The Royal Society

 The hot topic of discussion is the Oprah interview with Prince Harry and The Duchess Meghan Markle.

While I am not someone who likes to talk about current events often, I found this interview extremely important as it had so many layers and relates to an article I have written about in the past. 

I wrote an article called "Black Thought 101 - November."

In that article, I touched on what I believed were some of the key issues to why other races and ethnicities face difficulty in people of their own marrying into black ethnicities. 

One of the points I made was that I believed other ethnicities and cultures don't see black ethnic groups as progressive. 

When they look at black communities, they see or are told the negatives more than the beautiful things black culture has to offer. 

Meghan Markle is a mixed-race woman who married into the royal family. This isn't an actress marrying into a higher level of fame. This is a woman who has married into a world all of its own. She knows what fame is. She knows what comes with that life, but this is something that I don't think she was ready for and something that she nor Prince Harry really thought through. 

Harry and Meghan married for love. Their union was based on the bond they had built. There was no arrangement. No set up of two institutions forming one. This wasn't a business transaction. This was just about love.

But Meghan is marrying into a business. Better yet, an empire. She's married into an institution that has lived in a certain way for centuries. 

Different cultures have their way of living, and then there is the royal family way of living. Once again, Meghan Markle, an actress, is being asked, "What does she have to offer prince harry?" She's a divorcee, which in many cultures raises an eyebrow, but it is a huge red flag in the royal family. King Edward the 8th felt the Monarch's wrath by marrying a woman twice divorced, and Prince Charles still faces problems due to his marriage with Camilla. 

Meghan Markle is an actress, which means she has her own money, but that means nothing in the royal family, so what else does she have to offer him? she isn't from an upper-class family. She doesn't have an inheritance pending from a wealthy family. Meghan Markle ticks no boxes that the royal family deem to be ideal, plus she is a mixed-race woman with black in her. There is an old saying that one drop of black blood classes you as black, and with the Monarch still possessing old fashion views, Meghan, in their eyes, is only a black woman. 

She is not the first mixed-race woman in the royal family. Princess Charlotte, a great grandmother of the current Queen, was also of mixed heritage, and her existence was only discovered in recent years. 

It seems the eradication of anything with black in the royal family isn't new. Harry and Meghan's decision to depart from the Royal family has a message of white supremacy attached to it, and that is the message that makes interracial relationships with blacks an issue. 

The western worlds do one thing that is overlooked. Western society sells you an ideology. It sells you success, wealth, freedom of speech and the progression of bigger and better things, and the poster child for all of those things is a white family. White communities. They sell you white beauty. Everything that they say is good for you is European influenced. So how can you now have blackness in the highest and most famous family in the western hemisphere? It doesn't look right to them, and it doesn't go with the brand the royal family has tried to promote for centuries. Prince Harry is his mother's child. You could hear how many times he mentions her that he's still affected by the loss of his mother, being only the age of 13 at the time. He was taught to love for the goodness in people, not for social acceptance. Meghan never got the support she needed from the Royal family because she wasn't socially acceptable. In the ideals that the royal have, she doesn't fit, and they did what they felt was right to "put her in her place." The Exile of Harry and Meghan is very clear. Society runs on Racism from the bottom all the way to the very top, and no one, no even Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, is exempt from threatening society's progression. 

Black Thought 101 - November