Abby Phillip said what needed to be said—and didn’t flinch. On CNN, Republican pundit Scott Jennings tried to center white South Africans as victims of “white genocide,” peddling a tired, racially-charged lie. But Phillip shut it down with one piercing question: “Why are you only concerned about white people?” For centuries, Black South Africans endured brutal, state-sanctioned violence under colonialism and apartheid. — Families ripped apart — Land stolen — Generations banned from basic rights — Tortured, killed, silenced—and the world barely blinked. Where was this outrage then? Now, suddenly, when whiteness feels threatened, here come the crocodile tears. Jennings and others want to rewrite history and flip the narrative—casting white South Africans as the true victims, while conveniently forgetting the actual genocide that Black people survived, resisted, and are still healing from. This isn’t concern—it’s racist revisionism dressed in moral panic. Abby Phillip put it plain: if your empathy only shows up when white people are uncomfortable, then it’s not empathy. It’s white supremacy doing PR.
