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The very people who facilitated the invasion of this country by millions of illegal migrants for the last four years are now crying foul over 59 persecuted white South Africans coming here as refugees at the invitation of President Trump.
The Episcopal Church, which parked itself on the southern border and received $50 million a year from the Biden administration for “refugee resettlement,” has refused to help the South Africans, citing its “steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation.”
Thousands of white farming families in South Africa have been robbed, raped, tortured and murdered in the most gruesome way as racial unrest escalates.
A South African farmer, most of whom are white, is three times more likely to be killed than a police officer, according to civil rights group AfriForum.
About 7% of South Africans are white, down from a peak of 22% early last century.
The government of ANC leader President Cyril Ramaphosa passed a law last year to confiscate their land without compensation.
And yet, according to Sean Rowe, the boss of the Episcopal Church, the South Africans are not worthy of refugee status, unlike the fake asylum-seekers and economic refugees his church has been showering with taxpayer money.
“It’s against what we stand for to help white refugees fleeing South Africa,” he declared in a self-damning statement.
“Our church has a long commitment to racial justice and reconciliation . . .
“We can’t be ourselves in the Episcopal Church and take this step of resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa.”
What is that but racism?
Elitist attitude
His attitude is of a piece with the condescending, elitist attitude of Washington, DC, Episcopal Bishop the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde when she beclowned herself at an interfaith service at Trump’s inauguration by lecturing the new president about migrants, who she described as “the people who pick our crops [and] wash the dishes.”
Democrats feel the same way, with Sen. Chris Van Hollen, who recently traveled to El Salvador to spring MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, saying the South Africans “do not need” asylum.
“This is the sick global apartheid policy being adopted by this lawless administration,” he tweeted by way of welcome to the handful of nervous mums and dads and small children waving American flags who arrived at Virginia’s Dulles International Airport on Monday.
Over on CNN, former Biden-Harris campaign staffer Ashley Allison went further, saying the white South Africans weren’t welcome in America and should go to their “native land” — Germany or Holland — instead.
She seems not to understand that Europeans settled South Africa over 300 years ago, almost a century before the US was founded.
Of course, Trump is being damned as a racist for refusing to turn a blind eye to the persecution of white South Africans.
But the idea that he offered asylum to the farmers just because they are white is belied by the skin color of the refugees and legal immigrants he allowed in during his first term.
Trump simply was horrified by a video in March showing radical politician Julius Marema leading a chant of “Kill the Boer” [white South Africans] at a rally in Cape Town.
At the time, his DOGE buddy, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, tweeted: “Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide . . . A whole arena chanting about killing white people.”
Musk also pointed out that under the racial quota system instituted by the Ramaphosa government, he is not allowed to set up Starlink in his homeland so that South Africans can more easily access the internet — because he is not black.
Trump has vowed to stop federal funding to South Africa and offer asylum to farming families.
Nearly 70,000 South Africans reportedly bombarded the US Embassy in Pretoria for information about the refugee scheme as soon as it was announced.
The refugees who arrived this week “have witnessed or experienced extreme violence with a racial nexus” such as murders, carjackings, and home invasions, according to a State Department memo.
Reparative justice
Many of those who arrived here on Monday weren’t even born when apartheid existed, but they are being subjected to vicious reparative justice.
The world celebrated its virtue when apartheid was dismantled in 1994, but now that a new apartheid is being instituted they turn their backs, much like Jews in Germany were treated in the 1930s, says Cape Town businessman Rob Hersov, a sixth-generation South African who calls himself a “capitalist activist” fighting to save his country from economic ruin.
“One by one, the left turned their back on the Jews,” he says.
“It’s happening the same way now in South Africa. There are 140 anti-white race-based laws, more than under apartheid. There are laws telling you who you can hire and who you can’t fire, what percentage of your business you have to give up — 30%. They are using democracy to institute socialism, and it’s horrific.”
He says the government plans to disarm the population.
“Every other week it’s something else, boiling us like a frog in a pot.”
When the ANC first took over at the end of apartheid, he says, the country thrived, with economic growth of 3% to 8% per year.
“It was a meritocracy with whites and blacks working well together.”
Then, in 2009, the corrupt and divisive Jacob Zuma took over the ANC and it’s been downhill ever since.
“We have the highest unemployment in the world . . . and are getting poorer every year. South African Airways has gone bankrupt, the railways don’t work, and no one goes to jail. On every metric, health, education, employment, we’ve gone backwards [while the government has] introduced anti-white racist laws and socialist doctrine.”
‘He hates woke and DEI’
Hersov applauds Trump for offering South African farmers asylum and is hopeful that American pressure will lead to reform inside his country.
“Donald Trump has highlighted to the world what has actually been happening in South Africa . . . He hates woke and DEI, and he sees South Africa as a country that is DEI in motion.”
Hersov hopes that legislation proposed by Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson and Michigan Rep. John James to sanction South Africa’s senior political leaders “will accelerate the fragmentation of the ANC” — and help push the country to better governance.
He points out that 88% of South Africans are Christians and conservatives, regardless of race, and he is confident that they will vote the radicals out if given a chance.
In the meantime, he won’t be joining the white exodus.
“I just love this country . . . For all its terror and horror and madness, it’s worth fighting for. I’m South African and I’m never going to leave. I’d rather be carried out in a box . . . It’s my country.”
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