Seems liberals really have a thing for Communist revolutionaries, especially the violent ones.
On Thursday, Jesse Jackson actually compared former South African leader Nelson Mandela to Jesus Christ on Twitter. Seriously.
Mandela, like Jesus, Gandhi & Dr Martin Luther King, met external prosecution with internal character, indomitable will and stoic sacrifice.
— Rev Jesse Jackson Sr (@RevJJackson) December 13, 2013
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Not everyone was impressed with Jackson’s tweet:
@RevJJackson Do not compare Nelson Mandela to Jesus EVER!
— Claire Woods (@2LoveAMaltese) December 13, 2013
One person gave Jackson a little reminder:
https://twitter.com/proudusafan/status/411312112531959808
By the way, Jesus Christ wasn’t a Communist and he was never on the U.S. terrorist watch list like Mandela was. And at no time did Christ engage in the practice known as necklacing.
“Necklacing,” Wikipedia says, “is the practice of summary execution and torture carried out by forcing a rubber tire, filled with petrol, around a victim’s chest and arms, and setting it on fire. The victim may take up to 20 minutes to die, suffering severe burns in the process.”
“With our boxes of matches and our necklaces we shall liberate this country,” said Winnie Mandela, wife of the South African leader.
Jackson is supposedly a “reverend,” but I can’t help but wonder of what. Maybe he’s part of the “Church of What’s Happening Now.”
Related:
- MSNBC: Criticizing Obama’s ‘selfie’ at Mandela ceremony racist, sexist
- Sign language interpreter at Mandela ceremony called a ‘fake’
- Obama shakes hands with Raul Castro, appears to bow to Communist leader
- Bill O’Reilly: Nelson Mandela was a ‘great man’ and a Communist
- Nelson Mandela…a communist revolutionary morphed by the media into a saint
- S.C. sheriff snubs Obama, refuses to fly flag at half staff for Nelson Mandela
- White House marks death of Nelson Mandela with picture of Obama
