{"id":55325,"date":"2017-12-03T03:21:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55325"},"modified":"2017-12-03T03:21:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T03:21:01","slug":"harry-and-meghan-is-not-great-news-for-interracial-couples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55325","title":{"rendered":"Harry-and-Meghan is not \u2018great news\u2019 for interracial couples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/harry-meghan-not-great-news-interracial-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Harry-and-Meghan is not \u2018great news\u2019 for interracial couples<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gal-dem<\/a><br \/>\n2017-12-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nmozz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Natalie Morris<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/harry-meghan-not-great-news-interracial-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.gal-dem.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/prince-harry-meghan-markle-official-appearance.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=759%2C500\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>image via Vanity Fair<\/small><\/p>\n<p>On Monday it was announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prince_Harry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Prince Harry<\/a> is engaged to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Meghan_Markle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meghan Markle<\/a> \u2013 a half white, half black American. A mixed-race woman is about to become the first non-white member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">British monarchy<\/a>, and I am conflicted.<\/p>\n<p>Feelings about the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_royal_family\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Family<\/a> aside, my initial instinct was that the introduction of any kind of diversity to this country\u2019s most historic institution can only be a good thing. There\u2019s definitely a little girl inside me who wants to cry joyful tears at the thought of a black princess. But after about four minutes on Twitter and an avalanche of headlines screaming about Harry\u2019s \u201cexotic\u201d choice of fianc\u00e9e, I realised how this was actually going to go&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gal-dem.com\/harry-meghan-not-great-news-interracial-couples\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mixed-race woman is about to become the first non-white member of the British monarchy, and I am conflicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[24052,20717,27733,27720,27709],"class_list":["post-55325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-gal-dem","tag-meghan-markle","tag-natalie-morris","tag-prince-harry","tag-prince-henry-of-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55326,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55325\/revisions\/55326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}