Of course the media will climb on the bandwagon and print anything and everything they feel like. This lady is now fair game to be accused of everything they can think of. They know nobody connected with the Royal Household will comment on speculation so they have a free hand.
On the subject of how the media interpret events - I read a headline about the England v Pakistan Test match this morning which read along the lines of "England must regroup after losing both openers in quick succession". I think most cricket fans would assume from the headline that both had been out with few runs on the board. The reality is that the openers did go in quick succession but with 233 and then 235 runs on the board.
Just a single example of how the media doesn't necessarily lie but deliberately mislead at best.
Well.... I'm with LG.... It's been very enlightening reading! Have to concur with my mother....@Dovefromabove Generally wise to do.... It's HOW you say it!!! I've seen racists emotionally effect my family members without even realising they have offended....a little empathy and education would go a long way in society not just the royal family....
I can trace my family back to Agincourt …. I have it all written out as researched by other family members. I know who they were, where they lived, what they did and how they contributed to society.
My son in law can go back about three or four generations at the most … after that there are no records … his family only have their suspicions about the area their family is from because there are no records, and their owners gave them new names/identities. They don’t know who their family were, where they come from, what sort of people they were or what they did.
At a ‘County Society’ wedding he was helping me push my parents in their wheelchairs … the photographer told him he wasn’t wanted in the photographs because they thought he was a paid carer. Later on a guest asked him to fetch them more champagne because they thought he was one of the catering staff.
Why? Because he was the only black guest … He is cousin by marriage to the bride.
I have been present and witnessed vile abuse of my tall, handsome, intelligent and kind son in law. It is horrible and breaks my heart that he and his lovely family have to live their entire lives accepting this as normal. If they complain they meet with the sort of criticism of over-sensitivity that’s now being heaped on Ms Fulani from some quarters.
Don’t tell me that the teasing and occasional bullying I’ve received for being more ‘sturdily built’ than most, and an occasional difficulty in buying clothes in the style I wanted, in any way equates to the racism he’s lived with all his life!
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Thank you @Dovefromabove.... It turns out the Guinness family used to own his ancestors.....I wonder how many folks on here know who used to OWN their family!
I'm not sure how tracing exactly where you're from is relevant. We all came from somewhere - we're all human and have an ancestry whether we know the full detail of it or not.
I have never said that people haven't suffered because of racism and I fully appreciate that racism comes in many guises, but I still do not think that a question of someone's origin is, by default, racist.
I know you can't do what ifs - but if the person had been Inuit,Aborigine,Thai,Chinese or ...would the LiW's question still have been racist? If the person had an accent and had spoken first ,so the LiW had had an aural indication of 'difference', would the question have been racist?
How do you know the conversation wouldn't have become:
'Where do you come from?'
'My origins are blah, but my family came here from blah-blah'
'That's interesting - my son in law comes from blah-blah...what part were your family from?'
Why is it assumed that there was some nasty ulterior motive to the question?
The transcript shows it was a badgering style of integration...... Not sure how many times we have to state that IT'S HOW YOU SAY IT!!! Obviously, that's my opinion... Just some opinions are built from actual experience!
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