See Video: South African Jews Recite Mourners Kaddish for Mandela By Melanie Nathan, March 13, 2015. When Mandela died the most pious of South African Jews and the most secular of South African Jews all mourned – we had lost Tata Madiba, the man who had brought freedom for all, to South Africa. President Jacob […]
BDS Protest Triggers Calls to Kill South African Jews
The BDS movement is clearly now a tool for anti-Semitism By Melanie Nathan, March 12, 2015. Threatening to kill South African Jews is surely not the South Africa Mandela would have endorsed. Unfortunately the BDS movement in South Africa is causing anti-Semitic terror. Reports have emerged from Johannesburg, that Protesters chanted anti-Semitic slogans and threatened […]
Obama’s Strategy in Refusing to fall for Religion Bait by ISIS
The stupidity or aggression of the American Christian Right! By Melanie Nathan, February 16, 2015. The White House has received criticism for not referencing the religion of the 21 Egyptians who have been beheaded by ISIS. The victims have been described in media reports as “Coptic Christians.” . Here is the statement released by Press […]
Slavery and Arab Apartheid
Freed slave Simon Deng talks about the lies of the Durban Conference “By exaggerating Palestinian suffering, and by blaming the Jews for it, the UN has muffled the cries of those who suffer on a far larger scale.” By Melanie Nathan, August 24, 2014. I have not put much on this BLOG about the Israel […]
Maxim Martsinkevich the Russian Anti-Gay Terrorist gets 5 years
By Melanie Nathan, August 18, 2014 According to LGBTQ Nation, the leader of the Russian anti-gay vigilante group “Occupy Pedophilia,” “who is alleged to have lured LGBT youth to abusive encounters through fake social media profiles, was sentenced Friday to five years in a Russian penal colony.” We had reported extensively here on OBLOGDEE about […]
Why I feel Shame on this Martin Luther King Jr Birthday
Why this MLK Day feels like no other to me! Posted by Melanie Nathan, January 21, 2014. I cannot help but wonder about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jnr. and what he would done about the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda, as well as the Jail the Gays Bill in Nigeria. I imagine Dr. King in the […]
Shutdown the U.S. Government?
By Melanie Nathan, October 12, 2013. I may have been seen to be silent as this is not an issue that OBLOGDEE tends to write about. However I have been somewhat vocal on social media. I personally think the shutdown of the U.S. government boils down to the racist Tea Party control of the Republican […]
South Africans Deliver the First People’s Pride
By Melanie Nathan, October 09, 2013. Johannesburg People’s Pride (JHBPP) took place in Constitution Hill on the 5th of October 2013. The theme People’s Pride indeed spoke for itself, because it embodied all kinds of People. JHBPP was not only for LGBTI people even heterosexuals were there. Lebo Mashile (poet) also graced the day with her presence. […]
Mandela stands tall in Washington D.C. with 2 U.S. Congresswomen
Congresswomen Maxine Waters and Eleanor Holmes Norton revisit their part in the Anti-Apartheid movement at the unveiling of the Mandela Statue in Washington D.C. By Melanie Nathan, October 01, 2013 A statue commemorating former South African President Nelson Mandela was unveiled last week at an historic ceremony in front of the South African Embassy in […]
The Mandela Timeline
South African former President Nelson Mandela. This illustration depicts the life of Nelson Mandela and is a good reference for students who want to encapsulate his life in an easy reference time line. However it should not derogate from the extensive information available online to study Mandela in depth. There is so much more…. Source: […]
Taking Over Florida’s State Capitol | Racism in America
The Dream Defenders have taken over Florida Capitol to demand the #TrayvonMartinAct. Sign the petition here: http://bit.ly/fldreamdef By Melanie Nathan, July 18, 2013. Since Tuesday morning, July 16, 2013, Dream Defenders have maintained a presence at the Capitol for an extended stay to apply pressure and demand that Governor Rick Scott call for a special […]
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