00:00My name is Megan Markle and I'm here because I think it's a really important campaign to be a
00:05part of. For me, I think it hits a really personal note. I'm biracial. Most people can't tell what
00:11I'm mixed with and so much of my life has felt like being a fly on the wall and so
00:17some of the
00:17slurs that I've heard or the really offensive jokes or the names, it's just hit me in a really
00:24strong way and then, you know, a couple years ago I heard someone call my mom the n-word. So
00:30I think
00:30for me, beyond being personally affected by racism, just to see the landscape of what our country is
00:37like right now, certainly the world, and to want things to be better. Quite honestly, your race is
00:44part of what defines you. I think what shifts things is that the world really treats you based on how
00:50you look. Certain people don't look at me and see me as a black woman or a biracial woman.
00:58They treat me differently, I think, than they would if they knew what I was mixed with and I think
01:02that
01:02that is, I don't know, it can be a struggle as much as it can be a good thing depending
01:06on the people
01:07that you're dealing with. Leaving LA, it was sort of like leaving this bubble where I was used to
01:13everything and had been exposed to everything except for a closed-mindedness that I experienced
01:18when I traveled outside of where I was from and I think that in doing that it just really opened
01:24my eyes to a mentality that still exists that I thought was backdated to the days of when my
01:30grandfather moved our family from Cleveland to LA and they drove across the country and to stop and
01:38get food, whatever kind of place they were going to, and they had to go around to the back to
01:41get food
01:42for the family. You know, I thought that that was really isolated to those days that we were past and
01:48sadly they're not. I am really proud of my heritage on both sides. I'm really proud of where I've come
01:55from and where I'm going. But yeah, I hope that by the time I have children that people are even
02:01more
02:01open-minded to how things are changing and that having a mixed world is what it's all about. I mean,
02:07certainly it makes it a lot more beautiful and a lot more interesting.
