Perspective: For biracial people like me, the royal baby has a special meaning
Britain's Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, accompanied by Meghan's mother, Doria Ragland, show their newborn baby son, Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor, to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Windsor Castle. By Steve Majors Steve Majors is a nonprofit communicator and writer who lives in Takoma Park, MD.
It wasn’t just family members with wagging fingers and clucking tongues she had to worry about. Interracial births were relatively uncommon then, especially in our rural community. Social mores that frowned on the mixing of races were backed up by anti-miscegenation laws nationwide. It wasn’t until 1967, the year after I was born, that the Supreme Court ruled in the Richard and Mildred Loving case and overturned state laws that barred interracial marriage.
I was left with the perception that people like me were an oddity. Only unusual words could describe what was falsely perceived to be our unconventional, immoral or illegal origins. When I was a child in the 1970s, the TV show “The Jeffersons” beamed what many consider the first black and white interracial couple into American living rooms. Each week, I sat, nose to screen, as Tom and Helen Willis endured comedic slights and crude slurs about their relationship and their biracial children. I felt conflicted by the uproarious sounds of the laugh track.
Years later, my orientation at another job in Los Angeles was postponed when the HR director called my new boss to complain that I had checked both black and white in the racial designation on my official application. She handed the phone to me. I listened as my future boss confided that if I wanted the job, I should just check one damn box.
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