Architects of apartheid themselves descended from the mixed-race unions they suppressed

Evidence

Simon van der Stel, Dutch Governor of the Cape from 1692 and after whom the town and university of Stellenbosch came to be named, was the offspring of a Dutch father, himself commander of the island of Mauritius, and a mother in part Malay. The later legacy of these relationships included prominent Voortrekker and ultimately Nationalist Party leaders, the ancestors, architects, and sons of apartheid Afrikanerdom, bent on repressively excising memory of the darker side of their family heritage. The number of white Afrikaners with mixed race heritage today no doubt runs in the thousands, and has been estimated by Afrikaans demographers at about 6 or 7 percent of the ethnic group. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1321

Categorization

• XREF: Directly evidences threatened-privilege mobilization grounding status purity claims. — connects to: The architects of apartheid descended from the very racial mixing they later repressed. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1318; Apartheid’s architects descended from early Dutch-Khoi mixed marriages
• DEEPTHINKING: Might be strong material but check the depth

Broader Connections

• Apartheid’s architects descended from early Dutch-Khoi mixed marriages #corroborates (0.98)