US-Afrikaner Refugee Scheme: When White Supremacy Needs a Visa
South Africa plans to deport Kenyans involved in processing applications for Afrikaners seeking refugee status in the US, a scheme that reportedly gained traction under President Trump. The optics are staggering: white South Africans, descendants of those who built and enforced apartheid, seeking asylum from the very nation they subjugated. Trump himself, in 2018, ordered a review of South African
land seizures and 'large scale killing of farmers,' amplifying white nationalist narratives about 'white genocide' — narratives that ignore the violent land theft that formed the basis of apartheid. While the world watches Palestinian refugees being bombed and starved with US-supplied munitions and UNRWA funding cut (as of March 2024, the US remains the largest donor to UNRWA, but temporarily
paused funding to the essential aid organization after Israeli allegations), the US appears to have quietly greenlighted a pathway for Afrikaners. This isn't just a refugee scheme; it's a historical revision, neatly packaged for a sympathetic audience, where the descendants of oppressors are repositioned as victims. One might wonder why a program isn't being set up for the actual victims of
apartheid, or the millions displaced by US-funded wars.