Amos and other Americans who would cast aspersions on Mandela for criticizing the US empire...

...you have swallowed official American propaganda hook, line & sinker.

The list of atrocities attributable to the US empire is much longer, and much darker than even Mandela's list.

Lest you think the world has forgotten the legacies of:

American slavery

Genocide of North American indigenous peoples

Countless invasions, assassinations, military coups lead by US military and covert forces around the world, including:

Vietnam

Cambodia

Grenada

Haiti

Panama

Argentina

Nicaragua

El Salvador

Guatemala

Iran

Iraq

Afghanistan

Palestine

And then the horrific attacks against hundreds of thousands of civilians with weapons of mass destruction that make Saddam Hussein look like a Girl Scout, including a few of the more notable ones, already mentioned above.

There is no nation, no people on earth as violent and dangerous as the Americans. Individual citizens' are to blame in a democracy. You yourselves ARE to blame for the things you allow your government to do IN YOUR NAME.

If you are not actively fighting to stop your government's reign of terror on this planet, you are an enemy of all the citizens of the world.