Al Sharpton disapproves of South African refugees fleeing black violence
May 12, 2025 | Kevin Haggerty
Race-baiting and status-conflating found Rev. Al Sharpton leaving out key details as he griped about the kind of violence that South African refugees were fleeing.
Blending feigned and genuine ignorance, Democrat politicians and their complicit corporate media talking heads have blustered over the word “illegal” when describing foreign nationals who’ve entered the United States illegally. Amid the defense of gang-affiliated illegals, Sharpton attempted to frame an argument built on race over granting refugee status to white Afrikaners while neglecting to mention the racial discrimination they were experiencing.
During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” the career activist attempted to draw a comparison between the slated arrival of South African refugees with the latest leftist protest against mass deportations that resulted in Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) being arrested for trespassing at an ICE detention center.
“The problem here is that you’re talking about the mayor of a city where people are being held without due process, in many cases. So he has the right to say, wait a minute, I want to know what’s going on here — why are people being held without due process,” contended Sharpton to host Nicolle Wallace and Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
“Now you contrast that, at the same time … President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa, I’ll give you refugee status. So, we’re bringing in white Afrikaners, who we don’t know if they’re criminals, we don’t know whether they went through the legal process in South Africa — but people right here in Newark, we’re gonna assume they are all criminal, we’re gonna bring them out, and if the mayor wants to say wait a minute, let’s have due process,– lock him up, he’s trespassing,” the pundit railed further. “It is as blatantly a double standard as one can get.”
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