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When white South African refugees<\/a> enter the United States in the coming weeks, they reportedly can expect a special treat: a gift bag containing an Android tablet, copies of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, and an American flag. Oh, and one more perk: literature that argues white people in South Africa and the U.S. are victims of discrimination — and that the U.S. Civil Rights Movement was misguided.<\/p>\n

That’s the plan that’s being finalized in the Trump administration, according to a new story from The New York Times<\/a>which cites government documents and an official familiar with the matter, and observes that welcome gifts of this kind are “unusual.” These welcome bags are a brazen expression of white nationalism. And remarkably, they represent the White House doing exactly what MAGA conspiracy theorists love to (ludicrously) accuse<\/a> the left of trying to do: Use immigration policy to boost its political fortunes.<\/p>\n

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Literature reportedly included in the bags encourages incoming Afrikaners to align themselves culturally and politically with the MAGA movement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n
According to the Times, the bags are expected to include a letter that reads, “The Trump administration understands America’s immigration system must put the U.S. citizen first, and only welcome in those who will assimilate into the American way of life and preserve our borders, language, culture, traditions and ideals.”<\/p>\n
The president and his administration have long made it clear that Afrikaners are virtually the only people<\/a> who fit the White House’s criteria. At a Turning Point USA event in April, Trump boasted,<\/a> “We suspended all refugee resettlement — except for persecuted South Africans.” And Trump has said that the people in South Africa being “persecuted” are Africans<\/a> — basing his claim on white nationalist disinformation<\/a> that a “white genocide<\/a>” is being perpetrated in South Africa.<\/p>\n
Singling out this population, amid all the people enduring wars and serious persecution around the world, was in and of itself a white nationalist salvo. But the letter, combined with other texts and booklets planned for the bag, take it to another level.<\/p>\n
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Other literature reportedly included in the bags encourages incoming Afrikaners to align themselves culturally and politically with the MAGA movement. According to the Times, the plan is for the bags to include “several products from PragerU, which produces right-wing educational materials, such as a story about a Black South African who must protect a white rugby teammate from a Black mob.” That story describes Nelson Mandela, the legendary anti-apartheid activist and South Africa’s first post-apartheid president, as a “South African lawyer and activist who sought to end apartheid with acts of sabotage.” It also says that the South African government in the post-apartheid era has “made race relations even worse.”<\/p>\n
The Times reports that the administration also plans to include a report by Trump’s 1776 Commission<\/a>which “likens progressivism to fascism, and says Americans were being indoctrinated with a false critique of the nation’s founding and identity, including the role of slavery.” The report says the Civil Rights Movement “was almost immediately turned to programs that ran counter to the lofty ideals of the founders.”<\/p>\n
Remarkably, Trump’s white nationalist goodie bags would help inaugurate a right-wing version of the right’s own racist “great replacement” conspiracy theory.<\/a> That evidence-free theory holds that Democrats favor immigration as a way to “replace” the local population with meek immigrants who will (for some reason) vote as a bloc in favor of Democrats. Now it seems the Trump administration is angling to create a new bloc of immigrants who help support right-wing ideologies and political goals — to the exclusion of all other populations.<\/p>\n
The planned white nationalist goodie bags make it clear that Trump is <\/em>willing to welcome foreigners with welcome arms. They just need to look and think a certain way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Zeeshan Aleem is a writer and editor for MS NOW. He primarily writes about politics and foreign policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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