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    Dahleen Glanton: African Americans know Meghan Markle is black. Yet many whites want to call her something else

    by Dahleen Glanton, Chicago Tribune Jan 17, 2020 3 minutes

    To many African Americans, Meghan Markle is simply black. So are Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Halle Berry, August Wilson, Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

    It doesn't matter that one of their parents happened to be white or another ethnicity. African Americans are an embracing culture. If you have some of our blood running through your veins, we consider you one of us.

    Maybe it goes back to the old one-drop rule. That was one of the

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