America Is A Nation, Not An Idea
John Daniel Davidson
Last week President Trump said farmers in South Africa who are facing confiscation of their lands without compensation under a new land expropriation law could be offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship.
The South African law, which proponents claim is designed to redress apartheid-era grievances of the country’s black majority against its white minority, prompted Trump to announce last month that his administration will cut all U.S. subsidies to South Africa and launch an investigation into alleged human rights violations against the white Afrikaner minority perpetrated by the regime of President Cyril Ramaphosa and his African National Congress party.
To the extent the corporate press has covered these developments in South Africa at all, it has been mostly to dismiss any concerns about the land expropriation law and violence against white Afrikaner farmers as “conspiracy theories” pushed by Trump and Elon Musk, himself an Afrikaner who has recently decried the racist anti-white laws and policies in his native country (such as the fact that Starlink isn’t allowed to operate in South Africa because Musk is not black). But these aren’t just conspiracy theories, they’re real problems that portend very bad things for Afrikaners and all South Africans.
What was important about Trump’s response, though, is that by offering Afrikaner farmers an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship, the president acknowledged that America isn’t just an idea but a nation. Prioritizing certain foreigners over others is a repudiation of the popular but fatuous notion that any person from any culture or part of the world can become an American simply by going through a neutral administrative process. In other words, it matters where you come from, what you believe, and how you live.
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