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TRUMP ACCUSED OF ‘MOST BLATANT SHOW OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN AMERICA
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Matt Laslo, Martin Pengelly
May 27, 2025
Raw Story
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_ “It is a slap in the face to every African American and every
person in this country who believes in the rule of law,” added Rep.
Frederica Wilson (D-FL). _

U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at the White House, following his
attendance at ceremonies in commemoration of the Memorial Day holiday,
in Washington, D.C. U.S., May 26, 2025., REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

 

WASHINGTON – Veteran members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC)
say the Trump [[link removed]] administration
has moved from offensive to straight racist with its decision to
welcome white South Africans as refugees.

Amid continuing controversy over President Donald Trump’s crackdown
on immigration by people of color, one senior Black House Democrat
lamented “the most blatant show of white supremacy in America in the
history of the world.”

“It is a slap in the face to every African American and every person
in this country who believes in the rule of law,” added Rep.
Frederica Wilson (D-FL), ahead of Congress’ Memorial Day recess.

Afrikaners are the descendants of Dutch colonists who underpinned
South Africa’s racist apartheid regime until 1994, when the African
National Congress leader Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in prison
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became his country’s first Black president.

Now, the Trump administration claims Afrikaner farmers are the victims
of government-sponsored genocide — claims Trump spewed live on TV
last week in a widely decried Oval Office meeting
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with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Trump’s conspiratorial claims were rejected by Ramaphosa — and
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A picture Trump claimed
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showed farmers being buried was from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
An image Trump claimed showed “burial sites” of “over a thousand
of white farmers” showed a memorial to one murdered couple.

One experienced observer, Dorothy Byrnes, a former head of news for
the British TV network Channel 4, went viral when she told radio
station LBC [[link removed]]: “There is
no genocide against Afrikaners, that was absolute drivel.”

Byrnes added: “Overwhelmingly, and this is covered, and I have
covered it myself, the big problem of violence in South Africa
inordinately affects Black people. South Africa has a terrible problem
with violent crime, and the chief victims are Black people.”

Regardless, Trump plowed ahead.

“We're deporting thousands of people, and he's bringing in white
Afrikaners who he says he's gonna uplift, get health insurance, get
found jobs, resettle and housing,” Wilson said.

“I mean, what an insult, right? And also the foundation for his
conspiracy theories, saying that there's this genocide happening, that
is insane and none of it is true.

“I think that the way that he acted when the president of South
Africa came, to try to embarrass … one of our African countries’
heads of state, was just an insult.”

Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver (D-MO), a minister and former CBC chair, called
Trump’s meeting with Ramaphosa “embarrassing.”

“He was set up,” Cleaver said of Ramaphosa, who followed Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky in enduring a White House harangue
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“You know, in some ways we should have known [Trump was] gonna do
that when he met with African leaders,” Cleaver said.

“He's divisive in his spirit. And so I guess he can't help himself.
I wonder who was orchestrating that stuff. Is it him, or is it Elon
Musk?”

Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX mogul, is a Trump donor and adviser and
attended the Ramaphosa meeting. A U.S. citizen, Musk was born in South
Africa and has advanced claims
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of genocide against Afrikaners.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had time for only a short word,
as she rushed to a vote.

Trump’s Afrikaner policy was “Elon weirdo stuff,” the
progressive phenom told Raw Story [[link removed]].

‘Stephen Miller probably came up with this’

On the other side of the Capitol, Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT) told Raw
Story Trump’s policy was simply another instance of his “burning
our alliances, eroding if not totally compromising trust.”

“As long as he's on top, he’s the bully,” Welch said.

The Afrikaner policy is an example of Trump “changing inherent
policies to pick who's going to vote for him,” said Sen. Ben Ray
Luján (D-NM.) “Rather than looking at policy, fixing the broken
immigration policy and then let us all work towards finding these
solutions and working together.”

Luján also said “the initial reaction and response that I've heard
from constituents and from colleagues is a negative one. It just feels
very overt. It's not a surprise coming from this administration but I
would argue it's intentional. Stephen Miller probably came up with
this.”

 

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Miller. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura

Miller is an immigration ultra-hardliner and one of Trump’s closest
advisers.

Earlier this month, Miller told reporters
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South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program
was created. This is persecution based on a protected characteristic,
in this case, race. This is race-based persecution.”

Miller claimed “a whole series of government policies specifically
targets farmers and the white population in South Africa”, including
“land expropriation.”

He added: “You even see government leaders chanting racial epithets
and espousing racial violence.”

Miller said such policies and threats were “all very well
documented.”

Experts disagree.

“The politicians quoted [as espousing racial violence] were not ANC
politicians, one of them was a man who’d been specifically thrown
out of the ANC and the other was an opponent of the ANC,” said
Byrnes, the British expert.

The first 59 Afrikaner refugees arrived in the U.S.
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in mid-May. Before that, Miller predicted “a much larger-scale
relocation effort, and so those numbers are going to increase.

“It takes a little while to set up a system and processes and
procedures to begin a new refugee flow,” Miller said. “But we
expect that the pace will increase.”

‘Against the ideals of our nation’

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) has emerged as a leading Democratic voice
against Trump, notably through a record-breaking Senate speech
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in April, when he spent 25 hours highlighting Trump’s threat to the
Constitution.

Speaking to Raw Story, Booker said the Afrikaner refugee policy was a
dereliction of moral duty.

“Why, at a time of ungodly ethnic cleansing, like in places like
Darfur and Sudan, are we not allowing in people that are escaping
legitimate threats?” Booker asked. “Why are we making it harder
for them to get in?

“So this is, to me, unconscionable. It's against the larger ideals
of our nation. It's morally unacceptable.”

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Matt Laslo has covered Congress since 2006, bringing Raw Story readers
the personalities behind the politics and policy straight from Capitol
Hill. Based in Washington, D.C., Matt has been a long-time contributor
to NPR, WIRED, VICE News, The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone, and Playboy.

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