Thread by @LeslieStreeter

Just started #HarryandMeghanNetflix and am reminded that while they were falling in love, unhinged British women were posting conspiracy theories about why they had never met and Meghan was showing up to places Harry would be the stalk him. Hard to surmount that kind of crazy.

If I ever call you and tell you I’m going to be staying in a tent for ten days with a new boyfriend I am not in love. I have been kidnapped. Alert the authorities. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Indeed their secrecy made it possible for that unhinged narrative to form, that it wasn’t real. Because some people needed for it not to be true. And they hated Meghan for existing and damaging their delusions that he could one day pick them. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

It’s insane that these two beautiful people could exist in the world and not have an inkling of the scrutiny they’d face. I mean people with an inth of their fame get harassed. I so wish they’d have been prepared but the hate they got isn’t their fault. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Doria is so beautiful. Can’t imagine having to be silent as people wish for my child’s banishment from the earth. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

How you would watch this and believe that anyone would sign up for this abuse and not be completely in love is baffling. A mere gold digger would have bailed. There are other rich dudes she could have dated. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

True story that I was asked if I were my son’s nanny when out with my White husband and the baby and I are both brown skinned. Oddness. #HarryandMeganNetflix

This part about Doria regretting not having that race talk with Meghan who had been able to exist without acknowledging race is rough. I’m not biracial so my Blackness was never in question so that talk came early. And I’m grateful. #HarryandMeganNetflix

Here is the thing. I was brought up to believe that being Black was a good thing. The bad thing is that it was a problem for others. And I had to anticipate it but never apologize for it. If you have a problem with my Blackness that’s on you. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

There is no quicker way to prove that race is an issue than showing up in a role people don’t expect to see your Black face in. Ask me how I know. #harryandmeghannetflix

That sad child of divorce poem! #harryandmeghannetflix

It’s so terrible watching the evolution of Meghan’s smile getting smaller and tighter as time went on. #HarryandMeganNetflix

Again nobody said to her “these aren’t huggers?” #MeghanandHarryNetflix

This curtesy scene was clearly poking fun at herself and her lack of knowledge and not crapping on generations of British tradition. Anyone who says otherwise just wants to be mad. #staymad #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Can I be honest? I don’t know one Black person who doesn’t have very light skinned cousins who didn’t look at that woman and know she was biracial. Casting Bunk as her dad was an immediate clue. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

I was excited about their marriage as an American, a Black person and a fan of “Suits.” I guess I and others felt some small stake in a world that didn’t include us and that was fun. But we learned how many people didn’t want us included. Ever. #HarryandMeganNetflix

The wedding shattered a lot of fantasies and confirmed that a biracial person could achieve a thing they didn’t. Kind of like being president. And that meant she had to be destroyed. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

They hated her so much that they were willing to destroy their formerly favorite Royal because he chose her. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

In the very first episode Meghan says “Everyone we’ve never met is yelling our story. Why shouldn’t we?” Exactly. But some would rather that reporter who blocked me tell their story because they want to believe him. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

What an important point that UK people could pretend they were colorblind because the slavery was all in the Caribbean where they could ignore it. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Walkabouts always seemed so crazy vulnerable to me. Then again I’m from Baltimore. I am always ducking. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

I love that Meghan brought her makeup artist along on the come up. It’s loyal and also it’s hard to find a good makeup artist. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Harry in how the British tabloids felt they owned the royals and their trauma is chilling. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

@afuahirsch said the most interesting thing that Harry and William were born into a contractual relationship with the media that they had no say in. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

And you know so many Black people were relieved that it wasn’t the Black side of her family acting afool. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

Someone who was married into my family-in-law before my husband was born tried to start stuff about me on an in-law’s Facebook page because it gave them a feeling of being part of something exciting. I’m not even famous. I get the Samantha Markle thing. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Nobody who was being honest that that racist-ass broach was a mistake. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Oh the N*zi uniform. Eternal yikes. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Anyone who ever covered teen idols and know how they were made to hide their relationships to maintain the fantasy that they were available understands the hate Meghan got. That’s why they believe her pregnancy was fake. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

I’ve just discovered more British media people I’ve never heard of who have blocked me. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

People who love you don’t sell stories about you.

I feel so sad she couldn’t have her niece at her wedding but that all makes sense now. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

Hey isn’t that Serena Williams who the tabloids say isn’t Meghan’s friend? Hmm. #MeghanandHarryNetflix

Once you understand how much England plundered the wealth of the countries they colonized you will never look at a photo of those Crown Jewels the same. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

I didn’t know about the death of Mr. Lawrence but it makes sense that a country that wants to deny its racist past got mad that any royals acknowledged it. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

A loving father doesn’t sell stories to the tabloids about you. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

And again why are you mad about #MeghanandHarryNetflix but not that her tacky family sold their stories to the tabloids?

“And now she doesn’t have a father.” That man sold damaging stories to the tabloid. Harry is right. She owes him nothing. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

So that’s it for the current episodes. So far these seem like lovely people who are in love and had no clue what was about to happen to them. Haters NEED this to be fake, for her to be this seductress who made him leave his family. Wow. #HarryandMeghanNetflix

One more #MeghanandHarryNetflix thought: I am so confused by the people who think Meghan can’t have suffered racism because she didn’t identify as Black or biracial. First of all, you can’t define someone’s identity based on how they look.

Also are you really saying that her personal indemnification means that the Compton crack or the depiction of her kid as a monkey hurts any less?

Here's my silly Duchess Lessons story for @pbpost before we knew how bad things were going to get. facebook.com/watch/?v=10156…

This did numbers, as the kids say, so I wanted to say hi and that I am a columnist for @BaltimoreBanner and write some nifty things there. thebaltimorebanner.com/author/leslie-…