The Root article on her.
Her quote of being 'biracial"
“I think for us, it’s very different because we’re light-skinned,” Markle said to Carey. “You’re not treated as a Black woman. You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in-between.” She then goes into further detail about how marrying into the royal family exposed her to a sort of racism she hadn’t experienced before."
This is complete utter bullshit. White supremacy played a great 3D chess move telling essentially black people who are mixed that they were not black and held out a carrot that you could be white...maybe but you are a buffer class, not black..but not quite white, like other buffer groups (Latinos, Arabs, etc).
Blacks who are half anything were always black when I was a kid. Yeah, you'd be asked what are you mixed with but you were black. Especially if you lived in a black area. I grew up with a few kids who were half white, a few half latino and 1 or 2 half Asian. They were black. Society treated them as such, we treated them as such.
I got into it once with someone who tried to play that I ain't black thing, I'm biracial. I asked them is Frederick Douglas black? --- Yes. Is Bob Marley black? --- Yes. Then you black because BOTH got white fathers.
Way back in the day, the DJ for 2 Live crew, Asian facial features, regarded as black. Hines Ward, black and korean. White supremacy started telling half black people they are a different category. When Meghan Markle says she's not black, she's not white. Its white people saying that. Black folks have never told half black people they aren't black. Ever. Halle Berry was never told she was not black. She was celebrated for her Oscar as a black woman. The women seem to have way more issues than the men. My guess is girls need to be accepted early on. Boys not as much.
The real issue for biracials? White people won't accept them as white. White people have accepted half latinos (Ted Cruz), half Asians as white (Keanu Reeves). Andrew Tate is part black. He lived in America as a white boy. He talks about his black father only after he's made his money. In England he would be like Meghan Markle, black. In America he passed. He only fairly recently brought up his black ancestry.
Meghan Markle Enjoyed The Perks Of Light-Skinned Privilege--That Is, Until She Couldn't
As Don Lemon recently pointed out, it's "shocking" that Markle finally understands what it means to be treated as a Black woman.
Her quote of being 'biracial"
“I think for us, it’s very different because we’re light-skinned,” Markle said to Carey. “You’re not treated as a Black woman. You’re not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in-between.” She then goes into further detail about how marrying into the royal family exposed her to a sort of racism she hadn’t experienced before."
This is complete utter bullshit. White supremacy played a great 3D chess move telling essentially black people who are mixed that they were not black and held out a carrot that you could be white...maybe but you are a buffer class, not black..but not quite white, like other buffer groups (Latinos, Arabs, etc).
Blacks who are half anything were always black when I was a kid. Yeah, you'd be asked what are you mixed with but you were black. Especially if you lived in a black area. I grew up with a few kids who were half white, a few half latino and 1 or 2 half Asian. They were black. Society treated them as such, we treated them as such.
I got into it once with someone who tried to play that I ain't black thing, I'm biracial. I asked them is Frederick Douglas black? --- Yes. Is Bob Marley black? --- Yes. Then you black because BOTH got white fathers.
Way back in the day, the DJ for 2 Live crew, Asian facial features, regarded as black. Hines Ward, black and korean. White supremacy started telling half black people they are a different category. When Meghan Markle says she's not black, she's not white. Its white people saying that. Black folks have never told half black people they aren't black. Ever. Halle Berry was never told she was not black. She was celebrated for her Oscar as a black woman. The women seem to have way more issues than the men. My guess is girls need to be accepted early on. Boys not as much.
The real issue for biracials? White people won't accept them as white. White people have accepted half latinos (Ted Cruz), half Asians as white (Keanu Reeves). Andrew Tate is part black. He lived in America as a white boy. He talks about his black father only after he's made his money. In England he would be like Meghan Markle, black. In America he passed. He only fairly recently brought up his black ancestry.