Veteran TV talk show host Felicia Mabuza-Suttle has taken to social media to talk about her life growing up during apartheid after MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid compared the Donald Trump administration to that of the National Party.
Mabuza-Suttle posted a video on her social media account in which Reid said that Trump was turning the US into apartheid South Africa.
"This brought back memories of growing up as a little girl in South Africa, traumatised by police arresting black men, including my father and uncle, and walking them for hours handcuffed in pairs, as they rounded up neighbourhoods asking men for Pass Books."
She said growing up she often told her brother and sister she was happy she was not a man, and so she would not be arrested for a Pass Book which every person of colour needed to carry.
"To this day, those memories remain indelible in my mind. I remember seeing black men thrown into the back of a police van. I can still hear that deafening knock on the door, in the middle of the night, from the Afrikaner police shouting, 'Open the door, police, Pass!'"
She now lives in an upscale neighbourhood in Atlanta, Georgia, but said she did not leave the house without her driver's licence, for fear of being stopped by the police. "Ironically, I feel safer taking my walks in Miami. My black neighbour in Atlanta recently told me that she was stopped by a policeman, who doubted she lived in this 'upscale neighbourhood'. The policeman asked for her driver's licence. This is the new America under Trump. I am reliving apartheid under Trump," she said
She claimed some of the former white South Africans who live in Atlanta, who emigrated to the US, are staunch supporters of Trump and his ideology. "Ironically, I found out that some of the former white South Africans who live in Atlanta, who migrated to the US, are staunch supporters of #Trumpism and proudly support #DonaldTrump," she said.
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