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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

It means Doria is an identifiable visible Black woman. Though Doria likely has 20-25% European genes, for cultural and historical purposes she is Black. It times of slavery, the short lived Reconstruction  era, and finally the Jim Crow era, ADOS (American Descendants of Slaves) were whatever race their maternal side indicated. The recent box of multi-racial/bi-racial is quite new [unless you were of Creole/Cajun descent]. [/quote]

I loved this University blog post about Beyonce’s Formation lyrics: [i]The notion that Creoles represent a different racial group from “Negro” has been shaped by the history of southern Louisiana. Most people who identify as Creoles of color are descendants of gens de couleur libre (free people of color), a group with roots in French Louisiana. Gens de couleur libre often had white fathers and enslaved African mothers. Emancipated by their fathers, this mixed-race population formed a separate group in colonial Louisiana. They married one another and formed communities throughout the southern parishes. Some owned land; the wealthier ones even owned slaves. Gens de couleur libre considered themselves to be neither white nor black, but a combination of both races. Their descendants, who referred to themselves as Creoles of color after the Civil War, continued to stress their racial and cultural hybridity.[/i]

DH is Louisiana Creole (French/African), very dark, and far less likely to be identified as a multi-racial black person than I am (light skinned African/Irish/Cuban), but the family histories both include at least one black ancestor who was emancipated in the very early 1800s and established as a middle class landowner. One difference is that his ancestor did it as part of a community of peers and mine did it in isolation. [/quote]

What an interesting family history on both sides. I hope someone is writing it all down for future generations to appreciate. I'm the oldest of three children and have found that I am much more aware of our family's history than either of my younger siblings.[/quote]

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