives.