Foreign Policy article: What the Royal Establishment did to Megan and Harry is fatal racism

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 published by Foreign Policy, everyone expected Oprah Winfrey's interview with the Duchess of Sussex to be bad and harmful, but no one expected it to be so bad and harmful.

Nils Abe, a British writer of Nigerian roots, explained - in this article - that Meghan Markle, the first "black" princess in the country, offered an opportunity to address Britain's brutal and complicated relationship with race, but this opportunity was strongly destroyed due to the racism of the royal establishment itself.

He presented some statements to Meghan during an interview in which she told about the minors' concerns about the color of her son Archie, before his birth, and the prevention of her and Harry from receiving security information, and the failure of the royal family to support her husband, even when she demanded that her, her husband and son be protected from the racist campaign against them in the British press, as well as Not helping her when she was contemplating suicide, she said.

Fatal racism

The writer commented in his article in "Foreign Policy" that this racism is dangerous and possibly fatal, at the summit of Britain and the Commonwealth of Nations.

The marriage of Megan and Harry marked the moment when black people could no longer be denied in the United Kingdom, and that those (black) citizens who, along with their ancestors, had borne the weight of the British Empire for centuries.

(This) marriage indicated that they had finally broken into every passage of British society, "and in that there were endless possibilities," he added.

Among these possibilities - as the writer says - is to strengthen the power of monarchy itself, even on the international stage and across the African diaspora.

It was a great moment

The writer spoke about Meghan's arrival at Buckingham Palace and described it as a really great moment, noting that black women in his family and in his office asked loudly before marriage: Will a helicopter land in the Buckingham neighborhoods or the Seven Sisters in London so that Megan can buy hair and skin care products ?

Will it allow her to become natural or will royal protocol require her to straighten her hair?

Will she be allowed to speak on black issues?

And when something happens in society, will she be able to be a voice for blacks?

He also said that some of this was a joke, but the thinking was clear: Is she allowed to be herself a woman of color?

Stressing that after meeting Oprah, blacks now have a resounding answer to (like) those questions.

He added that the Megan and Harry Union should have brought the individuals and components of the nation closer together, and given British soft power a huge boost, which shed light on a country confident enough in itself to embrace a black American woman at the heart of her own power, and to evaluate what she represents, but rather than That, the opposite happened.

He concluded by saying that the royal establishment, as Megan refers to it, moved by following Prince Philip's leadership, from working to defend Megan from press hostility, lies and intrusiveness, to preventing her from defending herself from attacks, to briefing the press against her, and (what) is worse than that. Much.