The Recent York Times hates Britain.
Barely a month goes by without launching a latest attack on how terrible my country is.
Particularly, he hates our monarchy, which he repeatedly portrays as a vile, racist institution.
Inside just three hours of the late great Queen Elizabeth II’s death in September, she published an awful column by Harvard professor Maya Jasanoff urging readers to not “romanticize her era” since it “helped obscure the bloody history of decolonization, whose proportions and legacy are usually not has yet to be adequately recognised” and accusing Her Majesty of being “a white face on all of the coins, notes and stamps circulating in a rapidly diversifying country”.
Jasanoff suggested the Queen can have known about “crimes committed in her name”, said the IRA’s murder of her beloved cousin Lord Louis Mountbatten was “karmic” and attacked her for her “personal relationship with Winston Churchill”, a person who is usually credited as the best Briton in history, but was derisively dismissed as a retrograde imperialist.
Just a few days later, the Times unleashed one other tirade from novelist Hari Kunzru, who sneered at being a “white queen” who had “spent her whole life smiling and waving to cheering natives world wide, form of the living spirit of a system of predatory and bloodthirsty extraction.”
This was all before she was buried.
So it was no surprise that I woke up on Monday to read within the Times one other terrible critique of the royal family and the institution they represent, written by the self-proclaimed “bad feminist” creator Roxane Gay.
In it, he demands the dismantling of the monarchy for failing to “shield” Meghan Markle from racism and writes a shocking statement: “When Prince Harry met and married American actress Meghan Markle, we saw in real time how high the value the crown was willing to pay extract from an outsider, as much as and including his life.
Suggesting that the royal family was ready for Meghan’s death is a disgusting lie.
But then, what else could we expect from a author who claims to imagine all the pieces the Sussexes say, despite the mounting swarm of evidence that a lot of their inflammatory claims are lies?
Gay’s overly flattering and one-sided article amusingly describes Meghan as “the proper princess… flawless… surprisingly diplomatic”, while deriding the monarchy as aging, delusional and “deeply problematic”.
He despises: “It’s terrifying to know that racism is so powerful that the royal family would wreck what, for now, is their only probability to succeed in the hearts and minds of the individuals who make their lives possible. That they had a present: in Meghan Markle, they’d a girl who’s intelligent, composed and largely able to living in the general public eye, playing the a part of a princess and giving her all within the service of something greater than herself.”
I snorted in disbelief as I read this nonsense.
Is that this the identical Meghan Markle who, along along with her husband, has devoted the last two years of her life to tarnishing the image of the royal family, the monarchy and Britain through their infinite, cruel, hypocritical and largely unfounded public mudslinging?
What form of “gift” repeatedly stigmatizes one’s circle of relatives as a bunch of heartless racists on global television without presenting a shred of proof?
I’m sick of constructing the narrative – cynically stoked by the Recent York Times and the Sussexes snipers – that Britain is a racist country.
The truth is, we’re one of the vital multicultural and racially tolerant nations in Europe, which is reflected within the individuals who run this country.
Our first British prime minister in Asia, Rishi Sunak, is a Hindu son of Indian immigrants.
Our Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, is the black son of an immigrant nurse from Sierra Leone.
Our Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, is the daughter of two Indian immigrants who got here to the UK within the Nineteen Sixties.
The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is the son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver and the primary Muslim to carry the office.
Yesterday, 18-year-old cricket sensation Rehan Ahmed helped England to an exciting win over Pakistan, where his taxi driver father was born before coming to England.
And England’s squad for the FIFA World Cup consisted of seven black players.
This tells the true story of my country, a spot that’s becoming more racially tolerant 12 months after 12 months.
A 2020 Ipsos Mori poll found that 89% of Britons could be comfortable if their child married someone outside their racial group, up from 75% in 2009, and 93% disagreed with the concept, that you may have to be white to be “truly British”. from 82% in 2006.
For this reason Meghan “The Gift” Markle’s constant attempts to brand Britain and our monarchy as racist are so misguided and so damaging.
The truth is, she was welcomed with open arms to the royal family and by the British people, who were delighted to see the biracial royal wedding encouraged by the media, who, despite all of the “merciless” allegations, were equally delighted with the event.
As I wrote concerning the televised marriage: “It’s difficult to overestimate the importance of tonight’s ceremony, broadcast live worldwide, to black people in every single place. Borrowing the words of Dr. [Martin Luther] King, it was the day when little black girls could watch television and sincerely share the long-standing dream of little white girls to at some point marry a prince.
That was the mood of the people.
And it wasn’t until Meghan and Harry began behaving in a hypocritical way, consistently preaching things just like the need to scale back our carbon footprint, and then doing the precise opposite, using Elton John and George Clooney’s private jets as taxis, that the media grew more critical.
Now they sit of their California mansion raking in a whole lot of thousands and thousands of dollars, destroying their families and the monarchy that gave them the royal titles they exploit so mercilessly.
It’s shamelessly duplicitous.
Other than anything, why would they WANT to maintain titles given by a supposedly racist institution?
He’s also downright cruel.
I do know many of the royal family well and Prince William was right when he said they’re “definitely not a racist family”.
That is evidenced by the numerous years of wonderful work that senior members of the Royal Family have done within the Commonwealth and countless charities dedicated to fighting racial injustice and inequality.
Britain and the royal family deserve higher than reputation-damaging nonsense from a pair of narcissistic renegade royals and a newspaper who think it’s okay to attack a 96-year-old woman hours after her death.