Don Lemon Admits ‘It’s A Bit Shocking’ That Meghan Markle Has Only Just Understood What It’s Like To Be Treated As A ‘Black Woman’
01.09.2022 - 16:09
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CNN anchor Don Lemon has praised Meghan Markle for her recent comments about race during her “Archetypes” podcast interview with Mariah Carey.
Markle explained in the chat: “For us it’s so different because we’re light-skinned, you’re not treated as a Black woman, you’re not treated as a white woman, you sort of fit in-between.
“If there’s any time in my life that’s been more focused on my race, it’s only once I started dating my husband,” she went on, referencing Prince Harry.
“Then I started to understand what it was like to be treated like a Black woman, because up until then I had been treated like a mixed woman and things really shifted.”
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Lemon then discussed the remarks on Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s “New Day” with his co-anchor Brianna Keilar asking him for his thoughts, given how vocal he has been on the matter in the past.
Lemon shared, “Look, there are a couple of things at work here. There’s colourism, which I talk about. There’s colourism in the Black community, but there’s also… in some ways, she’s saying that she had privilege and so therefore it didn’t apply to her because it never happened to her. Right?
“She was a mixed woman. People didn’t really know how to react to her. They didn’t know if she was Black or white, but she didn’t get the full Black treatment because people weren’t sure that she was, you know, Black.
“I think most African Americans probably looked at her and said, ‘Oh, I know that’s a Black woman,’ but I think the larger culture may not have realized that.”
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