GrannyJay
The woman you so admire, Candace Owens, apparently derided the "hero worship" of George Floyd and said he was a criminal who put black people to shame.
My understanding is that he was found in possession of a counterfeit twenty dollar note, one of many reported to have been circulating in the neighbourhood. We do not know if he was a criminal - if you were found with a counterfeit twenty pound note would that mean you were party to the counterfeiting operation and distribution, or were aware the note was a fake?
Anyway, I find that quite irrelevant. Even if Floyd was known to the police as a habitual criminal and he was suspected of knowingly passing a counterfeit note, does that in any way justify his murder .... his neck being knelt on for 9 minutes, until he was dead, even when he and the crowd were calling out for the "torture" (for that is surely what it was) to stop?
I find Owens' and your comments appalling.
As to the original post about Meghan Markle, why was there such a different attitude displayed towards her, as compared to Kate Middleton, in much of the mainstream press:
Daily Mail:
"Not long to go! Pregnant Kate tenderly cradles her bump ......"
"Why can't Meghan Markle keep her hands off her bump? ...... Is it pride or vanity?"
"Kate's morning sickness cure? Prince William gifted with an avocado for pregnant Duchess."
"Meghan Markle's beloved avocado linked to human rights abuses and drought millenial shame."
(Note the way the two women are referred to - one in affectionate terms "Kate", the other not so chummy "Meghan Markle".)
Some might say there is nothing to suggest that this apparent underlying animosity was racially motivated - and no doubt some people just genuinely didn't take to her. However, as soon as the relationship between Harry and Meghan became more serious there certainly seemed to be a fixation on her ethnic and cultural origins, and many references to the 150 year gap that had elapsed between black people as slaves and Meghan Markle joining the royal family. An article in The Atlantic this year commented:
"This new valorization of Kate is racially inflected, because Britain’s most durable template of respectable womanhood—the “English rose”—is much less accessible to anyone foreign or dark-skinned.* The language used to indicate Meghan’s blackness has been noted by some writers, even as it fails to register with many white Britons: She is “exotic,” “urban,” “straight outta Compton.” The author Afua Hirsch told NPR that mixed-race people see in the coverage of Meghan “very colonial narratives about how we should be so grateful that we were allowed in.”
*Indeed, I recall someone on Gransnet referring, in I believe a discussion about the Harry/Meghan relationship, to Kate Middleton as a "real", or possibly "true" English Rose".
