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British White Supremacy Simply Can’t Leave Meghan Markle Alone

British racism is more sophisticated than the American brand. It’s insidious. it’s like death by a million microaggressions.

Nadine Drummond
Momentum
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4 min readMar 6, 2021

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Meghan Markle on October 31, 2018 in Rotorua, New Zealand. Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage/Getty Images

Meghan Markle has left Britain, paid back taxpayer’s money, conceded all of her titles and privileges, but she is still vilified by much of the British media. Her resistance to anti-Black racist aggression challenges their efforts to preserve White supremacy. Meghan’s resistance doesn’t allow the White ignorance and dominance needed to maintain the wider structures of White privilege.

I never thought Meghan Markle joining the royal family represented a changing institution in a changing British society. I saw Meghan’s inclusion as a straight hustle for the royal family to make themselves relevant for another hundred years and to justify living off of British taxpayer’s money while maintaining and contributing to systems of inequality.

You see, Prince William, Harry’s elder brother and second in line to the British throne, married a “commoner” when he tied the knot with Kate Middleton. Kate’s father was a pilot, and her mother was a flight attendant who then went on to run a successful small business. This union broke the class glass…

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Nadine Drummond
Nadine Drummond

Written by Nadine Drummond

Bacchanalist🧨, Journalist🥇, Filmmaker 🎬, aspiring vegan 🌱 with 👸🏾Feminist politics who praises Rastafari🔥 & studies no Evil💕.

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