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That was literally my first thought, too. This is not some random African country that threw off its oppressors after WWII. This is *South Africa, where the oppressors held on until the 1990s. Here's a leader from a country whose racial reconciliation we still haven't come close to replicating, and President ~~Musk~~ Trump thinks the country is too unfair to white people.