By Rob Kall

I collect heroes. Not action figures, not baseball cards, no, I ask people who their heroes are. As a campaign consultant who specializes in helping candidates to identify the stories, narratives and parts of their lives that define WHO they are, WHAT they stand for and HOW they have reacted to challenges, difficulties and opportunities in their lives, one of my standard questions is, “Who are your heroes, living and dead?”-

Once we get past the listing of parents and relatives, Nobel Prize winner, Nelson Mandela is, by far, the first on peoples’ lists. I’m talking about the first on American’s lists.

So it comes as somewhat of a surprise to discover that Mandela is on U.S. terrorist watch lists. USA Today reports,

“Nelson Mandela is flagged on U.S. terrorist watch lists and needs special permission to visit the USA. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls the situation “embarrassing,” and some members of Congress vow to fix it.

The requirement applies to former South African leader Mandela and other members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC), the once-banned anti-Apartheid organization. In the 1970s and ’80s, the ANC was officially designated a terrorist group by the country’s ruling white minority. Other countries, including the United States, followed suit.

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