Inverted racism ?
I'm not normally given to 'throwing things at the television' in moments of outrage but the recent radio and television coverage of the Harry/Megan interview with 'O-W' and especially the dreadful reporting by Sky News and others that closely followed, came close to me 'proverbially' chucking my PC in the canal.
Bearing in mind that apparently there is more of this dreadful soap to come, I hasten to use this instrument, possibly for the last time, before it is too late !
Firstly, this business about racism and skin colour. I contend that there is not one person alive - of any colour, race or creed in the world, with or without even the most basic biological knowledge - who didn't wonder and delight at the exciting prospects of bringing a bit of colour into the royal family, by this happy union of Harry and Megan. Nor, with hand on heart, could they say that they had not talked about it and its happy possibilities, as people do, to their family and friends, just as they would if Megan had been a fair haired, freckled lass from Dublin and that Harry's hair is ginger .
Are we to be denied this axiomatic, Darwinian phenomenon and chastise ourselves for even the slightest passing thought or tickled imagination ? Oh please!
To me, the publicity about this inflamed racist band wagon that ignorant people love to jump on, is pure and simple. I call it "inverted racism", stoked up by lazy journalists who have nothing more interesting to say, let alone write about.
"The horrible story of questions over the colour of a baby's skin is left hanging — and therefore, by implication, trashes the whole family. Was this deliberate?" - I really wonder - Could this be more sinister, like something from "The Grey Zone"?
Anybody who reveres the lifelong service of the Queen, the Duke and Prince Charles and respects their love of the Commonwealth, will know that the suggestion of racism is outrageous and beyond credibility and, the fact that most of this "crap" emanates from the USA, a country with its own more significant racial problems, is an alarming warning of the horrors yet to come.
The questions that rise irresistibly to the top of this nasty publicity stunt, like fat in a septic tank is - what did the 'royal' couple hope to achieve by allowing it to happen? How was it going to help anyone to 'wash their dirty linen' in public?
Our Queen is quite rightly pointing out that it is a private matter to be sorted within her family, who clearly have different recollections to those expressed on a foreign chat show.
...and now another extract from a piece by Peter Skerrit:
"Victimhood is the soapbox from which the new elites, whether lip-trembling politicians or ‘suffering’ celebs, presume to instruct society at large about the right way to think, emote, feel, be. This is why Meghan’s confession of suicidal thoughts was so important. It felt manipulative. It was in essence a declaration of emotional authenticity. Meghan has the right kind of emotional history to inherit the crown of the post-Diana world – that was the message."