it seemed too good to be true
just a little bit too good to be true
because i felt like the other she was
about to drop
and unfortunately it did the optimism
and hope that i had before and
excitement just of this cute very
surface level
love story has
deepened to a respect for two people who
truly fought for their lives it may have
started off with megan as
oh this celebrity it's a fairy tale
dream and i think this interview
may have really shifted the perspective
and the american view of megan
i think what many in particular women of
color ended up finding was that they
related to megan
on a personal level they related to her
experience they may
not have had the tiara and the prince
but they have definitely had those
same experiences
their royal wedding was my super bowl
this was the beginning of something we
thought was going to be monumental
it's like okay like we are making
strides like we are making advances
a lot of us you know who who identify as
feminists thought you know you know
leaving your professional life to become
a princess but then you have the other
little girl inside of you like you know
everybody wants to be a princess like
what's so bad about that
i think everyone was pretty happy so it
is pretty
dismal to see like how everything has
transpired i think it's
hilarious to think that someone
came to the us because it was less
racist
that alone just makes you take pause
there's this perception among both
americans and british
um that the us is worse or the
the uk isn't as bad with regards to race
and i believe that megan and harry's
interview with oprah just demonstrated
to the us the uk
and the world how false that narrative
really is
it's kind of the typical token black
girl that has to represent all of us
um and that's a lot of work to uphold
and that's true of black people in
general like i went to private school
myself and i know what it's like to be
one of three
of my kids in a class and then you got
to be like the sole
proprietor of all information regarding
black people a lot of what she was
saying
resonated with me just from an
experience of being in corporate america
you go the appropriate routes and you
voice your complaints and you try to
play the game the way that they're
saying you should play it just to
realize that that
game was not designed with you in mind
to succeed
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what i am interested in looking forward
to is
how will archie you know identifiably
identify as black as
mixed race as british as american what
will his ethnicity be
and the millions of kids like him in the
united kingdom and the united states
what's going to be their racialized
experience
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