where the west had huge investments in mining interests. to use that influence to free him and fight apartheid. that didn t happen. years passed. decades passed. an international movement sprung to boycott business, to di vest from them. to impose, to try to get governments to impose formal sanctions on that regime. it took hold here in the united states in the 1980s a. young student in los angeles asked his school s administration to stop investing in south african companies. that student s name was barak obama. free mandela became a popular rallying cry. not everyone in america was on board with freeing mandela and fighting the apartheid regime a. bill was introduced in congress. the anti-apartheid act of 19 necks would require the complete withdrawal.
introduced himself to the american people in 2004 in boston, young, dark hair, hopeful, optimistic, is completely different from the barak obama who sat, president barak obama who sat before chris matthews. that being said, he s still, if you go back to that 2004 key note address in boston, the same, you will hear the same barak obama who is president now. there is a consistency there. every president in a way seems to have greyer hair and thick thin i skin. the elizabeth warren wing is under attack. it is not from senate republicans. that s next. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms.