For many interracial couples, Meghan and Harry interview about racism stirs painful memories

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Days after Teresa and Stephan Beall's son was born 17 years ago, she remembers some of her husband's white relatives stopping by to see baby Ryan, who was swaddled in his bassinet.

“Oh! His hair is straight,” Teresa Beall, who is Black, recalled one of them saying. The remark made her angry. The words weren’t necessarily about color, but the message was clear.

She thought to herself: And so it begins.

The exchange came to mind Sunday night as Teresa and Stephan Beall, an interracial couple in Brandywine, Maryland, watched Oprah Winfrey’s highly anticipated two-hour interview with Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan. During the interview, Meghan said she and her husband were told during her first pregnancy that her son, Archie, could not get royal security without a title. She said unnamed palace officials had expressed “concerns” about the color of the unborn baby’s skin.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/for-many-interracial-couples-meghan-and-harry-interview-about-racism-stirs-painful-memories/ar-BB1enDPR?li=BBnb7Kz

[kimbutgar]

1. My white brother in law upon seeing my son said my Mother would be happy he was light skinned

So I get it.