> I was told recently of a mixed race mother who went to the nursery to collect her child at 'home time' and noticed he was in a corner.
> 'What's he doing there?"
> "Oh he's been a little monkey!'
> Cue complaint, and horror from the nursery staff member who has simply meant that the little chap had been a bit naughty that afternoon.
I was struck by how 'mixed race' was the very determined way in which Meghan Markle was described when it became clear that she was to enter the Royal family.
By contrast, umpteen famous footballers and musicians, for example, are also mixed race in the sense of one black parent and one white, yet are described (quite routinely and non-controversially) as black.
My reading of this FWIW was that we were deemed to be ready for a mixed race princess but not a black one. More than this, the mixed race aspect was promoted as a positive, but precisely because of that promotion it became at the same time very important indeed to draw a distinction (between mixed race and black) that previously had not been particularly important.
Meghan is MIXED RACE - which is brilliant! - which by the way is NOT BLACK, was the message,
So there you go. That was my take. Remarkably perceptive of me? Or disappearing up my own fundament? Not for me to judge.
> I was told recently of a mixed race mother who went to the nursery to collect her child at 'home time' and noticed he was in a corner.
> 'What's he doing there?"
> "Oh he's been a little monkey!'
> Cue complaint, and horror from the nursery staff member who has simply meant that the little chap had been a bit naughty that afternoon.
I was struck by how 'mixed race' was the very determined way in which Meghan Markle was described when it became clear that she was to enter the Royal family.
By contrast, umpteen famous footballers and musicians, for example, are also mixed race in the sense of one black parent and one white, yet are described (quite routinely and non-controversially) as black.
My reading of this FWIW was that we were deemed to be ready for a mixed race princess but not a black one. More than this, the mixed race aspect was promoted as a positive, but precisely because of that promotion it became at the same time very important indeed to draw a distinction (between mixed race and black) that previously had not been particularly important.
Meghan is MIXED RACE - which is brilliant! - which by the way is NOT BLACK, was the message,
So there you go. That was my take. Remarkably perceptive of me? Or disappearing up my own fundament? Not for me to judge.
But yeah, imperialist UK government so bad by comparison...
OH Dear someone making things up , look south for your wartime Nazi sympathisers , all your knobs and royalty were in step with them. Some real cretins on here nowadays, Little Englanders crawling out from under their rocks everywhere.
But yeah, imperialist UK government so bad by comparison...
OH Dear someone making things up , look south for your wartime Nazi sympathisers , all your knobs and royalty were in step with them. Some real cretins on here nowadays, Little Englanders crawling out from under their rocks everywhere.
But yeah, imperialist UK government so bad by comparison...
OH Dear someone making things up , look south for your wartime Nazi sympathisers , all your knobs and royalty were in step with them. Some real cretins on here nowadays, Little Englanders crawling out from under their rocks everywhere.
Appalling, you would have thought there would be safeguards against this. Let's hope someone gets the sack for this....
More likely promotion, this is Tory policy for you
If it was policy, why are they saying it was an error.
You hardly think they are going to say , oops our policies are so draconian that we scare old dears into topping themselves. We see it up here , people dying days after they have been told for for work and benefits cut etc.
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Some real cretins on here nowadays, Little Englanders crawling out from under their rocks everywhere.
https://twitter.com/champagne_lefty/status/1126164992850526210?s=19