Be careful what you wish for, Meghan.

Mixed race friends of my children refer to themselves as mixed race. They don't want to be called black as this negates the white parent.

Yes, I was wondering how the white parent must feel if they are written out of the equation.

Such a shame they didn`t just go off and have their own life if that was what they wanted. Without court cases, books about `freedom` like they were locked in the tower! and family discord.

She seems to need a battle and Harry really should have more respect for his family.

Freedom = independently earning their own living, using their own resources.

I've just watched their Zoom conference with Malala Yousafzai.

Another box ticked for Meghan on her way up the political ladder.

Harry? Fidgety, uneasy and beginning to sound like Meghan.

Fast-forward to the seventh grade and my parents couldn't protect me as much as they could when I was younger. There was a mandatory census I had to complete in my English class – you had to check one of the boxes to indicate your ethnicity: white, black, Hispanic or Asian.

That would be age 11-12 - would that be legal in the UK? Of course, I realise this was the USA. Asking a child of that age to identify their ethnicity at school?

I think the tick box mentality is too intrusive and divisive. When attending Adult education classes we were asked to tick boxes regarding ethnicity, sexuality etc.
This was a fun art class!
Most of us just put NA in the boxes.

The last time I was presented with a tick box on my ethnicity I seem to remember a space to write what I wanted, if the other choices were not to my liking.
Wouldn't USA be much the same?
After all it has a larger diverse population than here.

The first time I heard the story of the boxes, Meghan was praising her father who had told her to draw her own box next time and label it and put a cross in it. Which sounds very sensible advice to me, embracing her heredity on both sides. It seems that her father encouraged her to acknowledge her background buying her two sets of dolls, one black, one white, so that she could play with a family that represented her own.

A good friend has a mixed race DD, it upsets both of them when people insist, sometimes quite agressively that her DD is black. Even once being told that her Mother did not matter it was her black heritage which is important. As her Mum brought her up and gave her great chances it is quite upsetting for them and really not necessary at all.

Namsnanny

The last time I was presented with a tick box on my ethnicity I seem to remember a space to write what I wanted, if the other choices were not to my liking.
Wouldn't USA be much the same?
After all it has a larger diverse population than here.

If you read the article you'll see what Meghan's father told her to do

We were supposed to fill in the boxes for pupils on the roll every year at school. I used to put a cross through and write, "they are children, just that".
What is it with this stupid labelling tick box stuff? Individually accommodating all the differences and needs etc is impossible anyway.

My 2 DDs are of mixed race, I am white British and their father is Asian. They were brought up in the UK but both embrace their asian heritage. Younger DD is just off to the country of her fathers birth for a 4 year posting with her job.
I think I would be a bit upset if they denied they were half white.

Well it's not really the point. The ONS wants us to tick boxes to allow a count of ethnicity in the population. It's slightly important to know I'd have thought. The Census will have boxes but I'm sure they will have numerous options.

Meghan's father told her to make her own box as she didn't want to put black or white. Because she wasn't.

She was mixed race and did not want people to just call her black. Or white

oopsminty... post 12.30
Sorry, your point is....?

.....who are you to decide how she should feel, and how she should identity herself? Next you are going to say Obama wasn’t black either.

What an aggressively rude response. Who I am is a Gransnetter. That’s who I am. And I’m a Gransnetter who prefers scientific facts than than woke fiction. You can argue till the cows come home, but it won’t change the fact that Meghan is mixed race. She can identify as a flying saucer if she wants to, but she’s not a flying saucer, she’s a mixed race human being. And incidentally, so is Obama. You are 100% wrong biba because you cannot change mixed race people into white people or black people. They are mixed race people.

Lexisgranny

Galaxy

“l’m told that in 2019 I was the most trolled person in the entire world, male or female”.

And you think this is a turn of phrase. Hmm, well I’m afraid in that case we must agree to differ and move on.

She doesn’t say she is, she says she’s been told that. Play fair...occasionally.

Lucca

Perhaps it is too much to expect that Meghan will have exercised due diligence before quoting eternal sources. I’m afraid hair splitting doesn’t cut it,

The point I was trying to make was that she was a child.
A child who was being asked questions which she did obviously find difficult to answer. Her school was being too intrusive asking questions such as that of a minor.

I hope they don't ask these questions of schoolchildren in the UK.

Sorry typo should be external not eternal

And the kindly, supportive father who told her to draw her own box on the form to tick is the same father who has been unceremoniously cut out of her life along with the rest of her white relatives.

Maybe that’s why she pushes her black heritage so much.
Interestingly it doesn’t extend to keeping her black frizzy hair though, does it?

She was a cute little girl with her freckles and curly hair. Now she seems to try to look as Caucasian as possible by straightening her hair, whilst at the same time proclaiming herself to be black. She’s certainly written her white relatives out of her life, though in fairness, apart from her mother, she’s written all her black relatives out of her life too.

I wonder what her mixed race son will make of it all when he grows up?

He may question why all his white relatives are cut out of his life.

I think by the time Archie is grown up Merlot a good number of UK citizens will be half white, half black = mixed race.
I remember reading that about 50%of black people in this country choose a white British partner. This is very different from Indians who stick to their own.
Interestingly if you look at all Meghan's past husbands/boyfriends they are all white.

I must stop looking at these. I find it unbelievable the mileage that can be found in criticising one woman. Surely she’s not that interesting ? Pages and pages of character assassination of one woman none of us has ever met.....and in fact her actions have no effect on our lives, she’s not a politician or anything. Ok so she may have Influenced her chosen husband To distance himself from his family but that’s not a crime !

FFS.. the casual racism is awful... " stick to their own"

PECS There is no racism in my post.