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They better find homes among White supremacists because they won't get away with treating Black Americans the way they treated Blacks in S. Africa.
Poor babies are only 8% of the population in S. Africa and yet they own 80% of the land. Genocide my ass.
I'm sure they will become dual citizens so I wonder how long before they start to cry about leopards eating their faces and want to go home?
Oh and Putin did the exact same thing in Russia, imagine that?

WhiskeyGrinder
(24,820 posts)Ocelot II
(124,696 posts)Are there any Black people in Idaho at all? A few, I guess - 0.9%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho
PatSeg
(50,173 posts)There are plenty of reasons why it is so sparsely populated. I think there will be a lot of regrets in the near future.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(122,879 posts)There are several I'm told.
paleotn
(20,348 posts)
gab13by13
(28,081 posts)paleotn
(20,348 posts)Norrrm
(1,490 posts)"A US-funded flight"
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143457997
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Will they be taking jobs from Americans?
Vogon_Glory
(9,825 posts)I suspect that theyre gaming the American immigration system, much like many Cuban immigrants did in the 1990s and the 00s. They might understand the equality of the races and ethnic groups better than our homegrown all-Amurrican bigots.
Bonx
(2,335 posts)This rant sounds like something from Frank Burns on MASH.
Vogon_Glory
(9,825 posts)tweaks and legal carve-outs to get green cards. Im not holding that against them, they might work out.
Bonx
(2,335 posts)EDIT: See post below mine for an example, lol.
They're not Trump. they're just peple looking for a better life.
What "irrational hate for these people?" That is not the issue, not at all. They are being coddled. They aren't victims. What a contrast to the way other immigrants are being treated, people who actually are desperate refugees, who actually are targeted by irrational hate.
paleotn
(20,348 posts)they're not a specific shade.
We've got more than enough white Europeans with attitudes and boring food.
malaise
(283,991 posts)Eff them
DavidDvorkin
(20,163 posts)paleotn
(20,348 posts)berkerly6240
(89 posts)just because their government was racist doesnt mean everyone from SA is racist.
Would you like to be judged in another country just based on Trump??
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Arazi
(7,788 posts)Ill go further and state it wouldnt surprise me if these folks werent specifically chosen because theyre racists and bigots.
Charl Kleinhaus, one of the South Africans has a history of despicable social media posts including a tweet: Jews are an untrustworthy and dangerous group
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https://bsky.app/profile/reichlinmelnick.bsky.social/post/3lp5eym6snc2s
Cirsium
(2,476 posts)They might be very nice people. That has nothing to do with anything.
Their need for asylum is based on lies. The way they are being fast tracked in while the same people are viciously attacking other immigrants is the problem. Obviously.
Damn, it is depressing to see ideas like that expressed here.
MorbidButterflyTat
(2,951 posts)Kinda weird, too.
Ping Tung
(2,341 posts)misanthrope
(8,730 posts)We are mandated to serve all refugees, no matter how they arrive, said Liz Kurtz, the Alabama refugee coordinator for Inspiritus, a nonprofit that operates out of Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee. She declined to share details about the number of Afrikaner families moving to Alabama, citing privacy protections. They began to arrive May 12.
This is perfect since South Africa used the Jim Crow South as a model for crafting apartheid. The Nazis also modeled their state's racial policies on the post-Reconstruction American South.
DBoon
(23,694 posts)in part because they would be comfortable with its racial politics in the 1940s/1950s
phxjurist
(27 posts)Polybius
(19,899 posts)Maybe they just wanted to come here.
senseandsensibility
(22,030 posts)is not justification for refugee status by any stretch of the imagination. That's kind of the point. There is no other group anywhere who gets refugee status just by saying they want to come here. Only them.
GenThePerservering
(2,846 posts)because after seeing photos of them with Trump worship signs saying 'nice things' about him and the gross misrepresentation of conditions...
I would say "maybe just wanted to come here" is, indeed, ironic.
No - this is just another white supremacy dog whistle.
Cirsium
(2,476 posts)How do we know that the white population (insert the obligatory "not all whites" disclaimer) mistreated Black people in South Africa?
How does anyone not know that?
Polybius
(19,899 posts)I'm talking about the specific group that was just let in.
Clouds Passing
(4,703 posts)tulipsandroses
(7,225 posts)while saying that non white immigrants already here, working and paying taxes must leave?
viva la
(4,096 posts)He could come home, but can't afford it because the SA currency is worth very little anywhere else. All his savings are about enough to buy a studio condo in the US. (He lives in a huge house in South Africa.)
So these immigrants might be in for a shock when they transfer their savings to the US. Heck, they might have to be like most immigrants and get a job!
sop
(14,150 posts)RJ-MacReady
(486 posts)Everyone single one of these people needs to be immediately deported.