In the pictures above you see two white men posing with South African President, Nelson Mandela.    Each white man, Bill Clinton and F W de Klerk, was the political leader of a nation at the time Mandela was imprisoned then freed.

One is hated by progressive Democrats – One is beloved.

So a simple set of social justice questions can be easily established around the timeframe of Mandela’s incarceration and the government of those leaders, and their nations, during the exact same timeframe.        Questions – (but don’t cheat):
Question #1 – Which “white” man presided over a nation who, in 1985, used a government helicopter to drop two gel-based explosive fire bombs on a group of blacks – Killing them ?

A.) Bill Clinton -or-  B.) F W de Klerk

Question #2 – Which “white” man presided over a nation who used military tanks to attack a peaceful compound holding black persons whose only unlawful activity was espousing political anxiety against the regime which surrounded them and held them captive ?

A.)  Bill Clinton  -or-  B.) F W de Klerk

Question #3 – Which “white” man then ordered the ensuing attack, with tanks and bombs, killing 29 black people who were captive in the compound ?

A.)  Bill Clinton -or- B.) F W de Klerk

Question #4 – Which “white” man ordered storm troopers to break into an apartment at gunpoint and tear a Latino child away from the arms of his family;  later demanding that child be sent to live out the remainder of his life in exile within a communist regime?

A.)  Bill Clinton  -or-  B.)  F W de Klerk

Question #5  – Which “white” man’s government ordered agents to assassinate an entire family, giving snipers a “green light” to shoot on sight, because of the fathers failure to report for a clerically mistaken filed court appearance ?

A.)  Bill Clinton  -or-   B.) F W de Klerk

Question #6 – Which “white” man’s government then assassinated a 14-year-old boy, his dog, and his mother as she ran while carrying a baby girl to her home ?

A.)  Bill Clinton    -or-   B.)  F W de Klerk

This weeks New Yorker magazine cover

Yes, the answers to all of these questions is “A” – Bill Clinton and/or the government of The United States of America.
It is ironic, heck, hypocritical in the extreme – but mostly ironic, to watch a nation of liberals now stand aghast in visible and collective agreement that F W de Klerk is a horrible man who led an oppressive nation based on political Apartheid.
Yet somehow this same group can cognitively ignore the oppressive atrocities instituted by their own political party – including many examples of regime terror by one of their most beloved leaders.
It was a black democrat mayor, Wilson Goode, who used State helicopters to fire bomb black people in his own city of Philadelphia.     Good grief folks, he dropped bombs on them.     It was Bill Clinton who executed, yes executed, over 50 people in Waco Texas, including 29 black men, women and children.   The federal government used tanks to fire explosives into the building to burn them alive.  It was Bill Clinton who saw Elian Gonzalez ripped from the arms of his U.S. family and exiled to Cuba by federal authorities.
Yet somehow it’s either, hip, cool or perhaps emotionally fashionable to point fingers at South African politics during the time Mandela was incarcerated and Bono was singing on his behalf.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
Democrats talk of genocide in Africa like it’s “over there“, while totally ignoring the black genocide taking place right here in America:

Estimates are that 10,000,000 black babies have been aborted in the past 30 years.  While Black women account for only 13 percent of the female U.S. population, they account for over 30 percent of all U.S. abortions.  In 2008, 75,960 Black teen girls aged 15-19 had abortions (link).
Do you think de Klerk killed 10 million black babies in his tenure ?
Democrats talk about AIDS being “over there” –  meanwhile 47%, almost half, of all U.S. black teen girls have a sexually transmitted disease. (link)    Did I mention we have a black president with two black daughters.  The statistical odds would suggest what ?
Nelson Mandela was jailed for 27 years under charges he conspired against the South African Government.    …..What is it that Edward Snowden is charged with again?
Waterboarding for information from known terrorists is bad says a black president.     But using drones to evaporate potential terrorists, including U.S. citizens and their families and children, without any due process is somehow ok, according to that same president ?
Timothy McVeigh is a horrible domestic terrorist.   Yet Bill Ayers is heralded in a recent movie starring Robert Redford.
And then there’s THIS.
The issue is not that any of these examples are ok in either country, or what Bill Ayers, Tim McVeigh, Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden did, was or is acceptable.   That’s not the point.
The point is that when you choose to point a finger at an example of a wrong committed by another, it’s entirely possible to find that exact same example, or worse, within your own affiliation.
There is a profound difference between “freedom from” and “freedom of”.