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

[William769]

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

[malaise]

1. Get thee to the greatest page

The absolute truth
Rec rec rec

[William769]

2. Thank you malaise

[murielm99]

10. Good to see you here and

I hope you are well.

[3auld6phart]

14. I

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

[malaise]

15. You're welcome

You care more than many who are in much better health.

[choie]

17. William, I've been worried about you!

So glad to see a post from you!

[Walleye]

3. So many white men in this country are terrified of being in the minority.

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.

[Skittles]

53. they are COWARDS

*REAL* men are not afraid of women or POC - THEY STAND *WITH* US

[Easterncedar]

4. Most blatant in history has some competition

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]

5. President Woodrow Wilson was a virulent racist.

"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.

[calimary]

18. Learn something new every day.

[electric_blue68]

45. Woah

[Javaman]

54. "cool" Calvin coolidge would give him a run for the money...

remember, he allowed the kkk to march in Washington.

they were all fucks back then

seems the orange ignoramus is reviving that shit.

[generalbetrayus]

57. True. And eugenics was the big thing back then, too.

[Passages]

6. kick

[sheshe2]

7. Correct and he is not even trying to hide it.

[Buddyzbuddy]

8. Absolutely blatent white supremacy.

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.

[XCSki]

16. WIF

How about white inferiority complex (WIF)?

[Buddyzbuddy]

37. I like it.

[electric_blue68]

46. Interesting pov. Hmmm

[MuseRider]

9. Sick sick sick

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]

11. The majority of white women

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]

24. Really?

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]

27. People don't always express things verbally

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

[Iris]

38. They aren't going to say it out loud

[electric_blue68]

47. Yeah, it was something like 53% for drumphf 😑 and 47% for Harris...

[dalton99a]

12. It is clear as day

[question everything]

13. Great to see you here! Hope you are well.

[ananda]

19. Sorry dudes, but he's never not been completely blatant.

Remember Charlottesville?

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

[Wounded Bear]

21. True, but our media has glossed over most of the worst shit he's pulled...nt

[ananda]

23. And still are.

...

[ShazzieB]

58. Oh yes, I'll never forget Charlottesville!

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]

59. Totally agree.

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]

20. Bill!

so glad to see you back. I hope you are doing well.

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

[William769]

33. I am doing better mcar

[electric_blue68]

48. Very good to hear!

[sop]

22. Trump fully intended it as a slap in the face to every African American person in this country, and to every POC

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

[greatauntoftriplets]

25. He's certainly not hiding his bigotry.

How are you doing?

[William769]

34. Doing better greatauntoftriplets

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]

36. I understand.

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.

[herding cats]

60. Omg! I just happy cried!!

I'm so very happy you're a) alive and b) doing better!! I logged on today and as I always do when I'm here I searched to see if you had posted. This time you had! Happy days!

My heart to you old friend! FWIW, you definitely do not have to explain anything to me, I'm just thrilled you're still alive and fighting.

[bucolic_frolic]

26. The anti-DEI hiring will make companies shy from minority hiring too.

That's as racist as can be.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. trump is a motivational speaker for racists

trump's base are all racist assholes

[electric_blue68]

49. Oh, such gallows humor. Truth! 😔

[70sEraVet]

55. Not all Trump voters are racists.......

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

[k_buddy762]

30. I don't get it

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]

51. Collective stereotyping at play there.

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]

52. I also worked with South Africans Tharp fled 20 years ago.

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]

31. Good on the CBC Speaking Out Against

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]

32. I'm sorry, the most blatant in history?

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?

[Martin68]

35. Absolutely true.

[malaise]

39. Here I am watching the 38 year old Frenchman Gael Monfils

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.

[UTUSN]

40. K&R

[TBF]

41. Happy to see you here -

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.

[Initech]

42. Well that's his base. And his base are racist assholes.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

43. Maga assholes are all racists

[electric_blue68]

44. You're back! Been thinking of you. Now I'll go read your pist

[blm]

50. You're back!!!!!

😘😁

[uppityperson]

56. K&R and Bill!