In South Africa, genocide is the logical conclusion of decolonization. Today, President Donald J. Trump stood up for the oppressed Afrikaners, South African natives brutally oppressed by their government since the Mandela Revolution of 1994.
With the eyes of the world watching, South Africa’s house of cards came crashing down in the Oval Office. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa demanded that “it will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans” when questioned about the state-sanctioned killings of white farmers in his country. Evidently, he did not intend for the voices of white Afrikaners to be counted.
President Trump was prepared for Ramaphosa’s trickery. He played Ramaphosa a long clip of genocidal statements by South African politicians, right there in the Oval Office. First was the infamous “Kill the Boer, the farmer – shoot to kill” chant, uttered by the head of the so-called “Economic Freedom Fighters” before a stadium of bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs. Then, President Trump showcased Ramaphosa’s support for government-sanctioned theft of Afrikaner property and added footage of a roadside memorial where an endless row of crosses marks the victims of the Mandela Revolution and the turmoil of the subsequent decades. Ramaphosa, shockingly, denied knowledge of the memorial and repeated his approval for land appropriation under the government’s Expropriation Act (which permits “nil” compensation to be awarded for expropriated land).
Identity politics and social justice end not in an equal world, but rather in a hellscape. South Africa is a model case not for decolonization, but for the horrific consequences thereof. Like Mao’s Five-Year Plans and Stalin’s purges, the African National Congress (ANC) will descend the ranks of historical infamy to the purgatory where it belongs. The Mandela Revolution was once held up by the radical left as a model for the new liberal world order that was foisted as a fait accompli on America and her allies. But the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln are peace and freedom, while the legacies of Mandela, Ramaphosa, and Malema will be the cold deaths of their peaceful, hapless victims.
The New York Young Republican Club recognizes that decolonization and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. From our vantage point just 31 years after the Mandela Revolution, it is not too soon to pass judgment on South Africa, much as our fathers righteously condemned China and the Soviet Union. As such, the principles of decolonization and the ANC must be rejected, just as Republicans of previous generations rejected the principles of Marx, Lenin, and Mao.
Let identity politics, social justice, and the push for reparations be condemned to the ash heap of history where they belong.