Understatement or sarcasm? "I’m not sure that regular people will be able or willing to embrace the claims of victimhood and oppression that defined their two hour chat with Oprah." Good article. I especially love the tweet's point! But this point is great too: "But she was never as discerning as she needed to be with those whose fame blinded her into what became love-fest interviews instead of hard hitting fact finding missions. " I remember writing the producer of the Oprah show, just a mile or two away from me in Chicago, asking if they would consider having Walter Williams on the show when his book "South Africa's War Against Capitalism" came out, since he would be coming to Chicago for an event I coordinated. As I remember, I received no reply. I called and also received no satisfaction. So sad that this great man's insights on the racist apartheid system, at the time, in South Africa, and an issue in the US too, went totally unheeded by Oprah. Any obituaries by Oprah for Walter Williams when he died recently?
The entire concept of royalty is based on the assumption that royals are better than ordinary people. Don't tell me that the British royal family really gives a damn whether mere employees are "bullied" or not. They have weathered scandals (Prince Andrew included) that make poor Meghan look like a saint by comparison.
Meghan has made serious mistakes, including her decision to have a host of Black Americans (neither family nor friends) participating in her wedding or telling South African blacks that she is their "sister." Marrying into a new family (especially one as snobbish as the Windsors) is like starting a new job. You keep your head down and don't make waves. We can take it for granted that any American marrying into the British royal family would become a media target, but Meghan might as well have worn a sign saying "Kick Me."
Meghan's recent Oprah Winfrey interview was really an ignorant validation of racism in which she foolishly endorsed the "one drop rule" so beloved by blacks like Winfrey. Meghan actually said that "black" women can identify with her because they LOOK ALIKE???!!! Meghan is a brunet Caucasian, not a "black" woman. The stupid woman then compounded her racial nonsense by calling her son Archie "of color." WHAT color? Archie is as white as his dad. Of course, Winfrey did not point out the contradiction because black elites like to be represented by part-black Caucasians. Indeed, the racial inferiority complex of blacks (especially women) is on display in both the UK and the USA whenever some black or black-identified pundit is given media space to declare Meghan their new "black" princess or a representative of "black" (or pseudo-black) women in general.
I had questions of a deeper educational/moral nature. I felt like we were being taken by the racism charge/innuendo. (And this made me question the depth of the mental health issue.)
Do you believe that anyone around the Monarch would be less than absolutely thrilled to have a any child of Meghan in the family, both privately and publicly?
Thanks for writing this sis! I was just trying to watch the interview online CBS and unable to as they won't show it in Greece. After reading your article I feel I have heard what I needed to. I so appreciate you telling it like it is!
Understatement or sarcasm? "I’m not sure that regular people will be able or willing to embrace the claims of victimhood and oppression that defined their two hour chat with Oprah." Good article. I especially love the tweet's point! But this point is great too: "But she was never as discerning as she needed to be with those whose fame blinded her into what became love-fest interviews instead of hard hitting fact finding missions. " I remember writing the producer of the Oprah show, just a mile or two away from me in Chicago, asking if they would consider having Walter Williams on the show when his book "South Africa's War Against Capitalism" came out, since he would be coming to Chicago for an event I coordinated. As I remember, I received no reply. I called and also received no satisfaction. So sad that this great man's insights on the racist apartheid system, at the time, in South Africa, and an issue in the US too, went totally unheeded by Oprah. Any obituaries by Oprah for Walter Williams when he died recently?
Perhaps this article, written long after the episode I mentioned above occurred, might give one a possible insight http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams042606.asp
How dare these people complain about racism, when I am struggling to find a good avocado at Whole Foods. Thanks for your perspective!
The entire concept of royalty is based on the assumption that royals are better than ordinary people. Don't tell me that the British royal family really gives a damn whether mere employees are "bullied" or not. They have weathered scandals (Prince Andrew included) that make poor Meghan look like a saint by comparison.
Meghan has made serious mistakes, including her decision to have a host of Black Americans (neither family nor friends) participating in her wedding or telling South African blacks that she is their "sister." Marrying into a new family (especially one as snobbish as the Windsors) is like starting a new job. You keep your head down and don't make waves. We can take it for granted that any American marrying into the British royal family would become a media target, but Meghan might as well have worn a sign saying "Kick Me."
Meghan's recent Oprah Winfrey interview was really an ignorant validation of racism in which she foolishly endorsed the "one drop rule" so beloved by blacks like Winfrey. Meghan actually said that "black" women can identify with her because they LOOK ALIKE???!!! Meghan is a brunet Caucasian, not a "black" woman. The stupid woman then compounded her racial nonsense by calling her son Archie "of color." WHAT color? Archie is as white as his dad. Of course, Winfrey did not point out the contradiction because black elites like to be represented by part-black Caucasians. Indeed, the racial inferiority complex of blacks (especially women) is on display in both the UK and the USA whenever some black or black-identified pundit is given media space to declare Meghan their new "black" princess or a representative of "black" (or pseudo-black) women in general.
https://multiracial.com/index.php/2004/09/01/white-racial-identity-racial-mixture-and-the-one-drop-rule/
Thanks for the school take. Very good.
I had questions of a deeper educational/moral nature. I felt like we were being taken by the racism charge/innuendo. (And this made me question the depth of the mental health issue.)
Do you believe that anyone around the Monarch would be less than absolutely thrilled to have a any child of Meghan in the family, both privately and publicly?
I can't.
So what was really happening here?
Thanks for writing this sis! I was just trying to watch the interview online CBS and unable to as they won't show it in Greece. After reading your article I feel I have heard what I needed to. I so appreciate you telling it like it is!