Quote Originally Posted by KingJaja View Post
Imagine how the Poles would feel if the US sat on the fence during "Solidarity" - now that's how Africans feel about US conduct during most of Apartheid.
Plenty of US institutions weren’t fence-sitters. There’s a real question as to whether divestment had any practical effect on the eventual end of Apartheid, but that’s a different story. Campuses, corporations, and city governments were doing diplomacy that it took the Federal Government years to catch up with.