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May 2018
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History is made

Today, a young African American woman, Meghan Markle, married into the British Royal family and became Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Sussex. She is also now The Countess of Dumbarton and Baroness Kilkeel.

Congratulations to the new happy Royal couple!!

In attendance at the wedding were both Queen Elizabeth, and Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, as well as at least 35,000 other witnesses.

View their wedding here.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N42MQJX4KoY
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ekself
ekself●Onehorsetown, Eastern Cape South Africa
May 19, 2018●1 Blogs●1,711 Comments
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She is not an African American as I suspect both your parets and maybe all you family members must be black in order to be called that. One more or less black person in the family dont make you an African American just as my Irish great grandmother don't make me an Irish African.
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Bearwoman
Bearwoman●Northgate, Ohio USA
May 19, 2018●42 Blogs●1,700 Comments
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Meghan is mixed race.black and white.
Her father is white and her mother is black.
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mollybaby
mollybaby●Cork City, Cork Ireland
May 19, 2018●37 Blogs●11,285 Comments
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Yeah, I never understood why if someone is half black and half white, they are always called black, never white.
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Miwagi
Miwagi●Flyover, Kentucky USA
May 19, 2018●5 Blogs●149 Comments
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I think biracial is a more accurate term. Ken must be thinking of the one drop rule.
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ooby_dooby
ooby_dooby●Ashland, Virginia USA
May 19, 2018●60 Blogs●728 Comments
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Whatever she is she's a lot better looking than him.
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Angelpepperonline today!
Angelpepper●Glen Ellyn, Illinois USA
May 19, 2018●9 Blogs●10,202 Comments
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In American! That Is What They Call It.

I do not hardly miss a week! Where someone will ask me " What Race I Am? "

Some would say because of my voice. And Some will say because of my complexion.



PS. I Think It Was A Nice Wedding! Just As Well As I Think William And Kate Wedding Was Also A Nice Wedding!.........wine
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ekself
ekself●Onehorsetown, Eastern Cape South Africa
May 20, 2018●1 Blogs●1,711 Comments
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Angel...maybe someday we will get to the point where we will be all just human beings....but don't see it happening soon.
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Elegsabiff
Elegsabiff●Motril-ish, Andalusia Spain
May 20, 2018●358 Blogs●9,358 Comments
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I found a few highlight videos which covered the whole thing in minutes laugh she looked beautiful, especially the second dress. Good looking couple, good luck to them, the kids should be spectacular.

It did occur to me, watching QE2 taking her place, that as she is the head of the church of England it was like having the pope as well as the sovereign at your wedding laugh

Can you imagine being the mother of the bride and yet unable to cry or do anything without thinking the entire TV-watching world is glued to your expression, waiting for you to do something they could be critical about? uh oh
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Lukeon
Lukeon●Port Elizabeth 6000, Eastern Cape South Africa
May 20, 2018●484 Blogs●7,155 Comments
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At least they will be going to a decent country for their honeymoon...laugh
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Annleeroseonline now!
Annleerose●Port of spain, Port of Spain Trinidad and Tobago
May 20, 2018●2 Blogs●437 Comments
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I want to believe she cried at the wedding or weddings before , no more tears and she must have thought it was bad luck to cry .dunno
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Ken_19
Ken_19OP●Winchester, Virginia USA
May 27, 2018●284 Blogs●3,903 Comments
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She clearly is seen to cry in my highlights of the event video. I was unaware until today there was an issue with the link. Here it is again.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbnPtdnSqLM


Ekself in the US, in several states there existed actual laws declaring any person possessing as little as one eigth of black blood to be non-white. Such laws have been largely repealed of course, but the perception still exists and many people of mixed parentage do indeed identify not only with being American, but also as African American.
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Kalpataru
Kalpataru●somewhere close to, Jakarta Indonesia
May 27, 2018●34 Blogs●1,846 Comments
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What about one:sixteen? Declared to be white?
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Ken_19
Ken_19OP●Winchester, Virginia USA
May 27, 2018●284 Blogs●3,903 Comments
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You would have to check the history of the laws of each of the US states before 1964. 1964 of course being the date of passage of the Civil Rights Act. Each state treated people of color differently. Some changed their laws after Reconstruction began, some refused to. What your parents were determined where you could live, what streets you could walk on after sundown, what you could own and how you had to travel, drink from a water fountain, and even whether or not you could use a public bathroom or had to go in the woods like the animal white society considered you to be. If your skin was light (like Meghan's) and you tried to pass yourself off as white (an action called passing) and you got caught the penalty was usually quite severe. The laws suddenly changed in 1964 when I was 10, but the attitudes of many of the older people didn't. Only as those who embraced the old culture of bigotry being a good thing age and die off one by one does change slowly come.
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Ken_19
Ken_19OP●Winchester, Virginia USA
May 27, 2018●284 Blogs●3,903 Comments
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It is worth noting there were also racial laws dealing with Asians (such as in several states all Asians including those who just looked Asian had to live in designated China Town areas regardless of whether Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Philippine, Burmese, etc.) which is why Chinatowns were usually very crowded places. There were also Federal laws dealing with the Native people of America (i.e., the Indians) and the Hispanics of Puerto Rico. It wasn't until an Executive Order of President Eisenhower suddenly allowed Hispanic Puerto Ricans to come to the mainland they could. NY immediately reacted by declaring all such Hispanics had to live in a new area carved off Harlem and then under developed parts of northern Manhattan, Spanish Harlem. Of course the Puerto Ricans kept coming and Southern Blacks kept moving North so the two Harlems merged, but also kept growing. Suggested Reading: "The Warmth of Other Suns."
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