Meghan Markle claims she was treated like a 'Black woman' only AFTER she started dating Prince Harry
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Meghan Markle is back at it with the brand new episode of her Spotify podcast Archetypes, which is part of Meghan and Harry's $25 million deal with the streaming giant. Following her bombshell interview with The Cut, in which she claimed that she upset the royal family just by existing, she has now stated that she was treated like a "Black woman", especially after her relationship with Prince Harry.
In the second episode of her podcast, titled 'The Duality of Diva,' Meghan had a special guest, none other than Mariah Carey. The Duchess of Sussex explained how she was inspired by Carey because she too is a light-skinned woman. Meghan said, "Oh my gosh. Someone who looks like me. She's mixed like me." She continued, "Because we're light-skinned, you are not treated as a black woman. You're not treated as a white woman. You sort of fit in between. If there is any time where there was more focus on my race it was when I started dating my husband (Prince Harry). Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a black woman because up until then I was treated as a mixed woman and things really shifted."
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Meghan's father is white and her mother Doria is black. Mariah Carey's father, on the other hand, is African American and Venezuelan, while her mother is a white Irish woman. When asked if she was mixed, the 53-year-old singer replied, "But that's an interesting thing, a mixed woman, because I always thought it should be OK to say I'm mixed, like it should be OK to say that, but people want you to choose." These comments come right after Meghan accused the royal family of providing the other members with the arrangement they preferred but not Prince Harry and herself.
Meghan Markle says she was treated like a Black woman
This discussion about mixed gender came up after Meghan berated the British press, saying she did not want her children photographed because they had called her children the N-word. In her interview with The Cut, she said, "Why would I give the very people calling my children the N-word a photo of my child before I can share it with the people that love my child? You tell me how that makes sense and then I'll play that game." Meghan has often been accused of bringing racism into the conversation and credits it to the time when she first got absolutely famous, i.e., when started dating Prince Harry.
The two celebrities went on to talk about the struggles of being light-skinned. Carey goes, "I didn't fit in, it would be more of the black area of town, or then you could be where my mom chose to live, where the more white neighborhoods and I didn't fit in anywhere at all," to which Meghan replied, "Yeah. I understand that." She continued, "This is part of why when I was putting this conversation together I had to talk to you. Of course, I had to talk to you. You were so formative for me. Representation matters so much." The second episode of the Spotify podcast is now live.