Cristy Li

Comrades Nelson Mandela and Fidel Castro that One Won’t Talk About in Their Revisionist Historical Tributes –Image: AshahedM@Twitter

Islamic Jihadist Yasser Arafat & Mandela –Image: Constantine Soriao

President Obama earlier this year compared former South African President Nelson Mandela to George Washington, adding that “Madiba’s moral courage, this country’s historic transition to a free nation has been a personal inspiration to me.”

There is much about Mandela’s life that seems to have become lost with all of the praise and accolades that are being bestowed on him ahead of his funeral scheduled to take place this week which Obama, together with former President’s Bush and Clinton will attend.

Forgotten by most and largely unreported by the national media is Mandela’s Communist past and decades on the U.S. Terrorism Watch List until 2008

Speaking at the Intl Women’s Forum in 2003 CNN reported that Mandela bashed America saying, “If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world it is the United States of America.”

Mandela like to many others before and after him have chosen to forget that it was the United States that saved the world from Nazi fascism and following the end of WW II, orchestrated with our allies the Berlin Airlift for more than a year, ferrying more than 2.3 million tons of food and cargo into defeated Germany, saving the nation from mass starvation and all the many other natural disasters around the globe where the United States leads relief efforts. Most recently, following Typhoon Haiyan that struck the Philippines in November, leaving the island nation devastated, thousands killed, hundreds of thousands others displaced and desperate for fresh water, food and supplies.

Unashamedly, President Obama and the media fails to report that in 1996 Mandela signed into law the ‘Choice on Termination Pregnancy Bill’ which Catholic News Agency reports granted state financing of abortion on demand up to the 20th week of pregnancy and abortion for ‘serious medical reasons’ until birth.

Mandela’s legacy has yet to be written, what history remembers of this man’s life is fortunately not up to long winded politicians of our time but will be left up to the ages, that may judge an individual, absent emotional tributes and recharacterizations that one may wish to pursue today.