I posted this article to Facebook when we were all thinking about Nelson Mandela’s death this week. It lists six things that showed how politically radical he was. For many of us, and for me, it was an encouragement. Surprisingly, twenty-four people “liked it” and 14 others shared it! So as Mandela is canonized by the media and by history books this week, I want to return to his radicality and use it as an inspiration. The Think Progress articles articulated his radicality and framed in the way a Westerner might understand: he argued against the U.S.’s War on Terror, criticized American imperialism, believed that everyone should be free of poverty, called out racism in the U.S., allied with Castro, Gaddafi, and Arafat, and even support labor unions.
Un-canonizing Nelson Mandela
Un-canonizing Nelson Mandela
Un-canonizing Nelson Mandela
I posted this article to Facebook when we were all thinking about Nelson Mandela’s death this week. It lists six things that showed how politically radical he was. For many of us, and for me, it was an encouragement. Surprisingly, twenty-four people “liked it” and 14 others shared it! So as Mandela is canonized by the media and by history books this week, I want to return to his radicality and use it as an inspiration. The Think Progress articles articulated his radicality and framed in the way a Westerner might understand: he argued against the U.S.’s War on Terror, criticized American imperialism, believed that everyone should be free of poverty, called out racism in the U.S., allied with Castro, Gaddafi, and Arafat, and even support labor unions.