Prince harry says he and his wife have been bought together for a reason!

Oh bless, they seem to think this award makes them important in some way!
I wonder how long it will take them to realise that they're utterly irrelevant!?

A woman of colour, as she refers to herself, marries a white man in 2018 and they get an award for it.

My Dad was very involved with the RAFA after he served in WW2. He and half a dozen others funraised and bought a unit to open as a club. They worked very hard with all the renovations themselves.

One man would turn up very occasionally with a clipboard and local newspaper photographer to get himself into the paper. He eventually got himself an OBE - other b*ggers efforts as my dad called it.

FannyCornforth

Not knocking the NAACP at all, not that I’d heard of it before, which will rather further my point; which is:
These type of awards are often given to high profile and oft photographed, glamorous people in order to get publicity for the charity or organisation.
It’s nothing new

Yes, people like Muhammad Ali, Jesse Jackson and Colin Powell

Only interested in themselves, it's a disgrace.

Sigh ?
Do you have to argue about everything volver?
Have a day off, it must be exhausting

No, everything. I have to argue about everything.

Except gardening.

I don't know anything about gardening so I'm happy to keep my mouth shut. And economics.

Why didn’t she receive the honour when she married her first husband

I thought they wanted a nice private life and to stay out of the limelight? Harry on his own but Megan ………………………..NO!

Anyway volver, I didn’t mean all awards are given for publicity, just some (which of course you knew already - so I don’t know why I’m wasting my metaphorical breath!)

It’s not so much the arguing, but the quibbling.
But we’re all guilty of that.

As I said in another thread, it should be GN’s answer to Wordle and Nerdle: Quibble

Well I checked and the award is for their work with a women's centre in Texas, for fighting for equity in Covid Vaccines and for workng in partnership to create community relief centres.
But god forbid anyone on GN should acknowledge their work

halfpint1

Wow , why read the thread if it's so
Irritating to you.
I wondered why they had won this award as well and thought maybe their good deeds were not being focused on as much as the bitching.

Seems like the same logic should apply to a news article about the two if reading about them is so upsetting.

What are these two on? The wacky backy me thinks!

nadateturbe

FannyCornforth

Is it me ( I know that it isn’t ) but GN is really, really hard work at the moment.
It seems that everyone is accusing everyone else of being ‘bitchy ‘
It’s bonkers !

It's not just you.

I agree it's not just you. Why use the term "bitchy", when it in itself is discriminatory towards women when this is a site used mostly by women. We all have our thoughts and ideas we should be able to air them without being called "Bitchy", which I would definitely object to if used to my face.

Anniebach

Why didn’t she receive the honour when she married her first husband

They were too busy handing out packets of dope at their wedding it stopped her qualifying.

Not bitchy, no, not bitchy at all.

Remind me, which is the written one, slander or libel?

Juggernaut

Oh bless, they seem to think this award makes them important in some way!
I wonder how long it will take them to realise that they're utterly irrelevant!?

Not to black Americans, clearly.

To old British people, maybe. Meh

Doesn't the queen hand out honours to her offspring for ...well just being her offspring! Rows of medals and yards of gold braid for doing exactly what you accuse M and H of doing turning up shaking hands having their name on notepaper /
Thats different? Thats a PROPER RF thing !

I'm not surprised at all that they got an award from NAACP. Meghan and Harry actually do stuff, rather than just pretending to do so - e.g. the Grenfell Tower cookbook, Harry's Invictus Games and many other initiatives. It must have been a huge culture shock for the Royals when Meghan married in, with her dynamism and work ethic. I'll probably be slated on this thread for my opinion, but personally the Royal family made a grave error in not helping her settle. I think noses were put out of joint -and particularly Kate and William felt threatened by them. The Royals in comparison now look like a moribund, static, dying, dysfunctional institution limping its way on. They certainly have nothing tangible to offer - oh sorry, Kate's inspirational early years work - which is what exactly?

What an excellent idea Volver, haven’t they got a media page (book) somewhere dedicated to their good works and lifestyle choices that benefit the Planet. They would make excellent advisors/counsellors on so many subjects. ie. Dealing diplomatically with family problems, perhaps mediating between parties. Managing on a budget, coping with two very young children.

And ‘how to lie and lie and lie ‘

Juggernaut

Oh bless, they seem to think this award makes them important in some way!
I wonder how long it will take them to realise that they're utterly irrelevant!?

They will become irrelevant when people stop reading about them and subsequently commenting.

Because if no one's interested, the 'meeja' won't profit from churning out endless column inches about them. So they won't bother.

... and that's how they will become irrelevant. No one will know what they do or don't do unless they seek out the information. And as people have stated they're not interested in this couple and wish they'd go away (or words to that effect) - they won't bother to seek out the information - then, voila! they're irrelevant!

fighting for equity in Covid Vaccines

How did they actually fight? I remember them mentioning it but what else did they do? Anything?

After all, I mentioned it to some friends.... does that mean that I fought for it too?

Sparklefizz I know. It’s utterly ludicrous

I do wonder what sort of role models they are to their children for the way they both have trashed their own families so publicly. I wonder how Archie and Lilibet will treat their own parents in the future?

volver

Not bitchy, no, not bitchy at all.

Remind me, which is the written one, slander or libel?

Ask Simon and Garfunkel.