Race-baiting and status-conflating found Rev. Al Sharpton leaving out key details as he griped about the kind of violence that South African refugees were fleeing.
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Blending feigned and genuine ignorance, Democrat politicians and their complicit corporate media talking heads have blustered over the word “illegal” when describing foreign nationals who’ve entered the United States illegally. Amid the defense of gang-affiliated illegals, Sharpton attempted to frame an argument built on race over granting refugee status to white Afrikaners while neglecting to mention the racial discrimination they were experiencing.
During a Friday appearance on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” the career activist attempted to draw a comparison between the slated arrival of South African refugees with the latest leftist protest against mass deportations that resulted in Newark, New Jersey Mayor Ras Baraka (D) being arrested for trespassing at an ICE detention center.
“The problem here is that you’re talking about the mayor of a city where people are being held without due process, in many cases. So he has the right to say, wait a minute, I want to know what’s going on here — why are people being held without due process,” contended Sharpton to host Nicolle Wallace and Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
“Now you contrast that, at the same time … President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa, I’ll give you refugee status. So, we’re bringing in white Afrikaners, who we don’t know if they’re criminals, we don’t know whether they went through the legal process in South Africa — but people right here in Newark, we’re gonna assume they are all criminal, we’re gonna bring them out, and if the mayor wants to say wait a minute, let’s have due process,– lock him up, he’s trespassing,” the pundit railed further. “It is as blatantly a double standard as one can get.”
As had been reported, the situation in South Africa has devolved to the point where Secretary of State Marco Rubio has deemed South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool “PERSONA NON GRATA” as the official alleged President Donald Trump was “launching an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency, at home, and — I think I’ve illustrated — abroad as well.”
That action came the month after the president issued an executive order decrying South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 that allowed seizure of property of ethnic minorities “without compensation.” Due to the treatment of white Afrikaners, Trump made it U.S. policy to “promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”
Meanwhile, as Baraka played the victim and claimed he had the “right to go anywhere in the city” following his arrest for trespassing, Sharpton brought up the deportation of alleged human trafficker Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the left’s “Maryland Man,” as he attempted to conjure a double standard.
“What is the real policy gonna be? … Are we gonna have due process, or are we just gonna let everybody go, and can the president just give other people, blanket, ‘you’re refugees?’ So, what’s the difference, Mr. President, between a refugee and a guy who may be a criminal and may not be given the Garcia situation?”
According to details of the United States Refugee Admissions Program laid out on the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services website, the Department of Homeland Security through USCIS, “has responsibility for adjudicating applications for refugee status and reviewing case decisions; the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) screens arriving refugees for admission at the port of entry.”
In other words, refugees, like the Afrikaners who were expected to arrive in the United States on Monday, who were properly vetted, were welcome, whereas foreign nationals bum-rushing the border or being smuggled in without authorization were criminals because they violated the law.
“You’re not asking for any status there, at all. Just, come ye that will, and we’ll give you a refugee status. But these people, we’re going to lock ’em up,” Sharpton went on to insist as social media called him out over wanting to deny “white Christian refugees coming to the US to escape genocide?”
The world‘s most famous race baitor doesn’t want white Christian refugees coming to the US to escape genocide? Shocker.
— F3 Karma (@f3_karma) May 10, 2025
We have to remember that this man, the “good” reverend, monetizes racism
Al’s job is to create mournful victims by peddling racism.
Without casting his net in ugly waters to fish for racism, Al
has nothing to sell viewers
on MSNBC.— Tosca Austen (@ToscaAusten) May 10, 2025
Apparently skin color is the only consideration when it comes to Democrats.
— David Denend (@Support_JDepp) May 10, 2025
Simple. Trump is talking about bringing them through the front door, where they’ll be thoroughly checked before it’s determined if they’re allowed to stay. That’s vastly different from illegals sneaking across the border without any checking. There’s no comparison, and Al…
— Peter Ralph Tigers (@PeterRalphBooks) May 11, 2025
Racism is Sharpton’s revenue stream
— Bret Weingart (@kbweingart) May 11, 2025
— Sifuedition (@sifuedition) May 10, 2025
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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