Alan,
Your Happy Birthday wishes to Nelson Mandela and comments about poverty are right on the mark.
I join you and millions of people around the world wishing Nelson Mandela a Happy 90th Birthday.
I would add one thing; Nelson Mandela is one heck of a man to have endured so many years of repression and he still has the humanity to suggest to the multi-national corporations they need to return the wealth they have stolen from the people of South Africa because as anyone can see the workers of South Africa are organizing to take what rightfully belongs to them.
Those greedy people who have become filthy rich by creating so much misery for so many people are once again ignoring the warnings Mandela is giving to them by suggesting they should use their wealth to fight poverty.
No doubt these greedy capitalists are going to push South African workers to take what they are entitled to.
In my opinion, the struggle against apartheid was just a dress rehearsal for the struggle to come.
I have been to South Africa a number of times and I could just feel the revolution that is brewing.
Mandela has given these greedy capitalists fair warning; just as he warned that racist apartheid oppression would be eliminated by the struggle of the people. They didn't listen to Mandela's plea for justice then and they won't now.
Brianna Walters
Member, NAACP