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Posted: 2020-06-02T18:59:58Z | Updated: 2020-06-03T02:48:44Z

A video of Meghan Markle speaking up about being biracial and fighting racism is making the rounds online as protests continue after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer.

Meghan, who has a Black mother and a white father, participated in a 2012 video for the Erase the Hate campaign. In the clip, she wore a shirt that said I wont stand for racism and discussed discrimination .

Im biracial. Most people cant tell what Im mixed with and so much of my life has felt like being a fly on the wall, said Meghan, who was then starring in Suits.

She noted the slurs and really offensive jokes shed heard. A couple of years ago I heard someone call my mom the n-word, Meghan said. So I think for me beyond being personally affected by racism to see the landscape of what our country is like right now and certainly the world and to want things to be better.

Quite honestly, your race is part of what defines you. I think what shifts things is that the world really treats you based on how you look, she continued.