A Look Inside the Welcome Bags Planned for White South African Refugees

[Nanjeanne]

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In the coming weeks, the United States plans to provide a welcome gift to white South Africans entering the United States as refugees.

They will get an Android tablet, an American flag and copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people.

The welcome bags include a report commissioned by Mr. Trump during his first term that downplays the role of slavery in the country’s founding, and a children’s book accusing South Africa’s government of “favoring the Black population.”

The proposal for the bags is still being finalized. Mr. Trump’s aides have planned to give them to a group of South African Afrikaners who enter the United States in the coming weeks, according to government documents obtained by The New York Times and an official familiar with the matter.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to detail plans that have not been announced. It is not clear how much the bags cost, or how much of the cost was being paid by taxpayers. It is unusual for the government to provide welcome gifts of this kind to refugees.

[Haggard Celine]

1. Trump will give them each a set of sheets and a rope.

[dweller]

2. Plus an autographed copy

of kash patel’s book ‘the plot against the king ‘

😐


✌🏻

[Melon]

3. I think the children's book probably la is context

The Legislation in South Africa does favor the black population. This is I thought is not disputed in the least. The context is that it’s to try balance out and return some justice from the past.

“ And a children’s book accusing South Africa’s government of “favoring the Black population.”

[struggle4progress]

4. Fuck the little creeps who are upset that apartheid ended

[crud]

5. What the fuck is wrong

with these sick fucks?

[IzzaNuDay]

6. if one of these families moves into my community

I’m going to reach out to them and say the usa government is dead wrong about what was given to them.

[Liberal In Texas]

7. Just what the country needs: Importing more racists.

[Vinca]

8. What will they say if the next POTUS decides to oust them as Trump is doing with the Haitians?

Can't say much since the SCOTUS chapter of the Trump Fan Club rubber stamped it.

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Disgusting in every way.