‘I have no regrets!’ – that was the message of South Africa’s expelled ambassador to the US, addressing supporters who’d come to greet him at Cape Town airport. Ebrahim Rasool took his expulsion by the Trump administration as a ‘badge of dignity.’ The boisterous crowd praised him for serving the country honourably. The veteran diplomat
That was literally my first thought, too. This is not some random African country that threw off its oppressors after WWII. This is *South Africa, where the oppressors held on until the 1990s. Here’s a leader from a country whose racial reconciliation we still haven’t come close to replicating, and President Musk Trump thinks the country is too unfair to white people.
Ok…now 40 years ago would this have been a satirical headline…
what…the fuck…
That was literally my first thought, too. This is not some random African country that threw off its oppressors after WWII. This is *South Africa, where the oppressors held on until the 1990s. Here’s a leader from a country whose racial reconciliation we still haven’t come close to replicating, and President
MuskTrump thinks the country is too unfair to white people.