One of the most overlooked human rights violations in the world today is taking place in South Africa. Yet the atrocities of the South African government have received almost no attention in Western media. In fact, the biggest recent headline regarding South Africa wasn’t their gradual genocide of white citizens, but rather the fact that former President Barrack Obama visited the country and praised its government for being “progressive”.
This “progressive” government as Obama calls it, is one that has enacted a plan to seize 139 farms owned by white South Africans and redistribute them to black South African citizens as a form of restitution. South Africa has justified this “restitution” by pointing to the institutionalized racial segregation that took place in South Africa from 1948 to 1990 while the country was under white minority rule.
Two of the first white South African citizens to fall victim to this plan where two farmers located in South Africa’s northern region of Limpopo. At first, the South African government approached the farmers with an offer to purchase their land and asked the farmers to quote their price. After the farmers quoted a fair-market price of $18 million for their land, though, the South African government countered with an offer a $1.8 million – just one-tenth of what the land was worth. When the farmers refused this offer, the government evicted them from their land and seized it from them.
This seizure of land follows an announcement by the South African government that they plan to introduce a constitutional change that will allow them to seize the land of white South African citizens without any offer to purchase the land, any eviction notice, or any court hearings. Since this announcement was made, white South African landowners have been racing to sell their land and leave the country before the new policy goes into practice.
These landowners are largely relocating to nearby Australia, leading the Australian media to become one of the only major media outlets to report on the atrocity.
So why is it that mainstream media outlets in the United States and elsewhere refuse to cover these horrifying instances of government overreach and human rights violations?
As with most things the media refuses to report, the situation in South Africa has received minimal coverage due to the fact that it does not fit the media’s leftist narrative. In the leftist worldview, white citizens are always the oppressors and never the oppressed. Institutional racism against white citizens is seen as an impossible concept, and the idea that a black majority government could use their power to oppress a minority of white citizens in the same way that white majority governments have oppressed black minority citizens throughout the past is simply not feasible.
What’s taking place in South Africa, of course, completely derails the idea that institutional racism is a concept that can only be executed by white people. The South African government is in no way a “progressive” government as Obama described it when he was heaping praise on the very leaders who are conducting a gradual, step by step genocide of their minority citizens. Rather, it is a government that is every bit as regressive as the government that oversaw slavery and segregation in the United States.
To make matters even more sickening, the atrocities in South Africa are all being done in the name of a very leftist ideology. The belief that white South African citizens bear responsibility for the misdeeds of their ancestors and must give up their rights as punishment for those misdeeds bears a striking resemblance to leftist thought on racism and restitution in the United States. Perhaps this is yet another reason why the mainstream media refuses to cover the atrocities of the South African government – they represent how horribly things can go wrong when far-left ideas on race are taken to their natural conclusion.
One way or another, it is a terribly sad situation for white South Africans who are forced to give up their lands and flee their homes in the name of restitution. Unfortunately, so long as Western powers continue to let the South African government get away with these actions, the atrocities they commit against their white citizens will only grow more extreme.
~ American Liberty Report
