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South African ambassador expelled from US welcomed home with support
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Ebrahim Rasool, the South African ambassador, was expelled from the United States by the Trump administration and declared persona non grata. Rasool and his wife, Rosieda, returned home to a welcoming crowd, who sang songs in his praise. Upon arrival, Rasool expressed defiance towards the decision, stating that a declaration of persona non grata is meant to humiliate.
We cannot sacrifice the Palestinians… but we will also not give up with our relationship with the United States. We must fight for it, but we must keep our dignity.
But when you return to crowds like this, and with warmth … like this, then I will wear my persona non grata as a badge of dignity.
We don't come here to say we are anti-American.
The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the Maga movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white.
It is not the US of Obama, it is not the US of Clinton, it is a different US and therefore our language must change.
I would stand by my analysis because we were analysing a political phenomenon, not a personality, not a nation, and not even a government.
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- 1.US Foreign Policy
- 2.US under Donald Trump
- 3.US Politics
- 4.Ethnic tensions
- 5.South African politics
- 6.South Africa under Cyril Ramaphosa
- 7.Violence in South Africa
- 8.US-South Africa Relations
