Trump is trying to use South Africa eggs as a warning tale

To hear President Trump and some of his closest supporters, South Africa is a terrible place for white people. They face discrimination, are marginalized from jobs and live under the constant threat of violence or the theft of their lands by a corrupt black -led government that left the country in a state of chaos.

Data tells a different story. Although white people make up 7 percent of the country’s population, they have at least half of the lands of South Africa. Police statistics do not show that they are more vulnerable to violent crime than others. And the African Southern African is better than black in each sign of economic scale.

However, Mr. Trump and his allies have They paid their own novel to South Africa To press an argument at home: If the United States does not cancel attempts to enhance diversity, America will become a hotbed of functional imbalance and anti -egg distinction.

“He plays in the fears of white people in America and other places:” We are threatened. “

However, Mr. de Birze added, the eggs have flourished since the end of the apartheid in 1994.

The similarities between South Africa’s attempts to retreat from the injustice from the apartheid and the long conflict in the United States to address slavery and the laws of Jim Crowe and other forms of racial discrimination have become a refusal between some of Trump supporters.

Ernst Rots, a white activist and author of South Africa, said that when he spoke to similar conservatives in thinking about the United States, they often told him, “Oh, yes, we need to look at South Africa, because this is what exists for us if we are not careful.”

After the apartheid decreased three decades ago, the South Africa’s democratic government rose to power with a promise to retreat from inequality in the regime of leaving many black majority in the country in Squalor. However, President Nelson Mandela largely allowed South Africa to preserve their wealth, in an attempt to maintain a peaceful transition to democracy.

His party, the African National Congress, issued laws to try to bridge the gap for black. Recently, South Africa has a single year that allows the government to take private lands in the public interest, and sometimes without compensation.

The law has not been used yet, but some South Africa-and Mr. Trump-says that it is not fairly targeting the country’s landowners and commercial farmers, who are often white despite decades of anti-apartheid policies.

Mr. Trump partially built his political identity White American protector. I have fought Save the Confederation symbols In the south, Exclusive racist sensitivity training As “non -American propaganda” and defended publicly Eggs.

Aid For most Africa, during the significance of the African ethnic minority in South Africa that led the apartheid government – this seems to be the latest clarification of Mr. Trump’s commitment to white interests.

Last month, the president signed an executive order granting refugees to the Afrikanis and suspending all aid to South Africa, in part in response to land reform law. He said on social media last week that the United States Providing a highway for citizenship For farmers in South Africa, many of them are African. Then on Friday, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio The name South African Ambassador to the United States, Ibrahim Rasol, “A politician with a taste of race that hates America” And expel him.

“Trump refers to white people everywhere that he will use his strength to protect and enhance their interests, regardless of the facts,” said Khalil Gibran Mohamed, a professor of US -African studies at Princeton University.

Some Africans welcomed Mr. Trump. Activists traveled to Washington last month to pressure his administration for more support. A White House official described the Afrikant’s delegation as “civil rights leaders.”

Several allies of Mr. Trump highlighted the Afrikan grief. Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa but not of African origin, accused the country’s government of promoting racist laws, and Falsely claim The white farmers in South Africa were killing every day.

After the appearance of Mr. Rotes on the Taker Carlson, Fox News in 2018, Mr. Carlson Posted on social media “White farmers are brutally killed in South Africa for their lands.”

Mr. Carlson later managed a slide describing land attacks and murders. Mr. Trump, who was in his first term at that time, then marked Mr. Carlson Social media publication He said he was ordering an investigation into agricultural attacks and “widespread murder for farmers” in South Africa, although no farms were seized by the government.

In the orbit of Mr. Trump, these topics are now recycled as warning signs of the United States.

Mr. Roots said in an interview that he became close to Jack Buswobic, the American follower who recently accompanied the Defense Minister Higseth Beit On a trip to Europe.

during Previous conversation with Charlie KerkTrump ally, influential, said Mr. Buswobic that South Africa was in a state of chaos due to its laws aimed at producing ethnic arrows. He added that the United States was heading to the same path by employing “on the basis of race, sex and sexual orientation.”

Many voters in South Africa, regardless of their race, agree that the African National Congress has created a country that suffers from corruption, poor infrastructure, high crimes and inequality, with the ongoing poverty between blacks. In the last elections, the party lost its explicit majority in Parliament for the first time since the end of the apartheid.

Analysts note that the party did their best to embrace the policies directed towards the market, which allowed the white South Africa to maintain their economic power. In fact, many South Africa criticizes Mr. Mandela for not needing more aggressive red distribution to the Black South Africa, whose families were forced to go out during the apartheid and colonialism.

Supporters of the new land law hope to speed up the long goal of returning more lands to South Africa.

But for Mr. Trump, the Africans are “victims of racial, non -fair discrimination,” he said in His executive order It occurred last month.

He descended primarily from the Dutch colonists who arrived in South Africa in 1652, and Afkanner became international ovens in the early twentieth century as a small tribe that stood before the great British Empire in the battles on lands (although they eventually lost war). Then the British ruling the Africans looked at the African as uncommon, and those battles planted bitter divisions between the largest number of white population in South Africa to this day.

While the president in general tried Refugees or asylum seekers are prohibited From entering the United States, he dug a special road for some white Africans to come to the country.

This did not necessarily line up with the desires of his target audience. Many Africans said that while Mr. Trump, who supports their claims to persecution, they prefer to stay in South Africa, which they consider their right home.

William Pitzer, an influential Internet from African, said on the Internet, which Trump supporters shared on social media, said he was considering the presentation of Mr. Trump. But he said he hoped more than anything that the South African government would end what he called its racism towards the people who resemble it.

Mr. Pittz, 28, said: “By the time I was a conscious person, the apartheid has long ended.” “All I knew is discrimination against eggs.”

This type of brand for Avrikan’s brand is a great resonance between the extremist American right.

“They are playing with something that is exposed to white Christian civilization,” he said. “This has a lot of gravity between evangelists and others in the United States.”

Zolan Kanno-Younds has contributed to Washington reports.