22 8 / 2018

Anonymous asked: I can tell you as a Brit, our media is incredibly racist, and racism is definitely at play with the Meghan Markle coverage. It disturbs me that some anons think just because CB bashes one woman and idolises another, that it's okay to bash the women they idolise and idolise the women they bash. Surely the lesson is not to arbitrarily bash/idolise women in the first place? Not 'solve' CB's problems by copying their behaviour but in reverse?

Sure, British society is racist, just like American, and on top of it, it is also obsessed with class and is very insular. In the US the other two things don’t matter nearly as much. Here money trumps both class and nationality.

So, Meghan has to deal with at least three things at once. She was familiar with racism, of course. But I don’t know if she was aware of the other two, and the degree to which they would affect her.  This is one of the reasons I ended up in the US and not in Western Europe. I worked there and I decided life was too short to deal with that kind of nonsense.I was never going to be good enough for some people, simply because I wasn’t born there.

As for comments, I judge people on their own merits, on their actions. It has nothing to do with who CB likes or dislikes. But I can’t speak for other people who comment here. And I am not going to ignore them, even if I disagree. Everyone can discuss their disagreements in the open.