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  • Here we go ago...subtle dig at #meghanmarkle. It feels as if it’s being made out that Meghan has used her dark mysterious gold digging arts (also a huge old stereotype of the exotic temptress often cast on WOC in the past) to lure this fair prince of the realm into a life of peace, independence and more privacy. Prince Harry is a grown, brave man who served in the army who knows his own mind and this headline just screams...see Meghan this is how to behave yourself... #megxit #sussexroyal
  • Megxit has opened up and revealed some really deep rooted issues and shone a light on what casual racism looks like and has been challenged people’s perception of what racism looks like in our modern society. This image shows the punishment and. what would happen to an “uppity” (a term coined by Southerners in the US for slaves who thought they were equal to or would dare look their owners in the eye). She would be publicly ridiculed, whipped and mocked for not knowing her place in the structure of her society. Sound familiar....and why this issue has blown up. Slavery wasn’t that long ago historically just a few grandmas ago and I still live the the hangover of not even being considered a human being a few grandmas ago. This prejudice is so ingrained in our language and culture it has become invisible but of like me you are a POC you are still gassed by this toxic attitude and treatment most days. Meghan has been a victim of this in the language used in describing her, in her “uppity” impertinence in thinking she can look the establishment in the eye and walk her own path with a Prince of the realm- how dare she. Do you remember when the thought of divorce in the royal family would rip the monarchy apart...things change but the venom towards Meghan is based on racism in my opinion. In my life, this impertinence has been put on me when I was parked in a posh neighbourhood in London waiting for my husband....a woman angrily beeped at me and gestured for me to roll down the window...I said I was in the parking space and waiting for a while. She told me she wanted the space and did I even have the right to have resident parking in the area (trust me she wouldn’t dream of talking to someone else like this) she felt she could talk to me this way for being “uppity” sitting in my car in a posh area where I probably didn’t belong. This is not an experience many of my friends who aren’t POC have experienced so it’s hard to believe people act this way but they do...lynching, whipping, beatings and being considered a beast has not been in the history and experience of the people who say this is not a racist issue. I’m telling you it is #meghanmarkle #megxit #casualracism
  • Thanks everyone for sharing and having an open and stimulating discussion on my post on Meghan and my experience of casual racism. I love this quote and I think it speaks to the many people who have dismissed my experience, have said I am being oversensitive and have proclaimed that racism doesn’t exist anymore. There doesn’t have to be a burning cross in my garden, being threatened with being lynched or being called the N word in the Street, which many people have suffered. The racism that I face and I’m talking about is quiet, demeaning and just as harmful. It’s the racism Meghan has faced when articles describe her as being exotic or stating that her mother is descended from slaves...how often are other public figures described as...his great great grandfather used to work in a coal mine up north....now he’s a public figure...how fantastic..this would seem strange but it’s ok for Meghan to be described like this. I think a lot of venom towards Meghan comes from her being perceived as being “uppity” that “someone like her” should seek to live her life and find her happiness on her own terms when she should be grateful. I think Megxit has exposed a whole level of racism people didn’t realised existed and it’s painful and embarrassing to face this truth #meghanmarkle #equality #megxit
  • Really proud to have spoken to @spacenk #insidespace about my love of adult ballet and how it helped to heal my soul and body. Thank you to my wonderful teachers @karisscarlette @11roubles #adultballet #heal #ballet #mindfulness
  • Huge congrats to British actress @cynthiaerivo on her #Oscars nomination and shining a light on more diverse stores. I’m studied history at university and I know history is written by the victors and still so many stories have been buried and not celebrated like the one Cynthia portrays as #harriettubman a runaway slave who went back and rescued and saved over 70 slaves, was an armed scout and spy in the American Civil War and found for Women’s suffrage and rights. I’m 41 and never knew about her. She was never a heroine I knew off growing up and would have loved to learn about, her exploits were never taught to me or shown anyway on TV or in any school books...we need more light shine on history, people and stories from more diverse backgrounds #diversity #Oscars
  • To anyone who doesn’t understand what “casual racism” looks like...look no further than these 2 headlines a year apart. I experience some form of casual racism on a daily basis..whether it’s having to wave and say hello in my posh accent when walking in the countryside to assure the startled walkers that I’m not one of “those” black people. It’s sitting in restaurants and seeing my white friends’ water glasses be filled up, while mine is left empty. It’s sitting in a restaurant working for an hour with no menu and as soon as my blonde blue eyed husband walks in and sits with me, he’s handed a menu (still none for me who had been sitting there all that time). It’s a quiet toxic gas of being “othered”, being seen as less than and dangerous, of assuming a negative back story to your upbringing and views. It’s like being lightly slapped 5 times a day, while my husband gets 5 light hugs a day while going about his daily business. Neither is correct and both are entirely based on melanin. It’s very strange but it’s the truth. #equality #racism #casualracism #megxit #meghanmarkle
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