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On Meghan Markle

Bill Tope

    The Oprah interview with Harry and Meghan got wide coverage, and appropriately so. Foremost among the issues discussed was the English Monarchy’s alleged racism; the Royals’ concerns that Meghan’s child Archie might be too “dark“ when he was finally born.
    Just goes to show that racism and xenophobia are not the exclusive province of the United States. Now, what I don’t understand—and perhaps some readers (of any race) can enlighten me—is why Meghan Markle is referred to as a “Black woman,“ as she was several times by Oprah.
    Meghan Markle’s complexion is not “Black“; she is of a racial mixture. I understand her mother is African American, her father white. But folks, she’s as white as I am, and I’ve often been mistaken for a shark’s belly. Okay, she has a swarthy complexion, but would hardly be mistaken for Venus Williams.
    We are all of mixed race origin. Some whites feel that the nefarious “one drop“ rule applies when determining racial identity; and in turn, some Blacks are quick to seize anyone with that one drop and draw them into their own ranks. Why? In the latter case, perhaps blacks feel there is strength in numbers; in the former case, maybe the white purists feel that that one drop has irreparably tainted the blood line.
    Both sides are full of crap. In the leadup to WWII, Hitler admonished his minions to allow no one into the Nazi Party unless they could prove their racial purity (non-Jewish) going back some two hundred years. Is that what we’ve come to, obsessed with racial identity? It is perhaps fruitless to call for unity, but division into self-loathing racial camps does nothing to further the human cause.

 

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