To the editor: I’m a white American dwelling in South Africa. There isn’t any white “genocide” right here (“Trump confronts South African chief with claims of systematic killing of white farmers,” Might 21). That could be a figment of President Trump’s fevered creativeness. My white Afrikaner pals 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 folks in on a regular basis encounters and the massive disparities of earnings and alternative loved by white people who 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 at present a fellow for the Stellenbosch Institute for Superior Examine.
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To the editor: Most world leaders, when different heads of state are visiting their nation, will exit of their option to make the international chief really feel proper at dwelling by exchanging pleasantries and discussing similarities between the 2 international locations. Our defiant president, alternatively, went out of his option 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 are actually the victims of genocide.
This preposterous declare is fake. It as soon as once more confirmed that our mendacity chief will do something to try to idiot the world into believing his misguided model of occasions. You’d hope that, in some unspecified time in the future, Trump would acknowledge that his falsities hurt all who learn or hear his lack of information 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 going on 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 kids in its pursuit of Hamas. There’s something terribly improper with Trump.
Roger Taylor, Brea
