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Trying to affirm in part and deny in part her race history Merkle decided to call herself both black and bi-racial. Sorry, but that’s not the way it works. Her father is a white guy, Thomas “Tom” Wayne Markle Sr. He’s 100% white. Her Mom is not white but black. Meghan can call herself whatever she pleases but her racial identity is white and black. She is biracial, period.

Just what is a black biracial person? Is it a person who has more black ancestry than white? But Rachel Meghan is not black. Her mother is 100% black. Her father is 100% white. She’s half white and half black. Perhaps her individual genes did not exactly get the message. Nevertheless, they combined. That much we know. How they combined we don’t know. Even if we did there’s too much variability to explain or even predict which black genes dominated and which white genes dominated. So far as her physiological inheritance and sociological acquisitions she can shed the latter but not the former. Meghan can give up her religion, her country, and her culture. She cannot give up her race. Or, more precisely, she cannot give up the physical side of her race, which, apart from superficial alterations by plastic surgeons and beauticians, is inexorably determined by the laws of genetics, the genes and their combinations.

There are worldwide movements afoot to abolish racism however as indicated by recent events, race is far from being abolished anywhere. Instead it’s becoming intensified everywhere. Look at TV commercials. race is forced into them and the results defy believability.

Instead of attempting to destroy the indestructible, it might be wiser to learn more about homo sapiens racial reflexes. Research into the sources of racism might produce some understanding of effective ways of civilizing it, controlling it, and directing it into more creative and constructive channels. Such knowledge might also aid in distinguishing between the racial behavior that helps build nations and the racial behavior that tears them apart. Meghan and Harry are in the vanguard of the movement.

The publication in 1974 of Race by John R. Baker, an internationally renowned Oxford biologist and a Fellow of the Royal Society minced no words and ducked no issues in what one respected scientific journal called “perhaps the best documented book on human races ever published.” Baker found significant mental as well as physical differences among the races which he classified, analyzed, and evaluated with such professional skill that hardly anyone rose to challenge him. In the United States the book was generally ignored by the mass media. Race in present day America is about increasing the power of black people and diminishing the power of whites. Markles adoption of her blackness makes and proves those points.

The great American dream has been a potpourri of dreams, one of the wilder variety being that of the Melting Pot which envisioned and prophesied that any immigrant, no matter what his race, nationality or social background, once immersed in the giddy liquefaction of American life, would be transformed into a uniquely American solute with all the Old World heritage of caste and cultural disparity dissolved away.

That dream, long dying, is now dead. The Melting Pot, which worked to some extent in the time of the Old Immigration when the ingredients were more racially and culturally harmonious, failed to do its job when the New Immigration was added. Melting Pot advocates seemed to forget that different races thrown together in the same environment rather than fuse are more likely to stratify and separate. The more two different peoples grow alike in externals,” George Santayana pointed out, “the more conscious and jealous they become of diversity in their soul….” In short, the Melting Pot experiment failed. In spite of the hold that race leveling has on academia, Hollywood and the media, the races of America, instead of disappearing in some theoretical solvent, are more often than not precipitating out. The improvements in communications, the internet, and smart phones mean the race stories like the Travon Martin George Zimmerman story, the Eric Gardner story, the Michael Brown story get disseminated almost immediately. The judgments fly fast and the biasas and prejudices are juiced up faster than ever. Racism is more popular than ever and racism goes both ways.
So Race isn’t going away.

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