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Just finished ✅ watching an insightful and candid segment by @kelechnekoff and @SholaMos1, on @cnn USA, speaking from the collective experiences and angst of many #BlackBritish citizens of 🇬🇧 wrt the #HarryandMeghanonOprah interview fallout & the tepid responses from the RF /1

Their analyses is on the money 💰And I believe, they speak for a large segment of the 3.2% of Black ppl (and perhaps 🤔 some amongst the 13% of BAME populations) in 🇬🇧. What struck one ☝🏼most, from this interview was the issue of some in all the political parties /2

(especially @Conservatives) to use a sprinkling of ‘token’ BAME representations (gatekeepers) in governance to shut down the debates on the injustices, inequities and downright structural policy racism (however benignly crafted) within all levels of HM Govt. /3

The other issue has to do with colourism within 🇬🇧 society... Even amongst ethnic minority (BAME)communities, colourism is deep-seated in the psyche... Once heard someone tell a fair-skinned friend, with mild manners & a gentle disposition, /4

that she may be the acceptable face of blackness in some interview scenarios if they were both to apply for a job in some corporates.That, if she, a dark-skinned Black-British were to be considered with a fair-skinned, probably equally qualified candidate for the same job,/5

the fair-skinned one might probably get the job. This is how deep-seated the issue of ‘colourism’ is in the UK psyche(not usually acknowledged publicly).The point being: that if #MeghanMarkle & her unborn child’s skin-tone is so unacceptable (allegedly)to certain members of the/6

British RF👑 ...Then God help those who are of a darker hue... This is one lesson making the rounds, in discussions, among so many black-British nationals in the UK in the light of this @Oprah interview. Postscript: Kudos to @cnn USA for allowing @kelechnekoff & @SholaMos1 /7

to speak up on behalf of most Black britons, who are daily gaslit, whenever we try to point out the seemingly obvious to our fellow brits.Some,who may just be unaware, but well meaning.The tabloid culture attitudes to the #BlackBritish experience & is a story for another day /END

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NB: A collection of articles on what I call ‘Submarine Racism in British Society’: link.medium.com/tRJ0oYNpzeb

Harry & Meghan’s Exit — Meghzit. Performative Ignorance of the British Press link.medium.com/pqGyONUpzeb