'A Total Ignorance of Reality.' Mandela's Grandson Slams 'Arrogant' Trump Over South Africa Tweet
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'A Total Ignorance of Reality.' Mandela's Grandson Slams 'Arrogant' Trump Over South Africa Tweet
Billy Perrigo, Time 16 hours ago 
Nelson Mandela ‘s grandson slammed President Donald Trump as “ignorant” and “arrogant” on Thursday, following a tweet where the President implied opposition to a controversial land reform program in South Africa.
Trump said late Wednesday evening that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to examine “farm seizures” and “the large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa, echoing a report on Fox News earlier that night that tapped into a common and inaccurate narrative on the far-right that white South African farmers were facing a “genocide.”
“President Donald Trump’s unfortunate tweet shows disrespect for South Africa’s sovereignty and our commitment to justice and redress,” said Nkozi Mandela, a member of the Pan African Parliament, in a statement. “Trump once again demonstrates a total ignorance of reality. We will not be dictated to, threatened or pressured into accepting a land deal that perpetuates the injustices of the past.”
Trump, Mandela said, would “be better served by dealing with his own domestic challenges and the fundamental issues that the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign raises.”
Trump’s tweet referred to the South African government’s plans to change the law to allow the state to seize land from farmers, in an attempt to redress inequality that persists despite more than two decades having elapsed since the end of Apartheid, during which black people were discriminated against in all walks of South African life.
The new policy, Mandela said, is part of an attempt to “find a lasting and just solution and we will bring an end to land poverty just as we brought a peaceful end to apartheid.” He continued, “the issue of the return on the land is an extremely sensitive issue as our people were robbed of the land over three centuries of colonial land grabs and six decades of apartheid.”
In a statement, the South African government said it “totally rejects [Trump’s] narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past.”
State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert said Thursday at a press briefing that Pompeo had discussed it with Trump and would “take a look” into the issue of land seizures in South Africa.
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Enjoy the read(s). By saying "killing white farmers", Mr. Trump was referring to the fact that taking away their land would, metaphorically, kill their lifestyle...........
As far as him not knowing and the GovCo of South Africa saying "he doesn't understand", I think he understands FULLY what they are doing but they don't care how it looks to anyone but themselves. I guess in the reality of things, our, as a nation, opinion really doesn't matter as they feel they are doing what's best yet, to the civilized world it looks rather nefarious. I don't know why they are so shocked someone, somewhere in the world would find it a bit on the redistribution side of "huh". In one of the articles I reference, they warn their own that the moves they are making will, inevitably, put them on the same path as neighboring Zimbabwe.
Please...trump isn't deep enough to think or remark that "killing white farmers" is an euphemism for taking away their land.
I don't agree with the violence, but South Africa has a horrible history of discrimination against the black population. The Dutch and the English settled South Africa and took the land from the natives and then exerted their will over the native population. Sound like another country we all know and love?
The orange baby-man needs to mind his own business and focus on the United States. He doesn't an inkling of the politics or the history of South Africa so he would be wise to just his fool mouth
Did you say the same when Mr. Obama drew his red crayon line with Syria?..........................Rhetorical..................
I think we know the answer. Hypocrisy is strong on the left.
So we see who supports expropriating land on the basis of race.
You bet I do
cool. It's always best when those who support explicitly racist policies identify themselves to others.
I don't see it as racist when the white farmers own 70 some % of the land and they are only 4 % of the population. There's a disparity there. It doesn't belong to them. They took it from the natives
And I would be very careful in who I call a racist, Sean
You may want to look up who was living on the land when the Dutch showed up. The Bantu in the area now came from the north after.
I didn't call anyone a racist. I called the policy you embrace racist.
A policy that takes land from people on the basis of race, and race alone, is the textbook definition of a racist policy.
Kinda like when the Europeans took the land from the Native Americans? Do you call that a racist policy?
And? The Anglo Saxons displaced the Picts and the Britons of the British Isles. What's your point?
Were the Aztecs citizens of Spain when the Spanish took their land?
The apt comparison is between your favored racist policy and the racist Jim Crow laws of the south. The government, that purports to represent all South Africans, is discriminating against it's citizens solely on the basis of race.
The point was it wasn't the Bantu land originally either. Matter of fact the regions settled pretty much had no one on it because they couldn't use it until the Dutch brought the technology with them that allowed them to dig wells and irrigate.
If you are going to dismiss the Bantu immigrating there as just normal immigration then the Dutch immigrating there is normal as well.
Regardless. Land was conquered and stolen in the past. It was filled by immigrants from other areas and demographics changed as well.
It really seems like you are implying if a minority holds more than their "fair share" it is ok to strip them of that property or power?
Mad I said. It's going to happen. This is just the beginning. You support it. Ill laugh when millions start starving to death like Zimbabwe. Hopefully no one gives them aid either. It's time to stop subsidizing shit holes that can't do anything other than kill each other. Maybe one day Africa will progress without needing Europeans to do it for them
Maybe Africa would have been just fine if the Europeans had left it alone to begin with
Lol. Nah. You ever heard of a lost tribe coming out of the woodwork down there that advanced past the Stone Age?
The only thing sustaining them is first world charity. But yea.. I'm sure they wouldn't be raping virgins to cure aids and hacking each other to death if it hadn't been for Europeans even though that's what they were doing before the Dutch arrived and still do lol. The only places worth a damn in Africa are the ones where Europeans settled. When they go so will the last bastions of advancement.
I never would have thought you had that kind of attitude.
Disappointing
Well after a while people get tired of hearing that they are the reason things suck everywhere.
" It ain't that poor guys fault he is murdering people!! If Europeans hadn't arrived and stopped them from slaughtering each other they would be world leaders by now!"
After a while you realize where the real problems are. Africa is a shit hole and always has been and always will be.
Why is that? Look at it this way. You are fine saying it's Europeans fault... I say it's Africas fault. All across the world most countries have evolved into somewhat of a society advancing. Japan, Spain, US, hell even Middle East progressed somewhat. Africa still chopping each other up with machetes and raping women to cure aids. Killing albinos for magic bones, etc. If Africa isn't a shit hole maybe you can fly to Somalia and walk around for a while and let me know how that works out for you. Like that couple that tried to bike through isisi controlled territory to show how evil is rare in the world.
Can you name any European based countries that are close to how messed up Africa as a whole is?
Lol. Whose a victim and why?
Why is it that Africa has some of the largest precious mineral and other natural deposits in the world and the majority of the population still live in mud huts and pick bugs out of each others heads.?
They are the victims of what?
Typical .. make a statement and can't elaborate on it. Again. Whose a victim?
Bottom line is this. Had Obama conducted himself for one week of his presidency in the same manner as the Trump conducts himself week after week, Obama would still be in Ft. Leavenworth serving his sentence.
As far as the Trump South Africa comment. Trump saw something on FOX and ran with it. He doesn't read. Doesn't study anything. If afflicted with 'rot gut.' And believes himself pure, invincible and is more deserving then all others. Just what he is. His greatest hits will be the 'Lock Her Up' chants from the adorating adorers.
The Trump is the Trump. On an island of one. The man is truly alone. His closest friends aren't and never were. This man is truly alone. His sustenance is power and the protection it can assure.
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