Episcopal Church: 'We Can't Be Ourselves' and Help Resettle White South Africans

The New York Times

You can't make this crap up, can you?

After decades of "partnering with"--read "getting big bucks from"--the federal government to aid with the resettlement of refugees, the Episcopal Church has decided that it can no longer do so because...they were asked to help resettle white people. 

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The reasons they cite? Their longstanding commitment to racial justice and connections to the South African Anglicans, including Desmond Tutu, a key player in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was intended to prevent the kind of racial violence that is now rife in the country. 

Beege wrote about this bizarre story yesterday, and neither of us can wrap our heads around the thinking of these people. 

Trump has opened the door to, so far, fewer than 60 South Africans who are without question facing political and racial violence--massacres of white farmers and state-sponsored expropriation of land--and the entire left has gone insane. As South African leaders sing about killing exactly these people, the left blathers on about "social justice" as if "justice" means mass murder. 

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As, apparently, they do think. Israelis get massacred, and the left flocks to Hamas. Luigi Mangione stalks and kills an innocent man, and the left raises money for him and laughs about how sexy and moral he is. Tren de Aragua and MS 13 invade the country and the Episcopal and Catholic Churches rush to resettle them in Middle America. 

The standard that the left has adopted is clear: there is an intersectional ladder of victims, and white people belong on the bottom and need to be punished for their sin of existing. 

Trump's resettlement of white South African farmers is hardly "Operation Paperclip," in which Nazi scientists were resettled and rehabilitated in the United States because we wanted their skills. None of these families were part of the apartheid regime, which is now decades in the past. 

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Their sin is singular: they are white, and their oppressors are black. If the skin colors were reversed, the Episcopal Church and every person now protesting this move would be bending over backward to highlight their plight and move heaven and earth to help them. 

It should be remarkable that a church would cite skin color as its reason to turn its back on people in need, but it no longer is. The left is and has been for years as explicitly racist as any KKK member, and openly so. 

The entire left-wing is mobilized to ensure that literal rapists and murderers who snuck into our country to commit crimes are guaranteed the right to resettle in the United States, they will move heaven and earth to deny people who are being hunted the right to live in peace just because of the color of their skin. 

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Is it any wonder that there is a growing racial identity movement among some white people--one that troubles me deeply because it feels like a huge step backward for everybody in their country. Spend enough time telling people that you hate them due to the color of their skin, and they will begin to defend themselves based on the color of their skin. 

Racism of any kind is wrong and stupid, not to mention illiberal. Unfortunately, people are being forced into their racial corners because the left wants it that way. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | May 13, 2025
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