Trump worries more about South Africa's nonexistent genocide than real US racism - Opinion [View all]

Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Trump worries more about South Africa's nonexistent genocide than real US racism ǀ Opinion

James E. Causey, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sat, May 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM EDT 7 min read

Funny how the Trump Administration can spot racism nearly 8,000 miles away, but not the bigotry right under its nose.

It's outraged by genocide that doesn't exist in South Africa but ignores the descendants of people brought to America on slave ships, forced into free labor, and subjected to innumerable rapes, countless lynchings, and brutalization for more than two centuries.

You've probably seen video of President Donald Trump welcoming South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House May 21. The meeting quickly turned from courteous to contentious after Trump accused the South African government of seizing land from White landowners. Trump then played two video clips full of false claims about the genocide of farmers and handed out copies of news stories purporting to expose the truth.

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Despite Ramaphosa countering those false claims with facts, Trump insisted that when a White farmer is killed, little is done in response. The South African leader acknowledged that while criminal activity does occur in his country, most victims are Black. Additional fact checking has shown that images Trump presented of dead farmers are from Congo, not South Africa.

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