🧵 When my daughter was at school, I used to get notes sent home about celebrities & royals that would be soon visiting and I would have to give my signed consent to photos being taken of her & published wherever they want to publish them! Whilst I agree that some “visitors”…
2/12 bring a lot of kudos & excitement to school visits, I don’t believe that “traditional Royalty” do! Princess Diana & Meghan are the exceptions for obvious reasons - if you choose not to see why then that’s on you to educate yourself, not for me to explain why! There was …
3/12 absolutely no way, I was ever going allow my child to be used as the poster child for their white supremacy! At that young age, children - of course - do not understand they are being used but they do feel whether the person is sincere or not! Children & animals know!
4/12 Every time that note came home and I would sign No, my daughter would cry and say it’s not fair, all the other Mummy’s just say yes why can’t I … yada yada yada! But also every time… after the visit she would come home and say “I’m glad I didn’t have to have my photo …
5/12 taken with X because they weren’t very nice to us”! This is a message to Black Parents in the U.K. … stop consenting to letting your kids being used to prop up an archaic, racist & misogynist institution - those photos will be used when your child is grown to manipulate…
6/12 even younger minds and also yourself, as a parent, into believing that X did something great that day! They did not! It is just their modern version of colonialism - they came, they saw & they “conquered”! It’s time to stop letting them “conquer” your children! They are
7/12 not inspiring, empowering or even educating your children, they visit to take! They visit for the PR and their disdain is rarely left at the door! The latest photos doing the rounds of Camilla are plain as day - she’s there to get the photos for the photo bank & that’s it! 
8/12 Please let’s stop subjecting our babies to this latest PR “push” for them to be photographed with as many children of colour as possible - your children! C’mon we don’t need that kind of validation anymore and neither do our children! Black parents of my generation and …
9/12 Younger are teaching our kids about their history and about the importance of authenticity regardless of the colour of the spaces they’re in, empowering them about equality - let’s not start them off as fodder for a clearly racist institution’s agenda! I put up…
10/12 with the crying & wailing when my daughter was little, so that now she is a young adult she can stand up for herself, be proud of who she is and doesn’t appear to have any inferiority complex either. She’s young but she can think for herself & I see her self belief …
11/12 growing daily! I hear the conversations with her friends when she gently challenges them or even educates them on why she has the perspectives she has and I know that sense of self started before she could think for herself - it started when it was my responsibility!
12/12 I’m glad I grew up in a family that nurtured self belief in me too & those family stories I grew up with about plantation owners in the Caribbean and my Grandparents weren’t lost on me. Let Camilla & Kate & the rest of them take their disdain elsewhere, we’re above that!
Of course Prince Harry was also the exception in that #RacistRoyalFamily too!
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