It doesn't matter what Meghan Markle knew or didn't know about the monarchy. She could have written a dissertation on the subject and none of that knowledge would have changed the impact of being asked how Black her child would be. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… 
There's no reason to make the assumption that Markle could not comprehend a world beyond "Jamba Juice" & celebrity. Importantly, her complaints were not, "This is a world of new customs," but, rather, "This is racist." So what kind of "learning" are we asking WOC to do, exactly?
Given Markle's description of her experience, it doesn't sound like the nature of her complaints is tied to ignorance of royal customs or how the Monarch supposedly relates to the realm & to God
It sounds like she's being asked to learn to be a more compliant target of racism
It sounds like she's being asked to learn to be a more compliant target of racism
It seems some wish to argue, in a positive sense, that the monarchy & its religious & national importance should be intrinsically tied to the whiteness of babies. That for a woman to believe otherwise points to her own scorn-worthy ignorance about the value of such an institution
A WOC who is offended by being asked about her child's race is not the ignorant one. Such offense does not mean she cannot conceive of a universe beyond Jamba Juice & Gaga. It is rather the racists themselves who enforce a limited world by constantly advancing whiteness-above-all
Wait. . . . .Desmond Tutu? Are you kidding me? How do you even make this mistake?
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