As the media began to follow Markle and pick apart her every move, her mom, Doria Ragland, knew there was a racial component to the way her daughter was being treated, but Markle, who grew up mixed race and rather removed from much of the overt racism Black people face, didn’t see it. “I said to her… ‘This is about race,’ and Meg said, ‘Mommy, I don’t wanna hear that.’ And I said, ‘Well, you may not want to hear it, but this is what’s coming down the pike.’”
“It’s very different to be a minority but not be treated like a minority right off the bat,” Markle explains in the doc about growing up mixed race. “Obviously, now people are very aware of my race because they made it such an issue when I went to the UK. But, before that, most people didn’t treat me like a ‘Black woman.’ So that talk didn’t have to happen for me.”
Ragland reveals that, in hindsight, she wishes she had prepared Markle better. “As a parent . . . absolutely I would like to go back and have that kind of real conversation about how the world sees [Meghan].”
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