Early last year, he began his government's first term by apologising to the "stolen generations": children, many of mixed race, taken by the authorities from aboriginal families.
In the third season Karin Kortje, a soul singer who in South Africa is considered colored, or mixed race, took the title, belting out Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston numbers.
Lela, who is also mixed race, also took a liking to the petite Barbie.
The idea is that the kind of people who are terrified at the idea of having mixed race grandchildren should take to the streets to warn other white people about what they think are attempts to systematically exterminate the white race.
Grime matters because it's a timely metaphor for our mixed-race society, taking influences from many cultures yet managing to sound utterly, resolutely, determinedly British.
The race took its toll on him.
His words, contained in an Australian parliamentary motion, were directed to the "stolen generations" - the tens of thousands of mixed-race children taken from their families in a strategy of white assimilation only abandoned in 1970.
For so much more from Jones, including her discussion of coming from a mixed race background and her take on political activism, click over to The Advocate.
Even Mr. Achmat, who is of mixed race, acknowledges that he should be taking antiretrovirals.
Growing up mixed race with my mom's Pakistani family, I suddenly took on the full heaviness of being black.
