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Prince Harry says upbringing blinded him to unconscious racial bias

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The prince spoke during a conversation about racism with Patrick Hutchinson, the Black activist who was photographed by Reuters carrying a white man to safety during a scuffle between anti-racism protesters and far-right opponents in London in June.

Harry told Hutchinson he saw him as a"guardian angel" protecting everyone at the demonstration. Both men said there was still work to be done to defeat discrimination of all kinds.

"And then, sad as it is to say, it took me many, many years to realise it, especially then living a day or a week in my wife's shoes," added the prince. Meghan's father is white and her mother is African American.

 

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I'm glad he figured it out. I was lucky to have been taught this from a young age. That we as humans have a natural but wrong fear of anything 'Other'. And that this fear often leads to bigotry.

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