The liberal media have immersed themselves in analyzing the credibility of the evidence for the genocide of white South Africans, all while ignoring a central fact: Donald Trump called on the president of a country where racism is the norm to explain himself. That is precisely how the leader of a superpower, where racial equality is a foundational principle, should act.
President Donald Trump shows documents as he meets South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House in Washington, D.C. Photograph: Fox News
It is Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, who must explain what is happening in his country — a country people are fleeing, and where the leader of a parliamentary party, Julius Malema, openly justifies mass killings based on skin color.
The full quote of Malema's speech, igniting the genocide, is rarely shown.
Here it is:
Julius Malema: “You must never be scared to kill — a revolution demands that at some point there must be killing, because the killing is part of a revolutionary act. Shoot to kill, kill the Boer, the farmer, kill the Boer, the farmer.”
In his interview with TRT World, a Turkish public broadcaster, Malema denied the accusations in a manner that reveals a great deal:
Julius Malema: “I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I am saying to you, we've not called for the killing of white people — at least for now — I can't guarantee the future”.
Put it this way: he claims he can't be arrested because he denies calling for genocide — yet he openly affirms his fascist ideals to supporters and warns the Boers that his party makes no guarantees they won't be killed tonight, next year, or who knows when.
Allegations of fascism against Malema’s party on Wikipedia
How would you feel as a white person living in a country where 10% of the parliament is controlled by the man who shouts, “Shoot the white people”? How safe is such a country for a white person?
John Steenhuisen, a South-African white politician, commented — quote — “Malema's fascism” in 2023:
For far too long, people in government, the media, civil society and constitutional institutions refused to acknowledge Malema for the bloodthirsty tyrant and demagogue he really is. These people helped to normalise Malema’s hatred and racism.
He also accused the ruling party, led by Cyril Ramaphosa, the current president of South Africa, of its years-long failure to take action against their “one time protégé, even as brutal farm murders continue to escalate in the wake of Malema’s demagoguery”.
For more than a decade, the South African state has utterly failed to use appropriate internal remedies to stop Malema. Time after time institution after institution has turned a blind eye to his incitement.
All the more disturbing, then, is the silence of the American liberal media on this issue.
Liberals are so eager to prove that Trump is wrong about everything that they don’t even mind whitewashing modern-day fascists — thereby revealing that, for them, the fight for racial equality is merely a tool for manipulating the American voter.