QuoteTrust President Trump, following his familiar tactic of deflecting attention from yet another scandal by issuing some outrageous tweet, to come down hard on the wrong side of an issue he knows nothing about,

QuoteHis source was a grossly one-sided report by the Fox host Tucker Carlson asserting that the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, was seizing land from his citizens because they are the wrong "skin color."

Quoteand Mr. Ramaphosa's proposal to change the Constitution to allow expropriation of land without compensation has not yet passed.

QuoteThere can be no question that South Africa's black people were long denied fair access to land.  

QuoteMr. Ramaphosa argued in an op-ed article in The Financial Times that his proposal was "no land grab,"

QuoteAll that is subject to debate and study, which is now underway.

QuoteYet Mr. Trump's tweet, and the Fox show on which it was based, were bereft of any context, sympathy or understanding.

QuoteThey pounced, instead, on the false narratives of right-wing white South African groups claiming widespread seizures of white-owned land

Quoteand a continuing "white genocide."

QuoteIn fact, the number of killings of farmers and farm workers is at a 20-year low, with 47 in the  2017-18 fiscal year, according to AgriSA, a farmers' organization in South Africa. The numbers have been declining steadily since peaking in 1998, when 153 were killed.

QuoteNot surprisingly, South Africa reacted angrily to Mr. Trump's tweet, saying it reflected a "narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past."

QuoteSadly, it probably reflects even less than that — a clueless grasp at a racially tinged political diversion.

Quote from: "Fashionista"If Israel was seizing Arab owned farms without compensation the New York Times would be tearing Trump apart  in editorials to do more than just look into it..



Because the farmers being persecuted are Caucasian, the New York Times gives tacit approval.....shame on them.