For Trump, Civil Rights Protections Should Help White Men

Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom.

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South Africa Sets the Stage for Starlink Approval

A proposed regulatory change would allow Elon Musk’s satellite company and others like it to get a license without having to sell shares to Black South Africans.

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Trump Makes False Genocide Claims. South Africans Respond With Humor.

The jokes mask a deep-seated anger over the legacy of apartheid and the inequality that many Black people say continues to define life in their country.

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Who Is Julius Malema, the South African Politician in the White House Video?

President Trump surprised a South African delegation with a video montage of apartheid-era chants from Mr. Malema.

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Trump Casts Himself as a Protector of Persecuted White People

President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.

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Trump to Press Ramaphosa to Pare Back Racial Equity Laws

In a White House meeting, the U.S. president is expected to point to alleged discrimination against white South Africans, a week after welcoming a group of them as refugees.

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The Road to Trump’s Embrace of White South Africans

The Trump administration’s hostile approach to South Africa was shaped by a convergence of factors.

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Trump Welcomes White South African Refugees as He Shuts Out Afghans and Others

The Trump administration carved out an exception to its refugee ban for white South Africans. But other groups, including Afghans who helped U.S. forces during the war in their country, are being deported.

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Afrikaners Arrive in U.S. as Trump-Approved Refugees

The first group of Afrikaners have arrived in the United States, claiming they were victims of persecution or had reason to fear persecution in their home country.

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White South Africans Granted Refugee Status by Trump Arrive in the U.S.

President Trump had halted essentially refugee admissions on his first day in office before creating a pathway for Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority that ruled during apartheid.

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