NPR Hosts American Communist Insurgent Who Denounced Nelson Mandela
Newsbusters • Jan 8, 2009Bill Ayers isn't the only communist insurgent who's greeted warmly by the national media. Tuesday's edition of National Public Radio's black-oriented talk show News & Notes carried an interview with Frank Wilderson, a rare American accepted into the armed insurgent wing of the African National Congress. The show's host, former Newsweek writer Farai Chideya, tried to assist Wilderson in explaining how Nelson Mandela looked like a sellout to the South African Communist Party. "We were insurgents for an ethical reorganization of civil society and political economy. And in this day and age it's too easy to mark that kind of activity… Full Story »
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