Lady Nimue
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The point I made, even if Sophia Charlotte had black ancesters, it was 24 generations in the background. To compare her to someone like Meghan who is half black, would be a stretch. Certainly is more of a cultural impact for a prince to marry someone who is quite visibly, and undeniably, mixed.
This is a dicey area/topic to venture (and on such a fluffy board, but maybe this is exactly the 'gift' that Meghan brings). I'm not sure you 'got' what MaiaMia was saying, given your response here. It's late at night which may be why I am foolhardy enough to venture into these deep waters.
The overarching point is that 'race' as we are using the term in our current times, dates back to the 1500's/1600's (and not before). 'Race' as in denoting skin color at that time (1600's/1700's) became a convenient 'marker' to identify a (purposely designated) subordinate class of human beings separated out for economic reasons (slaves). Slavery prior to the 1600's was not based on skin color, but on warfare. The condition of slavery was a mutable condition not based on color but based on the economics of power.
Prior to the 1600's everyone was 'mixed', using your phrase. It was more issues of tribal identities/religious beliefs/cultural allegiances, not skin color. Every advanced ancient culture was swarthy, in fact. The pale tribes in the north were pretty wild, and when they finally started descending into the narrow belt of what we would term advanced peoples, all those advanced peoples were 'of color'. Everybody was 'mixing', it would not have been an issue as to skin color (what we are calling 'race') but of culture/tribe and then later religion.
Meghan is actually not "someone who is quite visibly, and undeniably, mixed". I would suggest that you only identify her as such based on current biases and your knowledge of her parentage. Meghan is actually the norm. She is what we all are. There is nothing such as 'pure white'. Doesn't exist. Never has, unless one wants to claim a pure line of descent from the wild tribes of the north 2 thousand years ago, but even they came out of the 'swarthy' south (India). Skin color has to do with melanin, geographic location, nothing else.
Our current world's focus on 'race' is distinctly a recent (modern) focus (developed over the last 400 years) emerging out of the 1500/1600 transition into our 'modern' age and economic shift from feudalism to a 'free' economy (that needed a new way of controlling cheap labor).
Just some thoughts, because this 'race thing' is going to keep popping up, and likely needs to be faced. JMO.
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