Posted on 05/21/2018 2:49:37 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
My father is Black, and my mother is Puerto Rican. As a biracial woman, I'm very familiar with questions like, "What are you?" "But what do you consider yourself?" and insinuations of "But is she really Black?" And as much as I wish I could say this type of thinking was unique to my childhood or some less-progressive era long ago, it's something I still deal with today. Yup, in 2018. For some people, regardless of their race (and sometimes even my own friends and family) it's apparently very difficult to understand the concept that a person can proudly embrace and claim two cultures and races with open arms. But obviously, I love both of my parents equally. How could I ever be expected to choose one side or the other? How can anyone expect a person of mixed descent to simply pick — or try to dictate what their identity is for them?
Meghan Markle is not a stranger to this narrative. The daughter of a white father and a Black mother, she has spoken and even written about the complications that have come with her racial ambiguity. In a poignant essay for Elle UK in 2015 (a year before she began dating Prince Harry), she wrote: "Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating." Her race has also has been at the center of the conversation surrounding her entry into the royal family, to the point where Prince Harry had to release a statement asking the media to back off. Even in her engagement interview with BBC — which should have been about nothing but her newfound happiness — Markle had to address the attention on her race, calling it "disheartening" and "a shame."
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As it was, they could only get Oprah.
Only blacks make this about race. After years, only the blacks continue it denigrate positive advances and have chosen to self segregate. There will come a time when no one will give a crap anymore.
How many Pontiacs did she hand out? Oh wait...
Without grievances the Left loses power.
Racial animus is a strong motivator. It is the Left’s most powerful tool for motivating their base. I has been since the 1930s
“Markle had to address the attention on her race, calling it “disheartening” and “a shame.””
So, ostensibly decrying this, the author herself addresses attention to race.
Jeez.
Hate to tell them, but Markle and the Duchess of Cambridge look of similar complexion.
The race football spiking is over the top.
NIKE’s design team is already working to develop the new “Royak Air Jordans” so America’s inner-city kids will have something new to kill each other over.
Most folks don’t give a crap “what you are”. You get treated as your actions warrant. EOFS.
Isn’t markle the one that first called attention to her race and didn’t stop?
Excepting of course the Dress she wore, which apparently was white.
So why is it Barack Hussein Obama, who’s half black and half white, is routinely considered to be black because - well, he looks black, but this chick, who’s half black and half white, shouldn’t be considered white even though she looks white?
How do people feel pride when somebody they never met did something they had nothing to do with?
And the man she married LOL.
Yes, and how could they leave out the no-whites-allowed cast of Hamilton?
That would have gone over well in the U.K.
And the loony clooneys.
If Harry had dumped Meghan Markle, marrying Cressida Bonas instead, an article about the wedding having been unapologetically White would have been labeled hate speeech.
I do find it interesting that, (from what I’m told), there were no songs, speeches, or sermons celebrating her half-Jewish genes. I guess whatever she wants to identify as should be ok. After all wasn’t the head NAACP woman secretly white just a few years ago?? With that in mind, and in that respect, aren’t we all jus straight outta Compton? JK
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