The arrival of #MeghanMarkle - a woman directly descended from slavery - offers an opportunity to openly discuss bigger issues of race, class & gender. Her arrival opens a window on deep-seated racial & class prejudices that run deep within society #Oprah newsweek.com/dont-let-gover…
1/. Ten years ago, when William got engaged to Kate - a Commoner - I wrote this piece about how wall-to-wall fawning media coverage of this so-called ‘Cinderella Story’ exposed the fact that Britain remained a deeply class-ridden & deeply sexist society. newstatesman.com/blogs/the-stag…
2/ Like Cinderella, this modern romance was also rife with negative gender stereotyping & ugly class prejudice
Britons it seem, aspire to upward mobility but despise themselves & are despised for it
@AJEnglish saw the article & signed me up as their Royal Wedding correspondent
3/. The arrival of #MeghanMarkle exposed further deep-seated class & racial prejudices that run deep within our society
So deep that it’s far easier - & more fun - to kick against a scapegoat rather than acknowledge the prejudices & start unpacking them. google.co.uk/amp/s/www.news…
“I was at a hospital the other night where I think a few there were #coronavirus patients & I shook hands with everybody, you’ll be pleased to know, & I continue to shake hands."
2/. “And I continue to shake hands and, I think it is very important that we...people can make up their own minds”