Posted on Thursday, May 15, 2025

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by Shane Harris

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President Donald Trump is no stranger to inverting political paradigms, but this might be his most impressive display yet. Media pundits and elected Democrats who spent four years cheering on Joe Biden as he invited in more than 10 million unvetted illegal aliens are now apoplectic over the arrival of 59 refugees from South Africa fleeing political persecution.

Back in February, Trump signed an executive order recognizing one of the great civil rights crises of our time that the media has refused to cover: the ongoing physical and legal attacks on white farmers in South Africa. As the order notes, the Expropriation Act of 2024 enables “the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”

This law is just the latest escalation in the all-out war on the white minority in Africa’s largest economy. In 2023 alone, there were 49 murders and 296 attacks on white farmers.

The global media has claimed that these attacks have nothing to do with skin color, pointing out that some black farmers have also been killed. But the racial animus of the attacks is impossible to ignore, particularly amid the rising popularity of Julius Malema, a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist and member of the National Assembly.

Malema’s signature line is “kill the Boer” – a term for white farmers. He regularly draws crowds of 90,000 or more at rallies where he shouts the phrase, which liberal media outlets have claimed is an “anti-Apartheid song.” President Cyril Ramaphosa has done little to reduce the anti-white sentiment, even calling those fleeing the violence “cowards.”

In response to this clear racial discrimination and persecution, Trump’s order instituted a new policy ordering federal agencies to “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.” The first group of South Africans admitted under the order arrived at Dulles International Airport earlier this week.

The scene there just outside the nation’s capital was markedly different from the migrant arrivals that characterized the Biden administration. Instead of daily hordes of thousands of mostly single male migrants overwhelming border barriers, attacking law enforcement, and flooding into the country unvetted, 59 American flag-waving men, women, and children, mostly young families, were welcomed into the country after going through the proper immigration channels.

On the whole, the scene was everything that immigrating to the United States should be about – people embracing this country and its culture, coming here legally, and looking to build a better life for their family. But for Democrats and their media allies, there was one big, big problem: these refugees were white. The liberal reaction was swift and hysterical.

MSNBC political analyst Donna Edwards claimed it was “racist” to let in the South African refugees. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, who infamously flew to El Salvador to do a photo op with a deported MS-13 gang member, wrote on X that admitting the refugees was a “sick global apartheid policy.” One TikTok influencer appeared to call for the murder of the new arrivals. Former Obama official Rick Stengel called it “deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive” to admit them, even going so far as to smear the refugees as “racists who have repressed people.”

Ashley Allison, a top staffer on the Biden-Harris 2020 campaign, said the refugees should “go back to Germany.” That’s right – according to Allison, white Afrikaners just trying to farm peacefully don’t belong in South Africa after their ancestors immigrated there 400 years ago. Yet Allison would also tell you that any illegal alien who steps foot in the United States has an absolute right to be here forever, even if they commit heinous crimes.

Yes, Apartheid was evil. But the notion that its legacy justifies modern-day, state-sanctioned discrimination against white South Africans is as deranged as it is revealing. The left’s logic seems to be that because there was once racial injustice against black South Africans, the pendulum must now swing so far the other way that even murder and land theft are excusable – as long as the victims are white.

That isn’t justice. It’s revenge politics dressed up in the language of progressivism.

The Democrat-media complex, always eager to cosplay as moral arbiters, has once again exposed its moral bankruptcy. These are the same people who wept over caravans of unvetted migrants storming our border, some of whom turned out to be cartel members or worse. But 59 white, Christian families who fled government-sanctioned violence? To the liberal intelligentsia, they are colonial oppressors who must be turned away, lest their very existence disrupt the sacred racial hierarchy the left now worships.

In this warped worldview, you are not judged by the content of your character but by the color of your skin – and if you’re white, sympathy is off-limits. The left has traded in blind justice for racial math.

But thanks to Trump, the mask is slipping. The public is watching. And the hypocrisy is impossible to unsee.

Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.