{"id":9065,"date":"2013-12-08T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9065"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T23:38:23","slug":"remembering-nelson-mandela-remembering-comrade-joe-slovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9065","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Nelson Mandela remembering Comrade Joe Slovo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the media rushes to embrace the legacy of Nelson Mandela, my memory is Joe Slovo. When the World’s media were on their campaign to overthrow the government of South Africa, in most pictures you see of Mandela, you’ll spot the same white man standing behind Mandela. <\/p>\n

Comrade Joe Slovo was an immigrant from Lithuania and was the head of the South Africa Communist Party and a close advisor to Mandela. I don’t know if he played a role in the non-violent ANC using rubber tires filled with gasoline to burn people alive in a process known as necklacing.<\/p>\n

Nelson Mandela visited Detroit when I was living in Michigan in the area. The Internet didn’t yet exist for the public – at the time, discussions occurred on networks of local bulletin boards and to some degree on Usenet.<\/p>\n

I remember asking the day of the visit… If I went down to Tiger Stadium and burned an ANC flag, would the reaction be “hey, it’s only a piece of cloth!” like people on the left do in response to burning the flag of the United States – and what the answer to that hypothetical question that says about us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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