Dakota Beacon

The big kerfuffle which was unleashed with Trump’s decision to admit ethnic Dutch Afrikaners from South Africa to the United States with refugee status really unmasks the deeply racist culture which has evolved in America.  

In 1994, the white-led government turned the nation of South Africa over to black leaders and freed Nelson Mandela from prison.  A constitution was established to guarantee rights of all.  This was supposed to be a great moment in time for South Africa, which the rest of the virtuous world had thought of as some sort of “slave colony”.  But, as with so much of world history, this virtuous world was mostly ignorant of almost everything to do with South Africa.  

As we should all know, South Africa is that continent’s southernmost region, whose coast includes the Cape of Good Hope.  This turns out to be important because of efforts to find a water route to the East Indies and the rest of Asia.  Until the 15th Century, trade had been conducted along the famous Silk Road, a network of trade routes overland from China to Europe.  Not only goods but technology was exchanged among the many peoples along the way.  When the Ottoman Empire began to exercise its muscle, interfering with trade, imposing heavy taxes and other obstructions to trade through the growing region they controlled, alternatives were sought by enterprising European traders.  The obvious alternative to land is the sea, and no one was better equipped to explore sea routes than the Portuguese in that era.  To reach Asia, therefore, ships sailed from the Atlantic and Mediterranean ports south around the continent of Africa.  That is a long trip.

Sailors needed provisions - food and water.  They needed a place to stage their supplies and equip the ships to finish their routes, both coming and going.  There was no Suez Canal back then.  Many nations engaged in trade with the near and far east and among them were the Dutch.  Unfortunately, the people who inhabited the southern region of Africa were of two groups - primitive nomadic goat herders and very, very primitive hunter-gatherers, much like the prehistoric humans.  There were no crops to provide sustenance, no orchards, no dairy farms - no farms at all.  The enterprising Dutch found farmers from their own nation who were willing to try growing crops and raising cattle and dairy herds on the “Dark Continent”  and brought them to the south coast of Africa, and the port became known as Cape Town.  

These farmers - Boers -  were highly successful.  Orderly, productive farms began to take the place of the scorched sand and scrubby chaparral of the Kalahari Desert.  This obtained for approximately 150 years, until the arrival of the British in 1795 and 1803.  The Dutch began moving inland, avoiding the British and in so doing discovered the mineral wealth of the region and began to industrialize and build cities.  In time the scrapping over these minerals, gold and diamonds, brought about the Boer Wars, finally ending with British suzerainty in 1902 (the Cape Colony)  and establishment of a British dominion similar to the arrangement with Canada.  In 1934 it arrived at the status of a nation state, part of the then vast British Empire, until a referendum in 1960 ended the British monarchy there and established a republic.

It is important to note here that slavery was officially abolished in South Africa in 1833.  There was a transition period of a sort of apprenticeship to train the slave population in skills which would support them in freedom.  (This would have been good policy for Abraham Lincoln to have consulted had he actually been interested in ending slavery.  He’d have had plenty of time to consider it - about 32 years.)

The Boers (really an admixture of Dutch, German, French Huguenot and other Europeans), have spent 300 or more years creating viable farms from this barren desert.  They took no farms from anyone. Anyone who understands farming knows that this is not a cushy lifestyle.  It is not the life of wealth and ease.  But it is honest labor-intensive work.  No one else earned these farms.  Since 1994 life has become ever more difficult and perilous for these people.  

No one understands water management better than the Dutch.  The Dutch farmers who arrived in the 17th Century in South Africa had spent their lives managing water - they reclaimed their land from the sea itself.  Efforts have been made to teach and train the black population in these areas but South African farming has sharply declined since the hand-over.  Everything else has been blamed - drought, livestock diseases, rising costs of supplies and equipment - but these factors are always lurking for farmers.  It happens everywhere - even in the American Midwest.  This is why the contribution of the Boers was so important to the viability of South Africa.  Today, however, by law, the farmlands of the Boers have been confiscated without any remuneration to them.  This was their way of life. What does a farmer do without a farm?  In South Africa he stands helplessly by and watches the farm go back to nature while he and his family have become homeless and without sustenance.  

If this were not punishment enough for being white, there are growing accounts of atrocities being committed against the white people.  Now we hear the chant of Julius Malema - :”Kill the Farmers!  Kill the Boers!”  And Malema is not some street fighter - he is a member of South Africa’s National Assembly.  Pause a moment to consider this.  And he is getting the crowds wound up with this.  If you lived in a homeless encampment for displaced Boers, or on a lonely farmstead in the hinterlands, would you be concerned for your family and your own life?  We need not ask.  The white people of South Africa are in imminent danger of the kind of bloodbath we have seen among tribes throughout Africa in the past.  The 1994 slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda should be fresh in the minds of many who are expressing outrage at Trump’s decision to give the Boers refugee status and should inform us of the kind of violence we have seen and will see again.  

One wonders about the mental wellness of a more-or-less respected “political analyst”(here meaning out-right liar), Rick Stengel, who would comment on MSNBC that “only a few” Boers have been killed so far. (In fact, there have been credible reports of more than 1,400 attacks/murders, but the corrupt South African government will not investigate these crimes.) It would be interesting to find out whether he thought the George Floyd incident justified the trashing and burning of American cities, coast to coast.  Floyd was one person and his cause of death is still uncertain.  Are white Afrikaners at risk of death?  If you have heard the insane rantings of Julius Malema you cannot doubt it.   Nor question the legitimacy of someone who sends the message that these whites can “go home”.  Their home for over 300 years has been South Africa!  By their very nature, farmers are tied to the land.  Or that they can “leave” if they don’t like it in South Africa.  But that would mean they need to actually physically go somewhere - like the United States.  The objections across the boards are racist.  The Episcopal Church has exited its contract to resettle refugees (good riddance, in the opinion of many).  Why?  For the SOLE REASON THAT THESE REFUGEES ARE WHITE.  There is no other reason.  

So far only about 59 individuals have taken advantage of the offer, but I would say that it would not be a stretch at all to offer asylum to every law-abiding white resident of South Africa.  Whites are about 7% of the South African population.  They number less than 5 million.  To put this into some kind of context, think of this:  In nearly every year since at least 2006 we have seen and tolerated about three times the total white population of  South Africa.  That is EACH YEAR.  Think of the numbers.  And if Trump orders deportation of those of them who have committed violent crimes on our soil, these same people raise the hue and cry.  We see fan moms organizing a campaign to bring back the “Maryland father” - the MS-13 member who beat his own wife mercilessly.   And here we are talking about illegal immigrants, not legal asylum seekers who follow the rules.  

The extreme likelihood is that none of these Boers will be intent on burning down our cities, taking over apartment complexes, terrorizing managers and tenants, stealing rents, clubbing people in subways, raping our children or plunging knives into us.  In fact, one might consider on second thought that they have jumped from the frying pan into the fire.  In addition to the “normal” risks of life in 2025 America, there is the fact that the hatred toward them from the left puts them at considerable hazard right here.  But if they want to take the risk, we should not say them nay.  They come with useful skills, they speak our language and they didn’t just jump the fence - they waited for an invitation.  They followed the law.  That alone should get them some respect.  

The Boers are entitled, by the UN definition and our own US definition, to refugee status.  Others who would meet the requirements would be those Afghanis who were helping the United States in the Afghan conflict.  They, too, should be protected.  Anyone who can make a reasonable claim of refugee status is welcome to apply - whether from Africa, South America, Asia or Europe.  The problem with the illegal migrants is that they don’t make such claims, they don’t apply - they simply enter illegally and then many of them proceed to commit violent crimes within our borders.  The Boers or Afrikaners who are the object of this hatred are families - men, women, children, not masses of military age men, not cartels, not gangsters.  Of course anyone who seeks asylum here should not only qualify as refugees but also be vetted so as to avoid bringing violent criminals into our midst.  

The climate of abject and pointless hate being ginned up in South Africa would be enough, but the gangs that are practicing these atrocities against white farmers there are matter-of-fact organizations who employ farm workers to facilitate the attacks against their legitimate farmer employers - paid to betray them.  [The documentary linked here was aired in 2018.  The genocide has been going on for a long time in South Africa.]  There is no doubt at all that the people in America who are objecting to giving safe haven to Boer farmers who have nothing left in their own homeland would see these acts of violence and hate as more than sufficient to demonstrate in favor of asylum - IF these victims were anything but white.  White people, according to them, cannot be discriminated against, cannot be victims.  But we know that throughout history white people have been victims of hate - we have seen the Huguenots killed because they were not Catholic, Irish Catholics starved to death because they were.  We have seen the genocide of Jews by Hitler, we have seen the genocide of Armenians by the Turkish.  Stalin starved and killed the Ukrainians. The Bolsheviks murdered the Kulaks. The CCP is murdering Uyghurs, Christians and adherents of Falun Gong.  Of course white and other non-black people can be victims of persecution, of murder and torture.  The objections here in America, whether they come from white leftists or black or hispanic haters are pure and simple racism.  It can be nothing else.  

Here is one way for these miserable and disgusting racists to look at this.  As stated previously, the entirety of the white population of South Africa comes to 4.5 million souls.  Perhaps the solution is to absorb every one of them who wishes to come and has been vetted sufficiently to protect our own national and personal security.   This would give the rogue South African government what it wants - no more white people.  Give them their country.  We already see that the South African economy is suffering since the takeover by black extremists.  It would be interesting to see how this would go without the hard work and skills of these Boers.  It’s fair.  Put South Africa to the test.

We have some idea if we look at the experience of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).  Known throughout the world as the “Jewel of Africa”, Rhodesia was a first-world nation with a booming economy based on mining, farming and industry.  Blacks were benefiting from this as well as whites, and black literacy was at 95%.  Comparing this with virtually any other nation on the continent, it was glaringly obvious that Rhodesia was a success.  But it was being successfully administered by a minority white government.  Blacks were not disenfranchised by reason of race but by reason of property ownership and other related matters, so they were admittedly underrepresented in government.  Rhodesia’s economy was so strong that, despite this, the black population was thriving - and many supported Ian Smith’s mostly white government for these reasons.  It was Britain under Harold Wilson that pulled the rug out from under this amazing nation.  Wilson’s government demanded a majority black government, Rhodesia said no.  They became the second nation to ever unilaterally declare independence from Britain, and for about nine years fought - alone - and although they proved to be as adept militarily as they were economically, the support of the Soviet Union for black leader Josua Nkomo and Chinese support for black leader Robert Mugabe was too much to overcome.  Interestingly, much as the Biden sanctions helped to beef up Russia’s independence and economy, the western world’s sanctions against Rhodesia brought about impetus for industry and economic independence.  Today Zimbabwe - the new name for Rhodesia - is a shambles following the corrupt government of Mugabe. As of 2023 the country, now led by corrupt black activists, was reeling under inflation of 315%.  The Zimbabwe solution to inflation was to print more and more money.   The Zimbabwe treasury actually printed trillion-dollar notes for distribution.  Coming back from this will be nearly impossible.  Let the ANC and South Africa experience this for themselves.  

When we look at black-led, post-colonial and post-white-led nations throughout Africa we find few, if any, examples of success to follow.  

The bare facts are these:  1) The government of South Africa is openly discriminating, indeed, confiscating the property of whites and offers no objection to their torture and murder.  In fact, government leaders are calling for it openly and vigorously.  2)  These Boer Afrikaners qualify for refugee status.  3)  The white Africans who are coming here are not a threat to our national security and are overwhelmingly likely to contribute to our society and not disrupt it - they speak English, they have skills, they want to live under our Constitution.  4)  Those who are objecting to this resettlement are undisguised racists.  If these people were black or other non-whites, they would not have any qualms at all - they openly admit this in so many words.  The Golden Door is open, as far as they are concerned, only to certain races, certain religions, and closed to others.  We need to call this out for what it is.

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