Mandela Amnesia: The Right Wing opposed Mandela and the Changes he insisted upon in South Africa

Right Wingers are now acting like they supported Mandela, when that was far from the truth.  The US Right Wing saw Mandela as a terrorist and supported his being jailed for life.

Now that he’s dead, and can cause no more trouble, Nelson Mandela is being mournedacross the ideological spectrum as a saint. But not long ago, in Washington’s highest circles, he was considered an enemy of the United States. Unless we remember why, we won’t truly honor his legacy.

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan placed Mandela’s African National Congress onAmerica’s official list of “terrorist” groups. In 1985, then-Congressman Dick Cheneyvoted against a resolution urging that he be released from jail. In 2004, after Mandela criticized the Iraq War,

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/05/don-t-sanitize-nelson-mandela-he-s-honored-now-but-was-hated-then.html