...they’ve been emboldened to put us back in our place. I kind of feel like Meghan is experiencing something like this in the UK.

...they’ve been emboldened to put us back in our place. I kind of feel like Meghan is experiencing something like this in the UK.

Sorry yeah I was doing that. I think I made an assumption about what you were talking about when you discussed privilege. And that is down to ignorance - or forgetfulness at the very least. Unlike in the US, in the UK, mixed race people (part black) do not have an advantage educationally or in the work place. If…

I can’t believe you actually typed this with a straight face. Are you serious?

The point I am trying to make is that people know that she is part black because she has repeatedly put it in the public domain. So even if she could ‘pass’ (by the way I put it in quotes like this because I simply do not accept whiteness as the norm or the desirable standard. So ‘passing’ as a phrase is not one I can…

Hi LooseSeals, can I trouble you to approve my above comment please? I feel like my contribution is particularly relevant as a black British middle class woman, but the person I directed my comment at has neither responded nor addressed the points I raised.

Sorry, I’m also quite interested in this part of your comment:

Yeah sure but the months before that and the months following her engagement were filled with a lot of racist crap being thrown at her. She has had a few reprieves here and there but the overall climate has definitely been chilly. There are those who like her, and I think a lot of those people will always like her…

I’m genuinely surprised. I don’t know any black people - whether mixed or not - who have ever expected to have an easy ride of it in predominantly white circles. The picture you paint of this biracial woman expecting to be embraced and celebrated by all and sundry for having deigned to marry into the royal family is…

...during all those years of acting & humanitarian work pre-Harry, I can’t recall a single incident that caused her to be regarded as anything less than humble,

I really think Meghan was not aware of what she was marrying in to.

It’s very interesting that we’ve seen two woc painted with the “social climber” brush

I don’t understand. The abuse, disrespect and racist dog-whistling started long before they even became engaged. How therefore do you come to the conclusion that she believed she would be universally adored? Also, she was told what a nightmare the whole thing would be. No one left her under any illusions. She simply…

Meghan can never ‘achieve’ that? Gosh that is a weird statement. Why even pit these women against each other in this way? It’s ridiculous!

Forgive me, but I have made a decision to correct this every time someone makes a point of denying that she is a princess. She actually became a princess of the United Kingdom upon her marriage. She is Princess Henry of Wales. Same as Kate is Princess William of Wales. People (I do not mean you by the way) have seemed…

Some of the comments on Jezebel and the Root haven’t exactly been enlightened either. I’ve read comments condemning Meghan Markle for referring to herself as mixed race rather than black. I’ve read comments going on about how amazing it will be to have black people at a royal wedding - completely ignoring the fact…

At least Meghan and Harry aren’t related like Kate and William.

Yes. It took me and my hubby 6 weeks from our first meeting to fall in love and get engaged. We have been very happily married for over three years now and we have a little boy. In contrast, I was with my ex for ten years before we got married. I was miserable and we separated a year later.

There were black people (plural) at Kate and Wills’ wedding. Just because they were not American does not make them any less black. It is starting to seem to me that Americans often make the mistake of thinking that only African Americans count when we talk about blackness. The royals are not nearly as removed from…

I’m very sorry to hear that you are going through this. There is way too much of this kind of victimisation going on, and too much closing ranks around predators. As another poster said, perhaps some of us women perpetuate this type of thing so as to somehow convince ourselves that we are somehow different from the…