Session #99 · 1985–87

Speech #990064713

Perhaps It is not chic. What about Angola. whose rulers would not last a day without their Cuban army. a puppet regime and as cruelly and oppressive a regime as the world has ever seen. a regime from which blacks flee to go to live and work in South Africa. Let me ask the distinguished members of the Foreign Relations Committee why they threaten economic sanctions not on the countries which black refugees flee from but on the one country that the black refugees flee to. It is proper in some circles in Washington to have sympathy with people who find Communist tyranny intolerable and become refugees. But surely the sponsors of this bill are not so far removed from their immigrant roots to wholly despise the judgment of the black masses of people who walk over thousands of miles to get to South Africa from neighboring black tyrannies. Why do the Senators reserve their righteous anger for the one country in black Africa that has a record of net in migration of blacks? Why do they consider the judgment of our most radicalchic Members superior to those of masses of blacks who vote with their feet in favor of that very. very flawed South Africa?
Keywords matched
immigrant refugees

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Mixed
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
80%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Humanitarian Victim

Speaker & context

Speaker
MALCOLM WALLOP
Party
R
Chamber
S
State
WY
Gender
M
Date
1985-07-10
Speech ID
990064713
Paragraph
#0
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