tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post1907320220517914851..comments2023-07-04T21:12:47.972-05:00Comments on Why Am I Not Surprised?: On This Day In Historychangeseekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-32472160419638748342010-05-24T08:15:59.386-05:002010-05-24T08:15:59.386-05:00Greetings, Rethabile! I love your (new? newish?) ...Greetings, Rethabile! I love your (new? newish?) icon.<br /><br />Indeed, Mandela's frankness under duress has served as a template for me in my own personal and political development. In one section of his statement to the court, he outlines how the White Supremacist system in South Africa actually <i><b>forced</b></i> the ANC to turn to blowing things up by making it impossible to seek legal redress for their grievances or even draw attention to their plight any other way. I use it as a prime example in my discussion of the process of social change at the close of my Introductory Sociology courses.changeseekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18350201531677548579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16645996.post-7174563196920269832010-05-23T14:36:02.038-05:002010-05-23T14:36:02.038-05:00Yes, and his lawyer was particularly negative abou...Yes, and his lawyer was particularly negative about that last thought. And Mandela was insistent on putting it in.Rethabilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03523368313680103826noreply@blogger.com