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Amanda

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We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

It is so clearly not about protecting our borders or reducing immigration. It is so clearly about protecting whiteness, this entire conspiracy that is happening right now. the juxtaposition should alarm everyone. And it's based on complete bullshit. I mean, Donald Trump is surrounded by so many South Africans. This is the home of apartheid.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This is the place where white people make up 7% of the South African population, but own at least half of of South African land. This is the place where apartheid, which set the rules about whether you could vote, whether you could play sports, whether you could do a skilled trade, whether you're allowed to travel, whether you could go to the hospital, depended on the color of your skin until

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This is the place where white people make up 7% of the South African population, but own at least half of of South African land. This is the place where apartheid, which set the rules about whether you could vote, whether you could play sports, whether you could do a skilled trade, whether you're allowed to travel, whether you could go to the hospital, depended on the color of your skin until

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

This is the place where white people make up 7% of the South African population, but own at least half of of South African land. This is the place where apartheid, which set the rules about whether you could vote, whether you could play sports, whether you could do a skilled trade, whether you're allowed to travel, whether you could go to the hospital, depended on the color of your skin until

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

31 years ago, and they still own half the land, even though they represent 7% of the people, the actual police statistics show that they are not any more vulnerable to violence, white people, than any other population. And they fare far better on every single economic indicia than any other population in South Africa.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

31 years ago, and they still own half the land, even though they represent 7% of the people, the actual police statistics show that they are not any more vulnerable to violence, white people, than any other population. And they fare far better on every single economic indicia than any other population in South Africa.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

31 years ago, and they still own half the land, even though they represent 7% of the people, the actual police statistics show that they are not any more vulnerable to violence, white people, than any other population. And they fare far better on every single economic indicia than any other population in South Africa.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And Trump has identified these people as his heroes and these people as his identified victims. I mean, I just spent 10 days in South Africa and went to the Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for, you know, his total imprisonment was 30 years for seeking justice. I mean, this is fresh. The fact that we are identifying South Africa as the place to sow justice

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And Trump has identified these people as his heroes and these people as his identified victims. I mean, I just spent 10 days in South Africa and went to the Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for, you know, his total imprisonment was 30 years for seeking justice. I mean, this is fresh. The fact that we are identifying South Africa as the place to sow justice

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And Trump has identified these people as his heroes and these people as his identified victims. I mean, I just spent 10 days in South Africa and went to the Robben Island where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for, you know, his total imprisonment was 30 years for seeking justice. I mean, this is fresh. The fact that we are identifying South Africa as the place to sow justice

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The fear of white America about the retribution that is coming for the injustices that we have perpetrated against the people in our land is alarming and it's revealing. It's thou doth protest too much. People need to pay attention to the parallels and really see this for what it is, that it has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with white people's fears.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The fear of white America about the retribution that is coming for the injustices that we have perpetrated against the people in our land is alarming and it's revealing. It's thou doth protest too much. People need to pay attention to the parallels and really see this for what it is, that it has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with white people's fears.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

The fear of white America about the retribution that is coming for the injustices that we have perpetrated against the people in our land is alarming and it's revealing. It's thou doth protest too much. People need to pay attention to the parallels and really see this for what it is, that it has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with white people's fears.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And it's not even true. They're not even subject to more violence. They are a symbol of, uh-oh, if there is any kind of pushback against white power and white supremacy, which by definition, the elimination of apartheid is, then you people are necessarily victims. Like, it's not even true. When apartheid was ended, they negotiated a peace, which they should be so lucky that Mandela and the

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And it's not even true. They're not even subject to more violence. They are a symbol of, uh-oh, if there is any kind of pushback against white power and white supremacy, which by definition, the elimination of apartheid is, then you people are necessarily victims. Like, it's not even true. When apartheid was ended, they negotiated a peace, which they should be so lucky that Mandela and the

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And it's not even true. They're not even subject to more violence. They are a symbol of, uh-oh, if there is any kind of pushback against white power and white supremacy, which by definition, the elimination of apartheid is, then you people are necessarily victims. Like, it's not even true. When apartheid was ended, they negotiated a peace, which they should be so lucky that Mandela and the

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

ANC didn't actually seek justice. What they sought was a peace. And the negotiation was, hey, remember when 7% of the people had 100% of the power and at that time, well more than 50% of the land. We're going to undo that arbitrary system of violence and corruption. And it was negotiated that the land would be transferred back to the people to whom it belonged.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

ANC didn't actually seek justice. What they sought was a peace. And the negotiation was, hey, remember when 7% of the people had 100% of the power and at that time, well more than 50% of the land. We're going to undo that arbitrary system of violence and corruption. And it was negotiated that the land would be transferred back to the people to whom it belonged.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

ANC didn't actually seek justice. What they sought was a peace. And the negotiation was, hey, remember when 7% of the people had 100% of the power and at that time, well more than 50% of the land. We're going to undo that arbitrary system of violence and corruption. And it was negotiated that the land would be transferred back to the people to whom it belonged.

We Can Do Hard Things
Inside Trump’s Personal Profits: His Abuse of Power for Private Deals & Who is Paying the Price | Jessica Yellin & Amanda

And it has been 31 years and that hasn't been done. The people of South Africa have waited 31 years for a semblance, a taste of of what should have happened then, and they have gotten zero of it. And now that it looks like we are actually going to buy back the land that you should never have had, colonizers, Afrikaners, suddenly we care about justice? It's absolute insanity.