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Donald Trump\u2019s apartheid-defending ambassador to South Africa officially began serving in his role on Monday, as the administration continues to push racist lies about a \u201cwhite genocide\u201d in the nation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Leo Brent Bozell III, the right-wing activist and censorship advocate whose son stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, submitted his letters of credence to South Africa\u2019s government on Monday, officially commencing his term as ambassador.<\/p>\n

When Trump\u2019s nominee was confirmed by the Senate in December, my colleague Steve Benen wrote a blog that cited reporting from Talking Points Memo about Bozell\u2019s past opposition to activists who fought against South Africa\u2019s racist apartheid. The TPM report highlights how segregationist Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., boosted Bozell\u2019s coalition in 1987, when it opposed the U.S. secretary of state meeting with a representative for the African National Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, Bozell is officially the United States\u2019 top envoy to the very nation whose Black freedom fighters he previously sought to spurn more than three decades ago. And he\u2019s serving an administration that\u2019s arguably more focused on advancing white supremacist views than any administration since the height of the Jim Crow era.\u00a0(It\u2019s also worth noting the number of wealthy, white Trump allies with ties to apartheid South Africa, such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel.)<\/p>\n

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During South African President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s visit to the White House last year, Trump played a disinformation-filled video he falsely claimed showed how a \u201cwhite genocide\u201d was endangering South African farmers. Such propaganda has even underpinned the administration\u2019s invitation to white South African immigrants to come as refugees to the U.S., even as (largely nonwhite) immigrants are being deported and others from heavily non-white countries are denied entry.<\/p>\n

Bozell, given his history, is likely to fit in with the Trump administration\u2019s white supremacist foreign policy approach to South Africa, even as claims of white genocide continue to fall apart under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

This past Sunday, for example, \u201c60 Minutes\u201d aired a segment in which Anderson Cooper visited South Africa, where he heard from experts and multiple white farmers who confirmed that Trump\u2019s claims about white genocide aren\u2019t rooted in reality.<\/p>\n

Read more Republican voters believe things that aren\u2019t true. That\u2019s a problem for the GOP.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leo Brent Bozell III, who opposed Black activists that sought to dismantle South Africa\u2019s racist apartheid, now represents the U.S. in the country the administration has falsely accused of abetting a \u201cwhite genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us"],"yoast_head":"\nTrump\u2019s apartheid-friendly ambassador to South Africa takes role - Long Distance Movers USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/longdistancemoversusas.com\/?p=57\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s apartheid-friendly ambassador to South Africa takes role - 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