Tim Miller calls out the press conference by Trump's Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau where he explains the decision to accept white South African refugees while rejecting others, particularly Afghan refugees being forced to leave the United States, highlighting blatant racial bias and hypocrisy in U.S.
As a white South African who left a comfortable life to come to the US in 1978 - as a vote against apartheid - this is galling to say the least.
We were blocked from transferring our money and had to start from scratch here. But we did it for the sake of our 6 children who we wanted to raise in a multicultural country that shared and stood for our values.
We never dreamed that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, but sanctions by the US and other countries worked to force this outcome, and SA ended up becoming a democracy!
I'm going to make one more comment. It might go down like a lead balloon.
Us folks from South Africa look at TikTok and YouTube - and we think - Dear God, Americans are 10x more rascist than we ever were. Even during apartheid.
Does that sound crazy.
Here's the thing. I dare any Karen to come and ask black folks here what they are doing in a communal swimming pool in a gated community. I dare any Maggot to put on a Kamala Sucked Her Way To The Top t-shirt, put on that t-shirt here and see how many metres you can walk in a Shopping Mall. I dare any American politician to come here and do the Fanny/Fani "Ho" schtick. Get up on a stage here and call any woman a Ho - and see how far you get.
We never had things like lynchings. We never burned black churches to the ground.
If folks around the world bring up the horrors of apartheid, most white South Africans hang their heads in shame. But we bristle when Americans tell us how racist we are.
I share your disgust. Another moral crime committed in the name of America. Remember the outrage at Biden for "abandoning" the Afghans who trusted us and helped us? Especially from the GOP! But now it's OK to just throw them back there. Moral depravity.
I almost couldn't watch the whole thing because I am so physically nauseous at the whole situation. They aren't even hiding this racism anymore. Thank you for joining in on the outrage, Tim!!!
Musk is mostly not an actual Afrikaaner, based on his heritage. It seems he has a little bit of Dutch SA heritage on his paternal grandparents' side, but mostly English. Which almost is worse, because it really means he and his family consciously identified with the Afrikaner heritage and what that meant within SA. Both of his parents are repulsive.
Errol, Elon's father, grew up poor English in the 1950s. In those days, poor English was fairly uncommon. It was the early years of the Nationalist government and they had really only started the work of bringing the Boere (white, Afrikaans speaking farmers) off the farms and into protected employment on the railways and in Post Offices. Also, they invested big in Afrikaans universities.
In the 1950s there was also still A Lot of animosity between English and Afrikaans speaking folks. There were Afrikaans grandmothers alive who had almost starved to death in the British concentration camps for women and children, set up during the Anglo-Boer wars.
In the 1950s, if you were poor English, really the only people you could look down on were the Afrikaners. Add to that, simmering animosity.
I think this burns inside Errol till today. Here's the thing. Errol has at least as many wives and even a daughter-wife as Elon. After Maye, the mother of Kimball Elon and Tosca, these women are all Afrikaans, and the children of these marriages, half Afrikaans.
Later thisyear there is going to be a wedding in the States of one of these half Afrikaans daughters. Errol might or might not go. The reason, his half Afrikaans daughter has found herself a dumb as a Rock future husband. Whether Errol attends the nuptuals or not, the minute she marries this man, her Musk money gets cut off.
For context, in my youth in the early 1970s - there was still animosity between English and Afrikaans. They called us Rooinekke (Red Necks, the burned necks of British soldiers fresh off the boat to fight in the Anglo Boer war), and/or Soutpiele (salty dicks - English speakers supposedly having one foot in England. one foot in SA, and our dicks dangling in the sea in between). For our part we called the The Rocks. As in Dumb as a Rock.
It is an interesting point for this reason. Errol has married and had children with numerous Afrikaans people. Peopple that he absolutely has zero respect for. If you know the cues, you pick it up. His animosity clearly is so bad that his half Afrikaans daughter choosing for herslef a full blood Afrikaner is a step too far for Errol. But essentially what this tells you is this - Errol, and I would say Elon, will get into bed with folks for whom they have Zero respect. Contempt even. They will make it look like a happy marriage. Really, all they're doing is Fffing that person to get what they want.
Does that sound maybe like something Elon is doing right now? And I'm not talking about the various baby-mammas.
The video of Landau welcoming them made me want to vomit. “Quality seeds” - “As you know—a lot of you I think are farmers, right—when you have quality seeds, you can put them in foreign soil and they will blossom. They will bloom…” They're making no attempt to hide the racism just as Trump is letting it all hang out with the corruption.
So ICE is going to keep the 19 year old, who now Georgia acknowledges wasn’t even guilty of a traffic violation, but we are supposed to accept these Afrikaners, and roll out the red carpet for them. Disgusting.
I’d like to point out,Tim, that Elon Musk is not an Afrikaner, nor are the other South Africans in the regime’s orbit. He’s a white South African, but there’s a distinction between the two. I’m not sure how this came to Trump’s attention, but doubtful on Musk. I suspect this stems from the white nationalist MAGA crowd who have connections to white nationalist Afrikaners and share their grievance and victimization.
So, are you aware of anyone organizing resistance to this in the form of public protest? Like Hands Off Afghani allies? It seems like being angry in this space just encourages us to believe we are helpless.
As a white South African who left a comfortable life to come to the US in 1978 - as a vote against apartheid - this is galling to say the least.
We were blocked from transferring our money and had to start from scratch here. But we did it for the sake of our 6 children who we wanted to raise in a multicultural country that shared and stood for our values.
We never dreamed that Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, but sanctions by the US and other countries worked to force this outcome, and SA ended up becoming a democracy!
Silly us …
Preach, my good man, preach!
I'm going to make one more comment. It might go down like a lead balloon.
Us folks from South Africa look at TikTok and YouTube - and we think - Dear God, Americans are 10x more rascist than we ever were. Even during apartheid.
Does that sound crazy.
Here's the thing. I dare any Karen to come and ask black folks here what they are doing in a communal swimming pool in a gated community. I dare any Maggot to put on a Kamala Sucked Her Way To The Top t-shirt, put on that t-shirt here and see how many metres you can walk in a Shopping Mall. I dare any American politician to come here and do the Fanny/Fani "Ho" schtick. Get up on a stage here and call any woman a Ho - and see how far you get.
We never had things like lynchings. We never burned black churches to the ground.
If folks around the world bring up the horrors of apartheid, most white South Africans hang their heads in shame. But we bristle when Americans tell us how racist we are.
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Sarcastic , snarky Tim is a thing of wonder! One of his best videos yet… I’m ashamed of us as a country.
I share your disgust. Another moral crime committed in the name of America. Remember the outrage at Biden for "abandoning" the Afghans who trusted us and helped us? Especially from the GOP! But now it's OK to just throw them back there. Moral depravity.
I almost couldn't watch the whole thing because I am so physically nauseous at the whole situation. They aren't even hiding this racism anymore. Thank you for joining in on the outrage, Tim!!!
Musk is mostly not an actual Afrikaaner, based on his heritage. It seems he has a little bit of Dutch SA heritage on his paternal grandparents' side, but mostly English. Which almost is worse, because it really means he and his family consciously identified with the Afrikaner heritage and what that meant within SA. Both of his parents are repulsive.
Errol, Elon's father, grew up poor English in the 1950s. In those days, poor English was fairly uncommon. It was the early years of the Nationalist government and they had really only started the work of bringing the Boere (white, Afrikaans speaking farmers) off the farms and into protected employment on the railways and in Post Offices. Also, they invested big in Afrikaans universities.
In the 1950s there was also still A Lot of animosity between English and Afrikaans speaking folks. There were Afrikaans grandmothers alive who had almost starved to death in the British concentration camps for women and children, set up during the Anglo-Boer wars.
In the 1950s, if you were poor English, really the only people you could look down on were the Afrikaners. Add to that, simmering animosity.
I think this burns inside Errol till today. Here's the thing. Errol has at least as many wives and even a daughter-wife as Elon. After Maye, the mother of Kimball Elon and Tosca, these women are all Afrikaans, and the children of these marriages, half Afrikaans.
Later thisyear there is going to be a wedding in the States of one of these half Afrikaans daughters. Errol might or might not go. The reason, his half Afrikaans daughter has found herself a dumb as a Rock future husband. Whether Errol attends the nuptuals or not, the minute she marries this man, her Musk money gets cut off.
For context, in my youth in the early 1970s - there was still animosity between English and Afrikaans. They called us Rooinekke (Red Necks, the burned necks of British soldiers fresh off the boat to fight in the Anglo Boer war), and/or Soutpiele (salty dicks - English speakers supposedly having one foot in England. one foot in SA, and our dicks dangling in the sea in between). For our part we called the The Rocks. As in Dumb as a Rock.
It is an interesting point for this reason. Errol has married and had children with numerous Afrikaans people. Peopple that he absolutely has zero respect for. If you know the cues, you pick it up. His animosity clearly is so bad that his half Afrikaans daughter choosing for herslef a full blood Afrikaner is a step too far for Errol. But essentially what this tells you is this - Errol, and I would say Elon, will get into bed with folks for whom they have Zero respect. Contempt even. They will make it look like a happy marriage. Really, all they're doing is Fffing that person to get what they want.
Does that sound maybe like something Elon is doing right now? And I'm not talking about the various baby-mammas.
Thank you Tim!
The video of Landau welcoming them made me want to vomit. “Quality seeds” - “As you know—a lot of you I think are farmers, right—when you have quality seeds, you can put them in foreign soil and they will blossom. They will bloom…” They're making no attempt to hide the racism just as Trump is letting it all hang out with the corruption.
So ICE is going to keep the 19 year old, who now Georgia acknowledges wasn’t even guilty of a traffic violation, but we are supposed to accept these Afrikaners, and roll out the red carpet for them. Disgusting.
Trump sent a free plane for them!
I’d like to point out,Tim, that Elon Musk is not an Afrikaner, nor are the other South Africans in the regime’s orbit. He’s a white South African, but there’s a distinction between the two. I’m not sure how this came to Trump’s attention, but doubtful on Musk. I suspect this stems from the white nationalist MAGA crowd who have connections to white nationalist Afrikaners and share their grievance and victimization.
Is that man wearing a tan suit?
Yes. If one’s skin color is darker than said suit, no asylum. Lighter, you might be ok.
Thank you Tim! I love your passion! We are a disgusting, racist country and I’m ashamed to call myself an American!
MAGA dupes will say it is because they already speak English
So, are you aware of anyone organizing resistance to this in the form of public protest? Like Hands Off Afghani allies? It seems like being angry in this space just encourages us to believe we are helpless.