Posted on 03/15/2025 10:46:35 AM PDT by RandFan
The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing him as a "race-baiting politician".
In a post on X, Rubio accused Ebrahim Rasool of hating the US and President Donald Trump, and said the ambassador was "no longer welcome in our great country".
The office for South Africa's president on Saturday called the decision "regrettable", adding that the country remained committed to building a mutually beneficial relationship with the US.
The rare move by the US marks the latest development in rising tensions between the two countries.
While lower-ranking diplomats are sometimes expelled, it's highly unusual in the US for it to happen to a more senior official.
In his post on Friday, Rubio linked to an article from the right-wing outlet Breitbart that quoted some of Rasool's recent remarks made during an online lecture about the Trump administration.
At the event, Rasool said Trump was "mobilising a supremacism" and trying to "project white victimhood as a dog whistle" as the white population faced becoming a minority in the US.
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Not exactly a recipe, for winning friends and influencing people.
Rachel Looker who wrote this crap for BBC News should be expelled too if she’s not an American.
Communist, racist, mass murderers expelled. Well yes.
I did a perplexity search, and could not find anything, about where that wench was born.
The ANC is a corrupt, one-party, genocidal marxist dinosaur of the Soviet era
US policy should be their removal from power.
That obnoxious racist has no reason to be here.
“That obnoxious racist has no reason to be here”
There goes his open invitation to Ivy League Dinner party’s. Caviar, Filet Mignon and King Crab are off the menu, how do do you like your Gazelle cooked, scumbag?
Giving the bum’s rush to bad rubbish!
Hey, you limeys at the BBC, Breitbart is a CONSERVATIVE media outlet, not a “right-wing” outlet.
And make sure you spray his wake with Lysol when he leaves. Ugh!
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