To the editor: I’m a white American residing in South Africa. There isn’t any white “genocide” right here (“Trump confronts South African leader with claims of systematic killing of white farmers,” Could 21). That may be a figment of President Trump’s fevered creativeness. My white Afrikaner buddies are appalled on the completely unfaithful portrayal of their society and the shameful bullying of their president by ours.
I’ve lived in seven international locations and visited 30. Nowhere else have I skilled the excessive diploma of white privilege, the automated deference proven to white individuals in on a regular basis encounters and the large disparities of revenue and alternative loved by white folks that exist in South Africa. Disgrace on President Trump.
Paul Spickard, Stellenbosch, South Africa
This author is a distinguished professor of historical past at UC Santa Barbara and presently a fellow for the Stellenbosch Institute for Superior Research.
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To the editor: Most world leaders, when different heads of state are visiting their nation, will exit of their method to make the international chief really feel proper at dwelling by exchanging pleasantries and discussing similarities between the 2 international locations. Our defiant president, then again, went out of his method to attempt to embarrass South African management by exhibiting movies that falsely declared that descendants of the predominantly Dutch colonizers who got here to South Africa within the seventeenth century and dominated the land’s politics for a few years at the moment are the victims of genocide.
This preposterous declare is fake. It as soon as once more confirmed that our mendacity chief will do something to attempt to idiot the world into believing his inaccurate model of occasions. You’ll hope that, in some unspecified time in the future, Trump would acknowledge that his falsities hurt all who learn or hear his lack of knowledge of how the world truly works.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff, Calif.
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To the editor: As soon as once more, Trump’s hypocrisy exhibits itself by his falsely claiming that South Africa is perpetrating genocide on white farmers whereas ignoring what is occurring to Palestinians in Gaza. Regardless of there being little proof to assist such a declare towards the federal government of South Africa, Trump minimize off help to that nation whereas persevering with to supply materials assist to Israel as that nation indiscriminately kills many ladies and youngsters in its pursuit of Hamas. There’s something terribly unsuitable with Trump.
Roger Taylor, Brea
