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Billionaire businessman Johann Rupert, also an Afrikaner, pointed out that the highest murder rate in South Africa was in the townships of Cape Town, where most residents are black or coloured - as mixed-race people are known in South Africa - and are at the mercy of violent gangs.

But Rowling’s series was already imperfect long before she went public with her anti-trans bigotry: her writing of mixed-race and non-white characters is clunky to say the least; the goblin characters are obvious and offensive Jewish stereotypes; and there’s an Asian character named Cho Chang — and that’s just scratching the surface.

Vargas Llosa’s social position — as part of the well-to-do, fair-skinned, Spanish-speaking elite — also raised questions about how he would govern a country made up largely of Indigenous people and mixed-race mestizos.

“One Jewish Boy,” which is making its West Coast debut in an Echo Theater Company production at Atwater Village Theatre, wrestles with the burden of antisemitism in the relationship between a young Jewish man and a mixed-race woman.

Akpoti-Uduaghan first ran for governor of Kogi state in 2019 and alleged that her candidacy was challenged over her mixed-race heritage.