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The Don Lemon Show

LEMON DROP | An American Apartheid?!

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump is on a deportation spree, shipping out refugees from across the globe, often without due process. But somehow, white South African farmers are being welcomed with open arms. Wonder why? (Spoiler: it’s racism.) To break down what’s really happening in South Africa and where this “white genocide” myth came from, Don sits down with Simon Allison, co-founder of The Continent and one of the smartest voices covering the region. They unpack the dangerous misinformation fueling U.S. immigration policy, what the data actually says (hint: there is NO white genocide), and how South Africa’s complex challenges are being twisted to serve far-right fantasies. It’s time to separate fact from fear-mongering and call out the hypocrisy for what it is. This episode is brought to you by the Freedom From Religion Foundation. Go to FFRF.US/Freedom or text DON to 511 511 and become a member today. This episode of The Don Lemon Show is sponsored by 120 Life. Go to https://120life.com and use the code, “D-O-N ” to save 20% This episode is brought to you by Beam. Visit https://shopbeam.com/LEMON and use code LEMON to get our exclusive discount of up to 40% off. This episode of The Don Lemon Show is sponsored by Wild Alaskan. Go to wildalaskan.com/LEMON for $35 off your first box of premium, wild-caught seafood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.6

He's allowing white South African farmersers, as a matter of fact, he's allowing white

0:55.0

South African farmers, giving them a fast track to come into the country. They're claiming that

1:02.0

they are victims of, quote, unjust racial discrimination and genocide. As a matter of fact, I

1:08.4

spoke to, I'm going to play this before I bring in my next guest, I spoke to Elon Musk about this a year ago.

1:13.8

He brought it up on his own. I was surprised. Here it is. South Africa, I mean, look at what happened with apartheid.

1:19.1

You should, it seems to me that you should be someone who is more understanding of that, considering where you came from, considering your history.

1:29.3

Yeah. There's a slow white genocide going on in South Africa. Do you care about that?

1:34.3

So that was Elon Musk a year ago saying there was a slow white genocide going on in South

1:37.9

Africa and asking me if I care about it. So what is going on here? Is there any truth to that?

1:41.4

Is it a racist conspiracy or fear-mongering? What is it?

1:45.8

So to get to the bottom of this, I wanted to speak to an expert, someone who can actually report

1:49.6

on what's going on in South Africa, and that is Simon Allison, the co-founder of the

1:55.1

Contentant Magazine based in Johannesburg. Thank you for joining us.

2:00.1

Hi, they're done. So when you hear that,

2:04.8

and Donald Trump, our president here in the United States, also claiming that, is there a white

2:11.9

genocide going on in South Africa? And if not, where is this notion coming from?

2:17.6

Well, Don, if there is a slow genocide of white people going on in South Africa, as Elon Musk claims,

2:25.3

it is very, very, very slow. I wrote some statistics down. One, that's the number of farmers that were killed in the last quarter of last year in South Africa.

2:40.3

And of course, all this has to do with the alleged persecution and violence against white Afrikaner farmers that is apparently such a scourge in our society that the United

2:51.9

States is having to sort of bend all its rules, hire private planes to bring these persecuted

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