white. there was no biracial barbie baby doll for meghan. >> while the markle household deals with race head-on, years of built-up racial tensions in the country explode right in meghan's backyard. >> she was driving i think with her mom, and i think there was debris. she thought it was snowing, and she realized i was actually the l.a. riots. >> riots that erupt when four white police officers are quitd in the beating of a black man, rodney king. a moment meghan says impacts her at a young age. >> it definitely opened meghan's eyes to the fact that this was a world that was not always going to treat her fairly. and was not always going to be kind to her or to her family. >> i was teaching here at the time, and i think it destroyed kind of that feeling that l.a. is this wonderful place to live, and you have all these different