While I wholeheartedly agree that it's frustrating that people don't know the difference, posting a memorial for someone shouldn't be about seeking attention. The fact that people were trying to show their support for the cause is still admirable, even if they don't have the details right (to be fair, I saw at least two organizations post the wrong picture so if they just copy/pasted the link this error isn't the poster's fault).

If you donate to charity you should be humble anyways, not expect to be flooded with attention. People are idiots on Facebook anyways.

In class, our teacher brought Nelson Mandela's death, and what a shame it was, when this moron kid brings up Paul Walker's death and how it was soooo much more important, than "nelsblahblahblah whatever" never did anything important and so on and on! The majority started sighing but alot of people still agreed. Like, wow :o

At least people on your newsfeed are acknowledging Mandela. I had plenty more "RIP Paul Walker" posts than Mandela posts. Made me lose a bit of faith in society.

maybe do some research on him. yes he did a lot of good, but he also did some pretty awful things as well.

pretentious douche

South African Communist-terrorist leader and former president Nelson Mandela has just died at age 95. He was a long time terrorist and activist for the political beliefs that he outlined in his book "How to be a Good Communist." One of the more infamous methods of terror used by his thugs in the African National Congress (ANC) and the UDF was a practice known as "necklacing." In this barbaric method Mandela's thugs would tie someone's hands with barbed wire, beat them, and then throw a tire around their neck. The tire would be soaked in gasoline and set afire, causing a slow, excruciating death as the melting rubber would be burnt into the body of the victim who was being burnt alive. Mandela's wife Winnie said in 1986 that ''with our necklaces and our boxes of matches we will liberate this country." Mandela and his wife were treated as heroes and celebrities for decades by the liberal American press. He did a 25 year stint in prison for terrorism but was released due to international pressure, especially from the U.S. His treatment in prison was much more humane than the treatment received by political prisoners in the gulags run by his good friends Fidel Castro of Cuba and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya. He publicly defended Gaddafi on more than one occasion, even after Gaddafi's terrorist "Lockerbie" bombing of a civilian airliner that killed many Americans. He looked very favorably upon the Soviet Union, whom he called a "standard bearer." Fortunately for the world the Soviet Union was gone by the time Mandela took power. Despite his praise for the Soviets, Communist Cuba, and Gaddafi he did find time to criticize the United States even as it bent over backwards to help him. Undoubtedly the press is going to laud Madela as a great hero, but he was no champion for liberty. He was a communist terrorist and should be remembered as such.

It's a bit pretentious of you to make an assumption that only "middle class" people didn't know who Nelson Mandela was. It's not in my generation either but I know who he is and what he did for his people. Quit being a snob. It's nice that you donated but you shouldn't expect gratification for it.

RIP Paul Walker

This FML sounds pretty pretentious, OP.