The great white dope

"Wherever a rich white man is being oppressed, I'll be there," Tom Joad didn't say ever.  Fortunately there is Donald Trump, who has ordered his secretary of  state to investigate the white genocide that is not happening in South Africa.  (After nearly two years, the United States has no ambassador to South Africa.)

Some facts:  A generation after the end of apartheid, white people make up eight percent of the South African population but own 72 percent of the agricultural land.  All major political parties agree that land reform is urgently needed, and President Cyril Ramaphosa wants to amend the constitution to allow for confiscation (think "eminent domain" land grabs for, oh, let's say a wall on the Mexican border).  Egged on by Fox News instead of reliable information, Trump is worried about the "large-scale killing of [white] farmers"; actually, the murder of farmers is at a twenty-year low.  From today's Guardian:

  "Trump's intervention was the first time he has tweeted the word 'Africa' since he became president.     Instead of myriad political, economic and security issues that he could have addressed, he
    offered support to the tiny population of white people on the continent."

I wonder why that is.