Making America Racist Again

Since October 2025, 4,499 refugees were resettled in the US, according to the Refugee Processing Center. All, except three from Afghanistan, were South African. In 2025 Trump halted all refugee admissions, including for applicants from warzones, but allowed Afrikaners, a white... TAT: [Nationalism]

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— Trump Action Tracker (@trumpactiontracker.bsky.social) April 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM

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emaycee

 

Sometimes karma comes through

Millionaire American trophy hunter Asher Watkins, 52, was gored to death on the horns of a buffalo he tried to kill on a trip to South Africa.

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— Bruno J. Navarro (@brunojnavarro.bsky.social) August 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM

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Lying Trump using fake photos--who'd have ever guessed?

Unreal: To sustain his lie about a "genocide" of "white farmers" while meeting with the South African president, Trump used a photo of war deaths in the Democratic Republic of Congo. I looked into this a bit more. It's worse than it first appeared. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1956...

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— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) May 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Trump letting his racist flag fly

President Trump argued with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa over Trump's false claims of mass killings of Afrikaners during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday. Ramaphosa sought to explain the reality in his nation, pushing back on Trump's amplification of fringe theories.

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— The New York Times (@nytimes.com) May 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM

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Trump is importing racists

“The Trump administration welcomed white South African refugees into the U.S. on Monday, the same day it announced it is ending deportation protections for refugees from Afghanistan.”

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— Resistbot (@resist.bot) May 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM

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So much winning

Our trade deal so far is no tariffs on Rolls Royces and Bentleys and our refugee policy is white South Africans only.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) May 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM

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The apartheid nazi

Elon posted his MAGA hat which uses the Fraktur font, popular in nazi Germany. He wore this at a rally meant to evoke the 1939 nazi rally at Madison Square Garden.

He's telling you who he is. pic.twitter.com/TJzyBF0MLk

— Alejandra Caraballo is on Bluesky/Threads (@Esqueer_) October 28, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

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emaycee

 

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out

Bro you can always just pack up your shit and move back home to South Africa pic.twitter.com/rIW4R5ztDs

— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) October 2, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

 

Like ending his government contracts, pronto

Elon Musk is letting Russia use Starlink to control its drones.

He’s aiding and abetting our enemies.

That’s literally the definition of treason.

Somebody should really do something about that.

— The USA Singers (@TheUSASingers) September 25, 2024

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Just shocked the guy from South Africa is a traitor

Elon Musk last year secretly ordered SpaceX engineers to switch off the Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast in order to thwart a Ukrainian surprise attack on Russia’s naval fleet, according to Walter Isaacson’s upcoming Musk biography. pic.twitter.com/uPto8hm1pW

— The Recount (@therecount) September 7, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

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emaycee

 

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDXLVIII--Gregory Alan Isakov: Saint Valentine

 This week's tune is another recommended by my darling daughter, though it took a while for the song to catch my fancy--but once it did, it quickly became a fave.  As I was doing my half-assed research this week, I noticed that Nathaniel Rateliff, whose song "S.O.B." (great tune, too) was recommended to me by my oldest son, had provided backing vocals on this week's featured album.  So you might say that this week's post is a family affair....

Gregory Alan Isakov was born in South Africa in 1979, and his family moved to the U.S. in 1986, settling in Philadelphia.  Isakov began playing in bands at the age of sixteen, and eventually moved to Colorado to study horticulture at Naropa University.  He continued playing gigs while supporting himself as a gardener and self-released his first album in 2003.  Isakov would self-release his next three LPs before starting his own label in 2013.  His 2019 album Evening Machines was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album.  For his career, Isakov has released seven studio albums and one live album.  While not a household name, Isakov has been making a living as a musician for twenty years now which has to be at least as enjoyable as gardening....

"Saint Valentine" was on Isakov's meteorologically named 2013 release, The Weatherman.  The song was not released as a single, and the album did not hit the Billboard 200.

Every now and again a song continues to get more enjoyable with each listen, and this week's tune is one such example.  Isakov weaves the tale of a love lost and the search for home, and his whimsical vocals don't let the heartfelt veer into the maudlin.  He has a nice touch with words--the lyrics are a cut above your standard pop fare, including a chat with the patron Saint of love, who gets told by the protagonist that he's "...all fucked up" (in fairness, on occasion St. Valentine is).  The acoustic guitar is lovely, the music is as sweet as it is hopeful, and all in all it's a terrific piece of folk pop--which is always a welcome listen for me....

Lyric Sheet:  "Well, Grace she's gone, she's a half-written poem/She went out for cigarettes and never came home/And I swallowed the sun and screamed and wailed/Straight down to the dirt so I could find her trail..."

Enjoy:

Republicans = Nazis

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Hitler would be so proud of Elon

 

Republicans = Losers

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He stood tall in the face of racism--will you?

'He was associated closely to the anti-apartheid struggle, along with Nelson Mandela, and did extraordinary work holding the white apartheid regime to account.'

Sky's @sparkomat remembers South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died aged 90https://t.co/jPWhtaGWnV pic.twitter.com/RBFWltOJQO

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 26, 2021

Republican = Racist

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CCLXVII--Peter Gabriel: Biko

I noted last week how easy it is to forget that rock and roll can sometimes be a lot of fun, but it's equally as easy to forget just how powerful it can be...as this week's song surely attests.

Peter Gabriel has had a long and successful career, beginning with his work as the lead singer for Genesis in 1967, and continuing on with his solo work from his departure from Genesis in 1975 to the present day.  As a solo artist, Gabriel has released nine albums, six of which hit the top ten in his native U.K., but only three of which have done the same here in the States.  He's also recorded four soundtracks, six live albums, and six compilation albums.  He's only had one single here in the U.S. to hit the top ten ("Sledgehammer"), but it went all the way to #1.  He's had three top ten singles in England.  For his career, Gabriel has won three Brit Awards, six Grammy Awards, 13 MTV Music Video Awards (the record), and been elected into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame both as a member of Genesis (2010) and as a solo artist (2014).  In addition to a highly successful music career, Gabriel has supported numerous political causes and humanitarian concerns including human rights, animal rights, anti-war, and left leaning politicians, as well as being a leading advocate for world music.  There's actually a lot more, but I only have a paragraph....

"Biko" was released in 1980 on his third album, the ever so inventively titled, Peter Gabriel (more on that later).  It was never released as a single in the United States, but did hit #38 on the British charts.

Fun Fact:  Gabriel's first four albums were all titled...Peter Gabriel.   To differentiate them, they are referred to either as 1,2,3, or 4, or else by their album's cover picture Car, Scratch, Melt, or Security.  Fortunately for Gabriel, clever LP titles are not a requirement for rock and roll success.

For those not familiar, "Biko" is a eulogy for Steve Biko, an anti-apartheid activist who was beat to death while in the custody of South African state security services for his political activities on September 12, 1977.  Over 20,000 people attended his funeral, and his death was a catalyst for many of the struggles to come in South Africa.  While there are parts of the song that almost read like a newspaper article, in the end, all you need is to listen to Gabriel chant Biko's name with the triumphant drums echoing the strength and power of one man--it's a call to arms and a rousing exaltation of the man and his aspirations for black South Africans.  Gabriel uses lyrics from South African songs that were played at Biko's funeral, and to me it gives the song an almost hymnal quality.   In the end, Gabriel's paean for Steve Biko is an inspiring tribute to a man who gave his life for racial justice, and is a plea to all of our better angels.

Lyric Sheet:  Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko..."

Enjoy:

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