HAPPY 87th BIRTHDAY, NELSON MANDELA!

Happy birthday brother nelson!

Remember this song from a long, long time ago?:

Free Nelson Mandela
Free, Free, Free, Nelson Mandela
Free Nelson Mandela
Twenty-one years in captivity
His shoes too small to fit his feet
His body abused but his mind is still free
Are you so blind that you cannot see

I say Free Nelson Mandela
I'm begging you
Free Nelson Mandela

He pleaded the causes of the ANC
Only one man in a large army
Are you so blind that you cannot see
Are you so deaf that you cannot hear his plea

Free Nelson Mandela
I'm begging you Free Nelson Mandela

Twenty-one years in captivity
Are you so blind that you cannot see
Are you so deaf that you cannot hear
Are you so dumb that you cannot speak

I say Free Nelson Mandela
I'm begging you
Oh free Nelson Mandela, free
Nelson Mandela I'm begging you
begging you Please free Nelson Mandela
free Nelson Mandela
I'm telling you, you've got to free Nelson Mandela

Now that was a terrific little song to dance to, while demanding justice at the very same time!:

Freeee-eeeeeee, Nelson Mandela!

How can you not remember that song.Know i'll be humming it in my head for the rest of the night.Thanx msolga

A pleasure, Amigo! Can't stop humming, either!

Looks like were the only two Nelson Mandela fans.but it is 2:30 in the morning.Think we'll get in trouble for going of topic

Oh, we CAN'T be the only two, Amigo! Surely!

Sombody just posted on your whale thread.

Oh, I saw!

I'll read up on the whale thing and tell one person a day for a week.How's that

I'm more than a little curious to know how Americans see Nelson Mandela. To me, he's a revered survivor & hero. But then, I'm wondering if the stories of the struggle for black independence in Sth Africa were as closely followed in the US as here in Oz & the UK? Once, on Abuzz, I attempted to start a celebratory discussion of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. A wonderfully brave, inspiring & humorous man, in the face of such adversity. Not one response. Couldn't figure it out, really...

Oh, please do, Amigo! God knows the whales could use all the friends they can get right now! <sigh>

In America nelson mandela was a line in a dance tune.Thats about it.We were like another planet we didn't know and therefore. didn't care what happened in the rest of the world.

Yes?

I remember I watched Nelson Mandela coming out of the prison about fifteen years ago on the sat TV live. It was the breakthrough of the history.
Cogratulations, Nelson Mandela.

H BDAY, Nelson.

I'm afraid so msolga but that all changed on 9/11 were now part of the rest of the world.