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sussex-sweetheart · 1 year

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Racism at Buckingham Palace:

#british royal family #brf #meghan markle #duchess of sussex #prince harry #duke of sussex #prince charles #king charles 3rd #dr shola mos shogbamimu #sistah space #ngozi fulani

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jerseydeanne · 1 year

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"‘Lady Susan was formally asked to represent the Princess Royal at the service,’ a family friend said. ‘She was more than happy to do so. Her official position was recorded in the order of service. It’s great to see her back in the royal fold.’"

#lady susan hussey #princess anne #british royal family #ngozi fulani

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theiconicmeghanmarkle · 1 year

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“Where are you really from?” is an old classic out of the wide spectrum of racist remarks intended to other and alienate people of colour.

It’s a question so loaded it’s heavy; weighing down on dormant feelings of not truly belonging in the country you’re born in. Acceptance in the UK can seem conditional when you’re a minority, based on just how much you’re willing to bow to Queen (now King) and country; Black British football players are worthy when scoring goals for England on a global stage but are quickly condemned, ridiculed and racially abused when they fail.

Ngozi Fulani was deemed excellent enough to be invited by the Queen consort, Camilla, to the palace and still was made to feel she didn’t belong.

As a biracial, divorced, American actor, Markle understands full well the feeling of otherness after marrying into the British royal institution — she already told us.

Now, it seems, that Markle is remaining strong in her vindication era. With timing so perfect it was almost delicious, Netflix released the trailer for Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s latest tell-all documentary just as the latest royal race row reached fever pitch. *chef’s kiss*.

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jackoshadows · 1 year

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Mandu Reid, Leader of the Women’s Equality Party, sympathises with Meghan Markle’s account of the Royal Family and that there is a pattern of institutional racism

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Ngozi Fulani about her experience:

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ingek73 · 1 year

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We didn’t ask for Lady Hussey to resign. But, really, the monarchy must do better on race

Mandu Reid

I witnessed the racist remarks, but blaming one person alone distracts from the depth and breadth of racism in that institution

Published: 19:31 Thursday, 01 December 2022

I generally avoid news about the royals. So it was a real eye-opener to find myself at the centre of a royal story. At a reception on Tuesday to honour those working to end violence against women and girls, I witnessed racist remarks from a member of the royal household directed at my friend and fellow activist, Ngozi Fulani. Lady Hussey’s prolonged interrogation about where Ngozi was really from, what her nationality was and where her people were from, was not – as many people have insisted to me over the past 24 hours – the kind of well-meaning curiosity that all of us experience from time to time (though it’s possible that Hussey believed that it was).

“Hackney” was Ngozi’s answer, but Hussey refused to accept this. Her response implied that Black and brown people couldn’t really be British. It implied that we were trespassing – and it made me reflect on the increasingly hostile environment of this disunited kingdom.

Even so, the media furore feels disproportionate, given the avalanche of huge stories you might expect to be dominating the news cycle. It’s not that this one isn’t serious. Racism always is, which is why I’ve spoken out. But something about this media frenzy feels … off. Even as I write this, interview requests are coming in faster than I can say no to (in one case my refusal was countered with the offer of a huge fee). If you have seen the emergency appeal that the Women’s Equality party launched this week, you will understand how hard that particular refusal was, though it confirmed why my decision had been right in the first place.

The initial calls I received were from journalists not looking for my account, but my corroboration. It took some time to realise that it was the very fact that the incident had been “witnessed” that made it significant, and forced the palace to respond swiftly (and in my view, unsatisfactorily). Unlike when the Duchess of Sussex made her accounts of royal racism, such as the “concerns” that were expressed over how dark her son’s skin might be, the palace wasn’t able to deny or deflect this time. It couldn’t rerun the famous line that “recollections may vary”, because three of us have identical, and identically uncomfortable, recollections of that encounter.

Soon after the first media reports were published, the palace announced that Hussey had resigned. This is a gambit that I have become increasingly familiar with since the Women’s Equality party started campaigning against police misogyny. What I’ve learned is that the “bad apple” narrative is potent not only because it masquerades as taking responsibility without the institution having to do any such thing, but also because it often helps drive a backlash against the “woke brigade” for cancelling yet another innocent. I see that “She’s 83” is now trending on Twitter, imploring us to leave this nice old lady alone, a stance that adds a dash of ageism to the racism that has pervaded much of the commentary.

The funny thing is, neither Ngozi nor I wanted Hussey to receive the grand order of the boot. Ngozi didn’t even name her publicly; it was social media that did this, immediately seizing on the story as another chance to form into polarised rival camps. Instead of stepping down, Hussey should be encouraged to step up, along with senior members of the royal household. This is much bigger than one individual: blaming Hussey risks minimising and distracting from the depth and breadth of racism that is enshrined in an institution that carries the heritage of empire, slavery and inequality (we are their subjects, after all).

Buckingham Palace trumpets its commitment to diversity and inclusion on its website. In a statement on Wednesday, it promised to remind staff of its policies. That’s a big ask when its own annual reports show a lack of diversity among the upper echelons of its staff. The palace’s history is dotted with failures of inclusion. Still, it’s not the worst of the royal courts. Anecdotal evidence suggests that honour falls to Kensington Palace, which didn’t even release this data in its last annual report.

Perhaps a starting point for an institution where staff think it’s OK to touch a Black woman’s hair or question her belonging would be signing up to cultural competence training. I know just the organisation to provide that. Sistah Space, the charity Ngozi runs to support African and Caribbean heritage women affected by domestic and sexual abuse, offers such courses to institutions that don’t know where to begin.

Wouldn’t it be something if Buckingham Palace asked for their help? It would certainly chime with the Queen Consort’s speech at the reception, in which she said that the starting point for responding to survivors of abuse was listening to them and believing them. Perhaps, one day, that principle could extend to Meghan too.

Mandu Reid is leader of the Women’s Equality party

#mandu reid #ngozi fulani #meghan markle #duchess of sussex #brf #royals #british royal family #racist royal family

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kemetic-dreams · 1 year

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#ngozi fulani #african #afrakan #African names #kemetic dreams #brownskin #afrakans #africans #brown skin #african culture #afrakan spirituality #afrakan woman #deep reddish brown skin #epic video #Fulani #ngozi

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theverticalwoman · 1 year

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I had promised myself I wouldn’t jump on the #MeghanMarkleisToxic bandwagon.

But now I am simply enraged at this latest “Lady Susan” development; obviously used by the Meghan and Harry PR camp to promote their crap, and simultaneously destroy The Wales efforts in the USA!

I have been asked a thousand times, many times rudely, « where I was from » by many Blacks/ Asians/ Whites in this country, England. It is what happens when you move to London. Everyone is from somewhere outside the UK: Italians, Somalians, Egyptians, Chinese, Americans, Polish, Chileans… People ask each other where they were born. There is a proper way to ask, of course; and I can understand that “Ngozi” (is that her real name?…) was vexed and uncomfortable.

Yet how many times have I been argued down by Brazilians, Eritreans, Congoleses, who thought I was “really from” their own land… Rude? Yes. Racists?…. As you wish to make it. But to make a PRESS TOUR ABOUT IT??!!

The turn of events magically turning the Royal Family as “institutionallyracist” really infuriates me! That expression is so often overused; and this ridicules the efforts of a whole race: people under real oppression, people finding it difficult to get work because of their appearance, you name it…

Meghan and Harry just so happen to be releasing their Netflix “effort” today, the very day after a scandal erupted around Lady Susan’s comments. They are also getting an award in a few days for their “efforts” at resisting the “racist” pressures from the monarchy.

Meghan Markle was treated very decently by the Windsors, as far as I and the rest of the UK could see. Many doors were opened for her, publicly and privately, which were not EVER for other ladies marrying into the family. Charles went and furnished her “fake” wedding with preacher, choir, and wedding dress: all paid for by him, who was made to be the most racist person alive 3 years later! He walked her down the aisle; as apparently “Dear daddy” was an evil bastard, and the entire rest of her extended family were also incapable of fulfilling the task… He also took her mothers hand to walk her out of the church.

Four years after her “fake” wedding, she has never stopped attacking them; not just as an institution, but as a family. Publicly. And as a “private” person too, of course.

This is all going to end very badly.

The couple (whilst still holding on to their titles) have done nothing but attack, whine, and vindicate. Harry Windsor used to be close to his brother, his sister-in-law, his grandmother, his friends. He has insulted them on public platforms ever since his wife came on the scene. He has been at war with the Wales for 5 whole years. HOW BADLY WAS MEGHAN TREATED, REALLY?? And WHAT DOES SHE WANT??!…

This has gone way too far; and yet is not over. There is the memoir, the Netflix series; and God knows what else.

This latest addition to the saga only means more strife; as the Ngozi woman’s encounter with Lady Susan is now directly paralleled with Meghan’s “ordeals”. In the press, people speak of nothing else but her “daily tribulations within the family”.

But Misery loves company.

What do you know??… Somebody wears African and Rastafarian statements ALL OVER their person: then only goes and GETS OFFENDED when asked where she’s really from! Shouldn’t one be PROUD of stating the African heritage they’re so LOUDLY BOASTING ABOUT through their clothing??

Again: Blacks approach Blacks with that question ALL THE TIME!

Talk about building PR out of a cretinous encounter, for ones “charity” and for ones idol Markle!

Talk about stirring up the pot! Whatan unnecessary mess! What a disaster!

Someone end this crap. Right now.

#meghanmarkleistoxic #ImNotaRoyalistButIloveJustice

#Meghan #meghan Markle #racism #Ngozi Fulani #lady susan #royal family #British royal family #Politics #political debate

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yaelbolender · 1 year

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I am still shocked by the racism aspect, and freaking out regarding the coronation, for the Harry

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backtonormallife · 1 year

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Very smart of BP to release a picture.

#british royal family #brf #lady susan hussey #sister space #ngozi fulani

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srilanka1234 · 1 year

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#susan hussey #racism row #ngozi fulani #prince william's godmother #harry and meghan #netflix #royals #buckingham palace

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sussex-sweetheart · 1 year

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#british royal family #brf #ngozi fulani #sistah space #fucking racists #this is the cost of speaking up #they do this to harry and meghan too #meghan markle #duchess of sussex #prince harry #duke of sussex

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jerseydeanne · 1 year

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#ngozi fulani #jeremy vine #british royal family #fake racism #racism

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theiconicmeghanmarkle · 1 year

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Buckingham Palace & Kensington Palace lied. In the first statement, the palace claimed that they "reached out to Ngozi Fulani"

Ngozi said that they didn't, so then the palace changed the statement to say that they reached out to the organization. Soon after, Kensington Palace claimed to have contacted Ngozi to discuss the situation, which turned out to be a lie as well.

If the palaces are so openly lying, one wonders if Hussey really did resign or if she'll simply lay low for a few months, then resume her inquisition of POC on the palace grounds.

If the lies weren't bad enough, the usual palace propagandists such as Dan Wootton and Petronella Wyatt are attacking and attempting to undermine Ngozi and the organization she works with.

As if that wasn't bad enough, now royalist trolls are gaslighting and bullying Ngozi using the same tactics that they've used on Meghan. Using inflammatory and disgusting hashtags about her. One wonders if William and Chucky will speak out about that. Doubt it.

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ingek73 · 1 year

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In Buckingham Palace and outside it, we know what it means when people ask ‘where are you from’

Kohinoor Sahota

When Susan Hussey asked that of a black British charity boss, she echoed the words of many who alienate people of colour

Wed 30 Nov 2022 18.22 GMT

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Charity leader Ngozi Fulani, centre left, at Buckingham Palace

“Where are you from?” is a question that every person in my family has been asked, from my parents in the 1960s to my little nephew, crying on his way back from school. I’ve faced the question from schoolteachers who want to know if I speak English, dates trying to exoticise me – and a manager who laughed afterwards, knowing he should not have asked.

“Where are you really from?” is the follow-up, if you don’t give someone what they want. While the question can come from a place of curiosity, it is hard to ignore the sinister undertones, especially when it’s repeated.

So, when I read that Ngozi Fulani, the head of a domestic abuse charity, was questioned where she was from while in Buckingham Palace, I wasn’t surprised. What did surprise me, however, is how it has become headline news and a sackable offence, as the honorary member of the royal household who asked the question has since apologised and resigned. Dear, oh dear.

Fulani’s story is every person of colour’s story. I wish I could say it’s unique. I wish I could say that nobody else has been asked such a thing. But that isn’t the case; if it seems unique it is simply because not all of the people of colour get the chance to tell their story. I have had my own day out at Buckingham Palace, and found it similarly unwelcoming.

The grandest invitation I ever received as a journalist was to attend an exhibition at the palace. It arrived in a small cream envelope, with my name – spelt correctly – in calligraphy.

Regardless of whether you’re a kid from a council estate like me, or a prime minister going to a weekly audience with the monarch, I imagine that everyone feels some sense of wonderment when they drive up the Mall. Fulani probably felt the same. In the palace, your eyes widen as you are blinded by the bling – there’s lots to take in, after all – with the sky-high ceiling, crystal chandeliers and that balcony.

‘In the palace, your eyes widen as you are blinded by the bling.’ Camilla, the Queen Consort gives a speech at Buckingham Palace. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/AFP/Getty Images

The crowd was all establishment figures in Savile Row-worthy suits and designer dresses: Tory politicians, mid-level royals, a David Attenborough here (talking in that wisdom-filled staccato tone), and a David Starkey there. There’s feeling out of place, but then, sure, there is this. Almost any person would feel some discomfort, but when you also realise that every single person in the room is oh-so white, darling, it’s one of the most uncomfortable feelings in the world.

There were jokes about the “exotic” art in reference to the Asian pieces. Someone recognised one of their aristocratic ancestors in a portrait on display as if that were ordinary – it consolidated how somebody like me could never belong in the establishment.

The only person I saw all night that looked like me – aside from a glimpse of Patricia Scotland – was a single Asian man. We locked eyes and smiled at each other. I’m sure if we’d have spoken I’d have had more in common with him than anyone else at the party. But he was a waiter, and I was a guest. In that moment, you are reminded that it’s merely by an accident of birth – or, more accurately, the aftereffects of colonialism – that you’re on one side and they’re on the other.

It all reminded me of the pervasive feeling of not belonging. That is why “where are you from” is such a politically loaded question. The answer should be simple, but it is a way for people – white people – to rank you on the social ladder. I know what I am actually being asked: why is the colour of your skin different? Why are you brown? Why aren’t you white? Why are you here? Should you be here?

Since I am brown-skinned and Indian, time and time again I have to prove my Britishness. When people ask me where I’m from, saying “Oxford” never meets their expectations. I’ve had enough. If I don’t call out the question, I allow the problem to persist; if I do call out the question, I make white people uncomfortable.

The thing is, I’ve assimilated into their version of Britain, so it’s time for them to assimilate into mine and the “minority” version – a multicultural, truly British society. The face of Britain is changing. Whether you like it or not, there are more and more people who look like me. The British story is a multicultural story. Whether it’s Labour MP Robin Cook hailing curry as the national dish, the most diverse team making up the England football squad, and now the first British prime minister of colour being of Indian descent – we are part of the fabric of Britain.

But who gets the privilege of being labelled British has always been a controversial subject. Ever since Britain began its overseas expansion, people of colour have been made to feel like guests in our own home as well as our new home – welcomed with one hand and scolded with the other.

Working-class people of colour are unlikely to stumble upon people that share their melanin, let alone long-lost relatives on the walls of galleries, museums or Buckingham bloody Palace. So, let’s make everyone feel welcome.

It’s time to start asking new questions.

Kohinoor Sahota is an arts and culture journalist. She is working on a book titled Where Are You Really From?

#kohinoor sahota #brf #royals #susan hussey #ngozi fulani #camilla parker bowles #racism #racist royal family

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mercyfulgrace · 1 year

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One Savage to another: From Ngozi Fulani to Candace Owens

Candance Owens & Ngozi have a few nuggets of wisdom on #diversity & #inclusion for us #today - Aremuorin #CandaceOwens #NgoziFulani #Aremuorin #MercyfulGrace

Written by Aremuorin Unless you are on Pluto or Mars, you would have heard of these two formidable voices. As much as I believe education is paramount, diversity and inclusion can never be undermined, the tone in which we pursue this, is key. Personally, I ask about folk’s heritage as I want to learn. For example, I still can’t distinguish between Canadians and Americans when they speak, so I…

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#Afrika #america #Anxiety #Aremuorin #Candace Owens #China #depression #Japan #Korea #Love #Malaysia #MercyfulGrace Blog #Ngozi Fulani #SAVAGE

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skippyv20 · 1 year

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Comment: for their Netflix Misery series Part 2

A source said the Sussexes want to 'sit down with Royal Family' before next May

May is when King Charles is to be crowned, with Harry and Meghan set to attend

But friends suggest chances of reconciliation are slim after Netflix bombshells

#harry meghan want apology lady susan hussey met black campaigner ngozi fulani

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