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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Doria 100% AA?[/quote]

Doris is 100% Black but likely an ADOS [American Descendant of Slaves], most ADOS with no recent history of immigrants in their families are at minimum 20-25% of European Descent. Thus, her marrying Thomas Märkle made it possibly for Meghan to look Southern European [at first glance]  if you didn’t know her ancestry. Most biracial black people with a decent amount of European ancestry on their Black side can appear white.

Here are a few examples:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Francis_White

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jealous

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/10/07/354310370/a-chosen-exile-black-people-passing-in-white-america

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I don't know what you mean by "100%" if she is part European. [/quote]

I think PP mean to write 100% AA. It is possibly to have both white and black ancestry and still be AA. In fact, it was legally the rule in this nation for hundreds of years. Up through 1/16 African ancestry. Which is likely undetectable by phenotype and without DNA, entirely based on a community policing via legal records.

It’s interesting to me that the people on DCUM who want to defend Latin America as a racial paradise completely miss that the Spanish and Portuguese colonial governments established dozens of racial categories for various admixtures (castas) and even commissioned paintings to help local bureaucrats label babies accordingly. Allegedly each type of admixture produced a certain temperament and of course, the more white ancestry, the better the temperament with black/Indian seen as the worst. 
See https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ap-art-history/early-europe-and-colonial-americas/colonial-americas/a/spaniard-and-indian-produce-a-mestizo-attributed-to-juan-rodriguez

The legality of the sistema de castas ended, but a lot of the attitudes embedded in it have remained, including the idea of improving the bloodline by whitening it. I see these attitudes still circulating in my own Cuban-American relatives and in many countries in Latin America when I worked and lived there. [/quote]

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