Rick Stengel on U.S. Taking South African Refugees: ‘Deeply and Morally Wrongheaded and Repulsive’

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STENGEL: “Yes, so deeply and morally wrongheaded and repulsive. These are the descendants of the people who created the most diabolical system of white supremacy in human history, apartheid. They’re not directly responsible for it, but it was a system that actually moved black people off of the arable land, so they inherited the land that the black people had to give up. It was called forced removal. Something called a Bantustan Policy, where they moved black people out of the cities and farm lands into these remote areas with non-arable land. I mean, it was just one of the most worst processes ever. But what has happened in this strange, bizarre world we’re living in is that the Afrikaners have become the darling of these right-wing white supremacist movements around the world. That it’s like — it’s like the lost cause for them. It’s like the old Confederacy.”