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William769

(58,830 posts)
Tue May 27, 2025, 12:02 PM Tuesday

Trump accused of 'most blatant show of white supremacy in America in history'

WASHINGTON – Veteran members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) say the Trump 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, became his country’s first Black president.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-accused-of-most-blatant-show-of-white-supremacy-in-america-in-history/ar-AA1FyHe5?ocid=msedgntp&pc=ENTPHB&cvid=e85ac105c217495e9c71adb6a33d319d&ei=12

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Trump accused of 'most blatant show of white supremacy in America in history' (Original Post) William769 Tuesday OP
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Tuesday #1
Thank you malaise William769 Tuesday #2
Good to see you here and murielm99 Tuesday #10
I 3auld6phart Tuesday #14
You're welcome malaise Tuesday #15
William, I've been worried about you! choie Tuesday #17
So many white men in this country are terrified of being in the minority. Walleye Tuesday #3
they are COWARDS Skittles Wednesday #53
Most blatant in history has some competition Easterncedar Tuesday #4
President Woodrow Wilson was a virulent racist. generalbetrayus Tuesday #5
Learn something new every day. calimary Tuesday #18
Woah electric_blue68 Tuesday #45
"cool" Calvin coolidge would give him a run for the money... Javaman Wednesday #54
True. And eugenics was the big thing back then, too. generalbetrayus Wednesday #57
kick Passages Tuesday #6
Correct and he is not even trying to hide it. sheshe2 Tuesday #7
Absolutely blatent white supremacy. Buddyzbuddy Tuesday #8
WIF XCSki Tuesday #16
I like it. Buddyzbuddy Tuesday #37
Interesting pov. Hmmm electric_blue68 Tuesday #46
Sick sick sick MuseRider Tuesday #9
The majority of white women Keepthesoulalive Tuesday #11
Really? MuseRider Tuesday #24
People don't always express things verbally Keepthesoulalive Tuesday #27
They aren't going to say it out loud Iris Tuesday #38
Yeah, it was something like 53% for drumphf 😑 and 47% for Harris... electric_blue68 Tuesday #47
It is clear as day dalton99a Tuesday #12
Great to see you here! Hope you are well. question everything Tuesday #13
Sorry dudes, but he's never not been completely blatant. ananda Tuesday #19
True, but our media has glossed over most of the worst shit he's pulled...nt Wounded Bear Tuesday #21
And still are. ananda Tuesday #23
Oh yes, I'll never forget Charlottesville! ShazzieB Wednesday #58
Totally agree. ananda Wednesday #59
Bill! mcar Tuesday #20
I am doing better mcar William769 Tuesday #33
Very good to hear! electric_blue68 Tuesday #48
Trump fully intended it as a slap in the face to every African American person in this country, and to every POC sop Tuesday #22
He's certainly not hiding his bigotry. greatauntoftriplets Tuesday #25
Doing better greatauntoftriplets William769 Tuesday #34
I understand. greatauntoftriplets Tuesday #36
The anti-DEI hiring will make companies shy from minority hiring too. bucolic_frolic Tuesday #26
This message was self-deleted by its author LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #28
trump is a motivational speaker for racists LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #29
Oh, such gallows humor. Truth! 😔 electric_blue68 Tuesday #49
Not all Trump voters are racists....... 70sEraVet Wednesday #55
I don't get it k_buddy762 Tuesday #30
Collective stereotyping at play there. Aussie105 Wednesday #51
I also worked with South Africans Tharp fled 20 years ago. Melon Wednesday #52
Good on the CBC Speaking Out Against Cha Tuesday #31
I'm sorry, the most blatant in history? returnee Tuesday #32
Absolutely true. Martin68 Tuesday #35
Here I am watching the 38 year old Frenchman Gael Monfils malaise Tuesday #39
K&R UTUSN Tuesday #40
Happy to see you here - TBF Tuesday #41
Well that's his base. And his base are racist assholes. Initech Tuesday #42
Maga assholes are all racists LetMyPeopleVote Tuesday #43
You're back! Been thinking of you. Now I'll go read your pist electric_blue68 Tuesday #44
You're back!!!!! blm Tuesday #50
K&R and Bill! uppityperson Wednesday #56

3auld6phart

(1,545 posts)
14. I
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:45 PM
Tuesday

Just do not understand this hatedred of o non whites… …These clowns really do show their stupidity. By voting for the totall assholes theycomtiuely elect to lead them, the orange buffoon, **pukes and other maggots.That really shows who the idiots are…. Bastards are out to destroy the USAormake it irrelevant.. m

Walleye

(40,690 posts)
3. So many white men in this country are terrified of being in the minority.
Tue May 27, 2025, 12:13 PM
Tuesday

I can’t understand it, women have the majority of the population, but we still get shit on. As a white person, I was looking forward to being in a minority. And we need to stop calling Trump’s brutal racism as “a crack down on immigration”, so tired of the news media.

Easterncedar

(4,432 posts)
4. Most blatant in history has some competition
Tue May 27, 2025, 12:20 PM
Tuesday

But most of it is from the last 100 days. My parents would have been devastated to see all their work for civil rights so undone

generalbetrayus

(934 posts)
5. President Woodrow Wilson was a virulent racist.
Tue May 27, 2025, 12:38 PM
Tuesday

"While Wilson's tenure is often noted for progressive achievement, his time in office was one of unprecedented regression in racial equality, with his presidency serving as the lowest point of the nadir of American race relations.[1]"

"As Wilson named white supremacists to the highest levels of his administration, African Americans were appointed in record low numbers."

"Upon taking office, Wilson fired all but two of the seventeen black supervisors in the federal bureaucracy appointed by Taft.[48][49] Wilson flatly refused to even consider African Americans for appointments in the South."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_and_race#:~:text=Upon%20taking%20office%2C%20Wilson%20fired,for%20appointments%20in%20the%20South.

Javaman

(63,899 posts)
54. "cool" Calvin coolidge would give him a run for the money...
Wed May 28, 2025, 07:40 AM
Wednesday

remember, he allowed the kkk to march in Washington.

they were all fucks back then

seems the orange ignoramus is reviving that shit.

Buddyzbuddy

(903 posts)
8. Absolutely blatent white supremacy.
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:16 PM
Tuesday

I actually have an issue with the term
white supremacy, because it's a lie perpetrated by those that see it as a compliment.

What term is the equivalent for any minority?

Everytime we use the term it's reinforcing what they believe.
We need a different term.

MuseRider

(34,677 posts)
9. Sick sick sick
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:16 PM
Tuesday

This is perhaps one of the hardest things to understand, at least for me and most if not all here. WTF is this all about? None of it has ever made any sense at all. What will they do when only white men remain? Will they keep some of us for their purposes? Women, people of color, LGBTQ ?

Having done a lot of work in my state on several these issues I still have no clue how to stop this.

Keepthesoulalive

(1,349 posts)
11. The majority of white women
Tue May 27, 2025, 01:33 PM
Tuesday

Will have to stop voting against the best interests of their daughters and stand for everyone’s interests. They would rather vote for a rapist than vote for a biracial woman.

MuseRider

(34,677 posts)
24. Really?
Tue May 27, 2025, 02:57 PM
Tuesday

I guess I should look at numbers closer than I do because I have never heard woman express that they would rather vote for rapist than a biracial woman. I am not saying this is not true but I have never seen or heard that. Are we talking the deeply hogtied by Jesus and their husbands?

Keepthesoulalive

(1,349 posts)
27. People don't always express things verbally
Tue May 27, 2025, 03:18 PM
Tuesday

Mainly things that are socially unacceptable. But in the voting booth the majority of white women voted for orange felon.

ananda

(31,872 posts)
19. Sorry dudes, but he's never not been completely blatant.
Tue May 27, 2025, 02:40 PM
Tuesday

Remember Charlottesville?

And countless, continuous allusions to Hitler,
wearing black and gold during the campaign,
ad infinitum.

ShazzieB

(20,759 posts)
58. Oh yes, I'll never forget Charlottesville!
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:32 PM
Wednesday

Or what he said afterwards: "There were very fine people on both sides."

But while he has never hidden his racism, I do feel that this stunt with the white South Africans is a new level of in-your-face blatancy. This isn't just more of his usual bigotry; he's going out of his way to do a special favor for a particular group of white people who used to be the ruling class in their majority black country. Giving white Afrikaners "refugee" status isn't just more of the same old, same old, imo. It's white favoritism taken to a whole new level, and it's extra, extra gross.

ananda

(31,872 posts)
59. Totally agree.
Wed May 28, 2025, 03:57 PM
Wednesday

I just hate the way rightwing media frames the out and out
racist and hate talk that has been going on since before
2016.

mcar

(44,673 posts)
20. Bill!
Tue May 27, 2025, 02:40 PM
Tuesday
so glad to see you back. I hope you are doing well.

There is no bottom with Trump and his Nazi cronies. None.

sop

(14,427 posts)
22. Trump fully intended it as a slap in the face to every African American person in this country, and to every POC
Tue May 27, 2025, 02:45 PM
Tuesday

who wants to come to America to escape real oppression. Why else would white supremacist Trump do it?

William769

(58,830 posts)
34. Doing better greatauntoftriplets
Tue May 27, 2025, 04:44 PM
Tuesday

I owe you so many explanations but as I got sicker it got harder to write or explain anything. I promise, you'll get the whole story.

Bill

greatauntoftriplets

(177,700 posts)
36. I understand.
Tue May 27, 2025, 04:53 PM
Tuesday

Last I knew, you were heading to the doctor's office so it's clear that a lot has happened in the past few months. Sounds like you've been through a lot, and I'm so sorry about that.

bucolic_frolic

(50,580 posts)
26. The anti-DEI hiring will make companies shy from minority hiring too.
Tue May 27, 2025, 03:09 PM
Tuesday

That's as racist as can be.

Response to William769 (Original post)

70sEraVet

(4,541 posts)
55. Not all Trump voters are racists.......
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:15 AM
Wednesday

Some are homophobes, trans-phobes, misogynists, people who hate left-handed folks, etc.
Hatred and resentment is the MAGA glue.

k_buddy762

(324 posts)
30. I don't get it
Tue May 27, 2025, 04:14 PM
Tuesday

whites can't be refugees?

I'm asking a serious question, not trying to troll. A friend of mine and his family fled South Africa 20+ years ago after they were run out of their home. That's all I have to go on except corporate media, which I ignore wholesale. I don't use social media go I guess I can't see the "boots on the ground" perspectives that its supposed to be able to show.

Can someone educate me please?

Aussie105

(7,032 posts)
51. Collective stereotyping at play there.
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:08 AM
Wednesday

Most people learnt about the practices of South African Apartheid right at the end of it, when it was all violently overturned.
The POC rose up against their white colonial overlords, and rightly so.

Now any white person from South Africa is assumed to be a racist Boer.

Personally, I'd like to know the background of these refugees.
Why are they leaving South Africa?

Melon

(343 posts)
52. I also worked with South Africans Tharp fled 20 years ago.
Wed May 28, 2025, 01:30 AM
Wednesday

They literally left everything to leave in what they described as a very violent place. It’s a falsehood to believe all whites there are rich.

53 came here out of 8000+ refugees this year. Nothing really in the big picture. Why can whites not be living in fear in other countries?

Cha

(311,284 posts)
31. Good on the CBC Speaking Out Against
Tue May 27, 2025, 04:32 PM
Tuesday

Mump Welcoming the South African Refugees with "health care and housing".

And, shoving "Fake Photos around of Fake graves of white farmers."

No Kings Hands Off! 💙🌈

Mahalo, William..

returnee

(548 posts)
32. I'm sorry, the most blatant in history?
Tue May 27, 2025, 04:33 PM
Tuesday

Not to pick nits, but what about hundreds of years of slavery and the genocide of Native Americans. Just for example.
The S. African refugee issue is perhaps the most recent and blatant such example, and it’s surely a heinous level of racial hypocrisy. But the worst in history?

malaise

(284,545 posts)
39. Here I am watching the 38 year old Frenchman Gael Monfils
Tue May 27, 2025, 05:46 PM
Tuesday

come back from two sets down to be leading 3-0 in the 5th set at the French Open.
And what do this huge crowd of mostly white French folks do?
They sing a verse of their national anthem for a beloved Afro-French man. Their joy is infectious. There is still Hope on our planet.

Lots of us are not going back.
Fuck the racists.

TBF

(35,120 posts)
41. Happy to see you here -
Tue May 27, 2025, 07:05 PM
Tuesday

I am not on this forum as much currently (more on bluesky), but I did catch the post where you let us know you were in the hospital. Hope you are comfortable and on the mend.

And, yes, Trump is still being Trump. Racism seems to be one of his fixations during this term.

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