Newt Gingrich To Conservatives: ‘What Would You Have Done?’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates – The Atlantic

“When Gingrich compliments Mandela on his presidency he doesn’t do so within the context of alleged African pathologies, but within the context of countries throughout the world. It’s a textbook lesson in “How not to be racist,” which is to say it is a textbook lesson in how to talk about Nelson Mandela as though he were a human being.”