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What Trump’s fixation on ‘white genocide’ in South Africa tells us concerning the U.S. : Code Change : NPR


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South African President Ramaphosa meets President Trump amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the U.S. president claims are the victims of “genocide.”

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South African President Ramaphosa meets President Trump amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of white Afrikaners that the U.S. president claims are the victims of “genocide.”

Jim Watson/AFP through Getty Photographs

How the false notion of “white genocide” traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Workplace. The week on Code Change, we’re speaking to a reporter who was within the room throughout a gathering when President Trump pushed this conspiracy principle on the president of South Africa. And we’re digging into what Trump’s fixation on white South Africans inform us about anxieties over white substitute right here within the U.S.

This episode was produced by Christina Cala and Jess Kung. It was edited by Courtney Stein. Our engineer who Jimmy Keeley.