*Meghan Markle spoke about her experiences with racism and her mother being called the N-word, in a 2012 campaign that has resurfaced in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
When Meghan participated in the “I Won’t Stand For…” campaign for the charity Erase the Hate, she opened up about being a bi-racial woman raised by a Black woman, ELLE reports.Â
“I’m biracial. Most people can’t tell what I’m mixed with, and so much of my life has felt like being a fly on the wall,” Meghan said. “And so some of the slurs I’ve heard or the really offensive jokes, or the names, it’s just hit me in a really strong way.”
And when it comes to her mother Doria Ragland, the former actress noted “You know, a couple of years ago I heard someone call my mom the N-word. So I think for me, beyond being personally affected by racism, just to see the landscape of what our country is like right now, certainly the world, and to want things to be better.”
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Meghan went on to say that “certain people don’t look at me and see me as a black woman or a biracial woman.”
She also noted that leaving her hometown L.A. to work on the drama series “Suits” in Toronto was like “leaving this bubble.”Â
“I think that in doing that it really opened my eyes to a mentality that still exists that I thought was backdated to the days of when my grandfather moved our family from Cleveland to L.A., and they drove across the country and to stop and get food, whatever kind of place they were going to, and they had to go round the back to get food for the family,” she said. “You know, I thought that was really isolated to those days that we were past, and sadly they’re not.”
Markle recently relocated to Los Angeles with husband Prince Harry and 1-year-old son Archie.Â
“I am really proud of my heritage on both sides. I’m really proud of where I’ve come from and where I’m going,” Meghan concluded. “But yeah, I hope that by the time I have children that people are even more open-minded to how things are changing and that having a mixed world is what it’s all about. I mean, certainly, it makes it a lot more beautiful and a lot more interesting.”
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