In the latest episode of her podcast series’Antique model‘, Meghan Markle talked more about what it feels like to be a Black woman and how society perceives her. The Duchess of Sussexdaughter of Doria Ragland and Thomas Markle, called stereotypes “angry black women” in the podcast, which essentially refers to challenging the many stereotypes that women around the world are associated with – especially women of color.
Meghan, who joined actor Issa Rae, said there is a difference between “difficult” and “obvious”. In the episode, Rae said when her friend called her “concrete”, she To this, the duchess replied, “I’m special… You’re allowed to set a boundary, you’re allowed to be explicit. It doesn’t make you demanding, it doesn’t make you difficult. It makes you clear. “
Speaking of anger, Meghan asked Rae if, as a Black woman, she felt judged for showing emotion and if she felt she was “allowed to be angry” or not. are not.
“Absolutely not, because, I can’t lose my temper, I can’t do it especially Black woman, but also just a public figure now. People are looking for ways to justify their perception of you. That doesn’t mean I’m not angry. That probably means I’ll vent my frustrations to someone I trust, get it out of my system and then go into repair mode,” then replied.
In the episode, titled ‘The Legend of the Angry Black Woman‘, Meghan also spoke of “shrinking back and tiptoeing into the room”, for fear of being received negatively. “I also find myself crouching and tiptoeing into the room and – what I find most embarrassing – when you are saying a sentence and the intonation rises, like it is a question. And you’re like, ‘Oh my God, stop, don’t whisper and tiptoe around it’. “
In a previous episode of the podcast, the 41-year-old woman said that she Black women’s identities become “more concentrated” after she began dating her current husband Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. She claims people have become aware of her race and ethnic background since news of her relationship with King Charles and Princess Diana’s son broke.
“Then I began to understand what it felt like to be treated like a Black woman; because, until then, I was treated like a mixed woman. And things really changed,” she said.
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