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By\u00a0Nylah Burton<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first six years of my life, I thought my father \u2014 and more than a few people in his Black Caribbean Creole family \u2014 were white. But when I went to a predominantly white school for the first time, the kids there were different from me and my family \u2014 how they spoke, how they ate, and most importantly, how they saw the world. That was the end of me thinking that whiteness or Blackness had much of anything to do with how you look. The same can\u2019t be said for Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the six-part Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan<\/a><\/em> \u2014 which is more akin to a highly-produced home movie due to Prince Harry and Meghan\u2019s complete creative control \u2014 the former Meghan Markle opens up a bit more about her thoughts on her biracial identity and her experiences with racism. But what she shares hints at a deeper internalized racism and colorism that has yet to be meaningfully addressed by the Duchess of Sussex, even as she spreads awareness about the horrendous racism she endured at the hands of the British press and the British royal family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\u00a0Harry & Meghan,\u00a0<\/em>Meghan claims she was not treated like a Black woman, or even a woman of color, until she and Harry got engaged. \u201c[It\u2019s] very different to be a minority but not be treated as a minority right off the bat. Obviously, now, people are very aware of my race because they made it such an issue when I went to the U.K. But before that, most people didn\u2019t treat me like a \u2018Black woman.\u2019 So that talk didn\u2019t have to happen for me,\u201d Meghan said during the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It boggles my mind to think she lived 35 years as a clearly non-white person without ever experiencing racism of any kind. And many multiracial Black people who tuned in to watch aren\u2019t buying it either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt seems impossible for an even slightly visibly mixed person with known African heritage to have grown up in the 20th century, even its last quarter, and not have been treated by the wider society as Black, including being subject to racism,\u201d said Ben Karp, who taught the history of race in the U.S. at Temple University Japan and whose mother is Black and father is white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Reist<\/a>, a lecturer at Stanford and a scholar of race in the Americas, said she was baffled by a moment in the series when Meghan recalled witnessing someone call her mother, Doria Ragland, the N-word. While Meghan has implied it happened more than once<\/a>, the actress seemed dissociated from the experience, seeing it as something that happened to her mother, and to other Black people, but not to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just couldn\u2019t fathom disassociating myself from my family, from my mother like that,\u201d said Reist, whose mother is Black American and whose father is white and Swiss. She speculated that Meghan seems to need racism to be \u201chyperpersonal\u201d for it to mean much to her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one episode, Ragland also said that when she informed her daughter the British tabloids were abusing her because she was a Black woman, Meghan responded, \u201cMommy, I don\u2019t want to hear that.\u201d<\/a> Seeing as the duchess also shared stories of her mother being mistaken for her nanny, Meghan knew that racism was something that happened to women who looked like her mother, but it felt unbearable to think that it was something that could happen to her, too.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Oprah Winfrey (right) interviews Prince Harry (left) and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, (center) during a CBS prime-time special on March 7.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Challenging Meghan\u2019s claim that she was never treated like a Black woman or a woman of color might seem petty or like it\u2019s invalidating her experience \u2014 a common pushback lobbed at people who question Meghan\u2019s descriptions of how she was perceived. But it\u2019s important to parse this issue because it helps us understand the nature of passing, especially how it happens today. Meghan presents passing for white \u2014 or the fact that \u201cpeople didn\u2019t know what I was mixed with\u201d \u2014 as a passive act, as something that just happened to her. But while many light-skinned people have the ability<\/em> to pass, passing as an act<\/em> is intentional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the series, Meghan and her mother stress that Meghan was often mistaken for a white woman, as if this is deeply relevant information. Meghan\u2019s then-agent Nick Collins admitted it was a while \u2014 he doesn\u2019t remember how long \u2014 before he learned she was biracial. Almost all of Meghan\u2019s friends featured in the documentary are white, and aside from her mother, none of Meghan\u2019s Black family members are featured. Moreover, after her teenage years, we never see Meghan\u2019s hair curly or in any other style that is remotely associated with Black people. In college, Meghan joined a white sorority, Kappa Kappa Gamma<\/a> (it\u2019s been in the news<\/a> for multiple racist incidents<\/a> in the past<\/a> few years<\/a>) and has mostly dated white men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite being raised by a Black mother in a Black neighborhood in Los Angeles<\/a>, Meghan has effectively been living a white life \u2014 surrounded by white friends, romantic partners, and people who did not know she was biracial. We view passing as the stuff shown in Imitation of Life<\/em><\/a> <\/em>or in Brit Bennett\u2019s novel The Vanishing Half<\/em><\/a>, where the person runs away from their former life in search of a better future. But today, passing doesn\u2019t require convoluted lies. It can involve more subtle actions, such as downplaying one\u2019s Blackness, immersing oneself in white worlds, and omitting mentions of one\u2019s race until it\u2019s unavoidable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandmother, who was born with blondish hair and blue-green eyes, presents as white to many people. When I asked her if she considers that as passing, she said absolutely not. \u201cPassing would be if I didn\u2019t immediately correct them or if I didn\u2019t live a Black woman\u2019s life,\u201d she said. \u201cPeople being wrong about me isn\u2019t me passing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the docuseries, Meghan wants us to believe she was naive about racism, and that the U.K. was a brutal wake-up call. This feels only half true. The U.K. was<\/em> a brutal wake-up call \u2014 not to the realities of racism, but to the fact that being biracial (and not identifying as Black) did not protect her from the intense anti-Blackness she experienced. But by her own admission, she was not unaware of the racial dynamics in the U.S. She lived through the 1992 Los Angeles uprising, saw her mother being called racial slurs, and heard stories of her grandfather\u2019s experiences navigating sundown towns.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Meghan Markle (left) with her mother, Doria Ragland (right), as a child.NETFLIX<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Meghan knew racism existed, she just felt a comfortable distance from it because of the way she looked. She felt so comfortable that she thought she could marry into the British royal family \u2014 an institution built on the corpses of colonized and enslaved Black and brown people \u2014 and be accepted. While I\u2019m skeptical her involvement with the royal family was the first time she experienced racism or anti-Blackness, it likely was<\/em> the first time she found herself unable to ignore it, or comfort herself by knowing darker-skinned people had it worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And while Meghan claims that \u201cwe don\u2019t really talk about what it\u2019s like to be biracial,\u201d she fails to recognize that her own discussion of biracialism is alienating and even offensive to many biracial people. Her claim that both Black and white people are trying to \u201cforce her to choose between two worlds\u201d are not serious thoughts because they pretend Blackness and whiteness are near equals in power. So, of course people will be critical of someone who clings to power. But in some ways, Karp sympathizes and understands why Meghan seems to feel this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe waning of \u2018the one-drop rule,\u2019 even in the Black community, has meant that many of us who have a Black identity but are considered passable or \u2018white adjacent\u2019 preempt hurtful rejection by never claiming full belonging [with Black people],\u201d he said. \u201cThis bubble can be a kind of safe space. It\u2019s easier for many of us to accept a bit of self-delusion than to deal with such primal exclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Meghan\u2019s comments on biracialism go beyond a fear of exclusion. In 2012, she participated in an anti-racism public service announcement<\/a>, and shared her experience growing up. Toward the end of the video, she added this tidbit: \u201cHaving a mixed world is what it\u2019s all about, it makes it a lot more beautiful and more interesting.\u201d The idea that mixedness is more beautiful is rooted in colorism and anti-Blackness (the popular phrase \u201cmejorar la raz<\/em>a\u201d or \u201cimprove the race\u201d<\/a> is one of the most well-known examples of this destructive thinking) and many biracial and multiracial Black people recoiled at the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vina Smith-Ramakrishnan, whose mother is Tamil and whose father is a Black American, said, \u201cThe \u2018mixed world\u2019 comment sat weird with me. I get the overall sense that she truly believes being fully Black or even being associated with Blackness is inherently worse than being mixed. It seems to me like an active lifestyle choice she has made to identify as biracial but just lean into whiteness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meghan once said she thought the U.K. would accept her because people in the Commonwealth \u201clooked like her.\u201d It\u2019s a deeply problematic statement that points to an awareness of her light-skinned privilege (and a willingness to reap those benefits), while also hinting at a lack of concern for people who do not have that ability to even\u00a0think<\/em>\u00a0the royal family would accept them in the first place. \u201cI am not light-skinned by South Asian or by Black standards,\u201d Smith-Ramakrishnan said. \u201cSo a lot of the \u2018privileges\u2019 that come with being biracial for other people, I do not benefit from.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fairness to Meghan, she wants to shed light on issues of racism. The docuseries mentions the work she and Harry are doing with the NAACP, her previous advocacy for the victims of the Grenfell fire in the U.K<\/a>., and her affirmation that George Floyd and Breonna Taylor\u2019s lives mattered. But besides speaking out against racism, Meghan must also examine the colorism she\u2019s seemingly internalized. And she must explore how her comments wound Black people, especially when this conversation about race, Blackness, and colorism is happening globally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI could sympathize with what she was saying,\u201d said Allison Dunne, who is Lebanese and Black. \u201cHowever, there are much better ways to do this, and if she\u2019s going to be taking these big jobs at the U.N. [and making Netflix documentaries] she should know how to contribute to this complicated discussion without denying her Blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At one point in Harry & Mehgan<\/em>, a little dark-skinned Black girl expresses hope that Meghan and Prince Harry\u2019s marriage will result in less racism in Britain. \u201cI think it will make a difference slightly because some people are really racist to other people because of their color,\u201d the girl says. \u201cMaybe it will make them change their mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, we know it hasn\u2019t. But the Sussexes now have control over their own narrative. Still, that control doesn\u2019t come without accountability. By bemoaning the fact that the benefits of colorism were \u201cstolen\u201d from her and finally experiencing the sting of racism like countless Black women before her instead of educating herself on how she\u2019s participated in a colorist system, Meghan\u2019s newfound revelation is fairly empty. If she truly wants to help change things, Meghan will first have to reconnect with the people she distanced herself from in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nylah Burton is a travel, lifestyle, and entertainment writer with bylines in New York Magazine, Vogue, and Travel + Leisure.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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