On this day ( 8 years ago)

 When you listen to these snake skin oil men, these pillars and powers that be; spinning their wondrous forked-tongue words of deceptive adoration for Mandela in the coming days and weeks; remember that Apartheid didn't end because these mighty powers of the establishment magnanimously decreed it; no apartheid ended because everyday working people, got off their knees and demanded it and the price was paid for in broken bones and bodies, and blood that ran in the streets. Freedom is never free. MB

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