Roots.

about being a black sheep of the family and the resolution behind this sometimes-shameful title.

Meghan revealed that she never thought race would play such a large role in her marriage because it was never an issue for her growing up in L.A.

“Most people didn’t treat me like a Black woman,” Meghan said of her childhood. “Now people are very aware of my race because they made it such an issue in the UK.”

Harry (described as a black sheep for marrying Meghan and choosing his own path) said the royals never understood that Meghan’s race played a role in how she was treated.

“What people need to understand is, as far as a lot of the family were concerned, everything that she was being put through, they’d been put through as well,” he said, adding, “so it’s almost a rite of passage.”

Lisa Forbes, a native of Chicago, has overcome trauma as well as sexual, emotional and religious assault.

Forbes told the Michigan Chronicle that the black sheep of the family is someone who has been selected to be the person “upon whom everyone else projects their own negativity or unwanted traits.”

“The black sheep will often be accused of thinking something unsuitable when it is the accuser who is thinking it, or of doing something objectionable when it is the accuser who is doing it,” Forbes said, adding that the black sheep will also have “no voice in the group.” “It is a source of chronic high stress, which is damaging both physically and emotionally. It can cause feelings of not being good enough, rejection, aloneness and depression. Feeling misunderstood and as if you “don’t belong” can lead to isolation and avoidance of other relationships.”

Forbes said that she was the black