{"id":5134,"date":"2003-12-23T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-23T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:34:40","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:34:40","slug":"one-drop-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/23\/one-drop-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"“One drop” in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT THE WRITER HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE THE SAME “ONE DROP” MYTHS IN THEIR OWN WAY. IT’S INTERESTING HOW THIS ACCUSATION OF “BETRAYING” A FAMILY AND MAKING MOTHERS CRY IS ONLY MADE WHEN A MULTIRACIAL PERSON IS “RISING” FROM A NON-WHITE CASE TO A WHITE IDENTITY. NO SUCH HATRED OR RESENTMENT IS DIRECTED AGAINST THE “PURE” WHITE WHO REJECTS MIXED RELATIVES. IT’S TREATED AS ALMOST “NATURAL,” LIKE BAD WEATHER. THE HYSTERIA AGAINST “PASSING” IS JUST ANOTHER WAY TO PROMOTE THE MYTH OF WHITE RACIAL PURITY.<\/p>\n

‘Isidingo’ hits a raw nerve as it focuses on people switching racial identities during the apartheid era<\/a><\/p>\n

In the TV series the actors, like many whites, coloureds, blacks and Indians who were once victims of race classification, battle to come to terms with betraying their families and themselves, said Isidingo script writer, Collin Oliphant, who came up with the idea when he was reminded of a similar situation in his own family. <\/p>\n

“I remember my late grandmother once commented that someone looked rather dark to be coloured,” Oliphant said. <\/p>\n

Although not prepared to divulge details from his family, Oliphant recalled how the suicide of a white friend sparked rumours that he finally discovered that he had married a person of colour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IT’S CLEAR TO ME THAT THE WRITER HAS NO IDEA WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT. SOUTH AFRICANS HAVE THE SAME “ONE DROP” MYTHS IN THEIR OWN WAY. IT’S INTERESTING HOW THIS ACCUSATION OF “BETRAYING” A...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[121],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-biracial-and-multiracial"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1kO","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}