lawn and following and harassing all members of her family. anybody, really, who knew her. despite starring in a tv show, meghan is relatively unknown. now the british press wants to know who she is and if she s fit for the royal family. she was a woman who has been married and people are fascinated by the fact that she was divorced, people were fascinated by her background, her acting, a career woman, how would that work, being someone in the royal family? that s not what we ve seen before. they also have not seen someone biracial dating a member of the royal family. and some of the conversation is blatantly racist. there was one newspaper headline saying, straight out of compton, suggesting she was from a gang-ridden neighborhood. a journalist recently wrote a book about race, identity, and belonging in britain. harry would be dropping around for tea in gangland, which was clearly racially loaded.
toronto, the paparazzi were camping on her mother s front lawn and following and harassing all members of her family. anybody, really, who knew her. despite starring in a tv show, meghan is relatively unknown. now the british press wants to know who she is and if she s fit for the royal family. she was a woman who has been married and people are fascinated by the fact that she was divorced, people were fascinated by her background, her acting, a career woman, how would that work, being someone in the royal family? that s not what we ve seen before. they also have not seen someone biracial dating a member of the royal family. and some of the conversation is blatantly racist. there was one newspaper headline saying, straight out of compton, suggesting she was from a gang-ridden neighborhood. a journalist recently wrote a book about race, identity, and belonging in britain. harry would be dropping around for tea in gangland, which was clearly racially loaded. another issue
toronto, the paparazzi were camping on her mother s front lawn and following and harassing all members of her family. anybody who knew her. reporter: despite starring in a tv show, meghan is relatively unknown. now the british press wants to know who she is and if she s fit for the royal family. she s a woman who has been married. people were fascinated that she s been divorced. people are fascinated by her background, her acting, a career woman, how would that work being with someone in the royal family. that s not what we ve seen before. reporter: they also have not seen someone biracial dating a member of the royal family. some of the conversation is blatantly racist. one newspaper headline said straight out of compton, suggesting that she was from a gang-ridden neighborhood. reporter: afwa hirsch is a journalist and wrote a book about race, identity, and
headline saying, straight out of compton, suggesting she was from a gang ridden neighborhood. reporter: hersh is a journalist and wrote a book about race, identity and belonging in britain. would harry be dropping around for tea in gangland, which was very clearly racially loaded. a whole other issue exploded, which was the number of rather horrific social media racist comments began to flood in from the darkest, vilest corners of the internet. so such an interesting figure to be joining the royal family. i will say this, you know, a certified american television star is giving up her citizenship for someone who is, like, sixth in line to the throne. i think this is wrong i generally think there should be a real discussion about this. i appreciate this. you think she s making more sacrifices than he has to. yes what is he giving up? i don t need him to give up anything. what she s getting is she s getting an international platform for the issues she cares about. she was a
rich people out, it s to keep out the undesirable element. whatever that might be. right now i have a suit on. i don t look like the undesirable element, but in a hoodie and weekend attire, i would look like the person you d call, all right, to worry about your neighborhood. i wasn t going to subject myself or my 14-year-old sons to that. the conversations i had with my sons are interesting because, you know, they weren t raised like i was. i m straight out of compton. i don t just mean i have the t-shirt and i saw the movie, i have it on my birth certificate. i was always right? i was raised knowing i was black. i have to tell you that my sons have had to be taught. i had a conversation with my youngest son once and explained to him he was black. he s like, no, no, i m light brown. let me explain to you what this means. we re having these conversations quite often. it s funny, their reactions are a lot like some of the critics on facebook.