President Donald Trump in the presence of Cyril Ramaphosa, the South African president, claimed that South African Whites were being killed in a genocide. What a genocide is, and what it is not, came to mind because I belong to CoAGG — Coalition Against Global Genocide, and host the podcast: “Never Again,” in which we regularly discuss global genocides: current, past, as well as future.

Trump’s staged Oval Office performances are now routine. He sets traps for leaders he dislikes or disrespects. The content of this particular occasion was totally erroneous; it sadly demonstrated that the most powerful man in the world could neither be a wise and just man, nor a man whose assistants could provide him with data of what is, or trustworthy information of what the plans for discussion or argument would be. The result is, America’s esteem in the world continues to dip. But Trump is insensitive to that given his America First vision.

In the end though, we believe in John 8:32, “And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

The video Musk provided Trump showed a line of white crosses alongside a South African rural road. We know the crosses represented a symbolic memorial erected for a 2020 protest of a White couple’s murder in a robbery. Not graves of Afrikaner-victims of a Black genocide. The thieves responsible for the murder were arrested and are serving a life sentence. There never was a Black-on-Afrikaner genocide in South Africa. Only a historical genocide of Blacks by Afrikaners during their 400-year sojourn in South Africa.

Trump could have spent the time with Ramaphosa learning something about apartheid and Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment. And for that matter, a bit about the continent of Africa. It is still a propitious moment for Americans at large to learn more about Africa.

Trump’s falsehood about South Africa gives me occasion to debunk another falsehood, this one about Kenya’s Mau Mau fighters, who, the British government and media portrayed as bloodthirsty devils, who wantonly massacred White Christian settlers.

Between 1952 and 1960, Black Kenyans fought the British Army and White settlers to retake land Africans owned before its forceful expropriation by the British. They renamed it, “The Kenya White Highlands.” Kikuyu fighters were mostly armed with machetes and spears; 30 Whites died while over 30,000 Blacks were killed by the British. But to hear the false British press and government chorus: Black terrorists rampaged, and committed the most heinous crimes on peace-loving white settlers.

The truth is, in addition to the dead, 5 million Kenyans were brutalized; victims of macabre cruelty, disfigured with electric prods among other forms of torture. The British erected concentration camps in Kenya where the treatment of prisoners was worse than what Nazis in concentration camps meted on their captives. The catch is: the British, like Boer propaganda, whitewashed the truth.

Boers settled in South Africa in 1650s and ruled alone until the Cape of Good Hope became a British property, forcing Boers to trek to the interior to form Transvaal and Orange Free State — both committed to apartheid’s racial segregation. After gold and diamonds were discovered in South Africa, the two Boer states fought Field Marshal Kitchener and his British army in 1899-1902.

The Boers lost, ending their independence. With time they would slowly regain power. In 1948, the National Party won the election, and apartheid became the official policy of the government, and Afrikaner political control over Blacks was complete. Cheap Black labor fueled the economy while apartheid laws helped control and exploit the Black majority. Afrikaners’ nationalism and Calvinist beliefs were used to justify racial separation as morally and socially “natural.”

South African Blacks lived through hell under apartheid. But they fought back against a cruel Boer regime. Mandela’s ANC — African National Congress — forced the White regime to pay attention. Mandela was imprisoned at Robben Island until he was freed in 1994.

That was the end of the apartheid policy of the South African government.

Much to the chagrin of many Blacks who suffered under and fought against apartheid, to this day Whites continue to live in luxury. Blacks’ 40% unemployment and grinding poverty in the face of merciless Black ruling class corruption have robbed Black people of their 30-year-old dream of a better life. Rather than committing genocide, poor South Africans seek nourishment and a better life.

Pius Kamau, M.D., a retired general surgeon, is president of the Aurora-based Africa America Higher Education Partnerships; co-founder of the Africa Enterprise Group and an activist for minority students ‘STEM education. He is a National Public Radio commentator, a Huffington Post blogger, a past columnist for Denver dailies and is featured on the podcast, “Never Again.”