'This is a white supremacist talking point': Anti-racism groups blast Trump's 'white farmers' tweet

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'This is a white supremacist talking point': Anti-racism groups blast Trump's 'white farmers' tweet
Matt Pearce

President Trump embraced a longtime white-nationalist talking point when he tweeted about alleged “large scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa, drawing praise Thursday from white nationalists and protests from anti-racism groups in the U.S.

“I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers,” Trump tweeted Wednesday night. Appearing to quote a Tucker Carlson segment on Fox News, Trump wrote the “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.”

South Africa’s government immediately protested Trump’s remark, writing on Twitter that “South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past.”

Read more at: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-white-farmers-20180823-story.html

I've never rejected the story, I'm not over there but I've wondered as to its veracity. It has sounded at times, a bit like stories we hear concocted or exaggerated. It's been brought up here before.