Racism in the Royal Family

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Susan Hussey has resigned. Philip was coming out with similar comments in public all his life, yet there was no move to get rid of him. AIBU to think this is more royal hypocrisy?

Yes how can she possibly have made her comments unracist?

I'm not a racist

Actually you don't get to be the arbiter of that, @Snoozer11 . Any more than someone who harasses women gets to decide whether they are a misogynist.

Except saying racist things isn’t cancelled out by saying ‘I’m not a racist’. Hence why ‘I’m not racist but…’ is the oldest nonsense in the book.

You ARE a racist, and you should be ashamed.

If people can't tell what's offensive/racist about that conversation, that's worrying

Am I?!

And I completely agree the "where are you from" question can be racist and offensive.

But here I think Fulani was insolent. This is based on comments she has made previously, the public flogging of an elderly woman she initiated, and the questionable timing.

She could have said she was born in X, now lives in Y but has Z heritage. Why would you agree to attend a function to just show hostility when someone tries to make small talk?

Have you read what she said? I'd say that was wrong.

I'm not a racist and I have no reason to be ashamed.

Ngozi Fulani wanted to talk about her charity, Sistah Space. That was what the event was for - to centre the issue of violence against women. Susan Hussey blocked not one, but two attempts of Ngozi's to talk about Sistah Space and then refused to accept Ngozi's repeated answers that she was British. How anyone can think that is reasonable conduct is beyond me.

@Hills2022 appears to have lost the plot, @YumSushi . Although that probably happened right at the beginning of this thread when she told us that Hussey hadn't said anything wrong.

What's wrong with Hackney?!

I fail to see how anyone can read this conversation,´, believes it happened this way, and still tried to justify her comments id not racist.

I read the story and thought at first, ´it’s not great but it happens’. This exchange is something else.

If the person making this comment had been 43yo, then I would agree that it was horrendously racist and unacceptable. But she is 83yo, so I don't think she can be condemned in the same way as a 43yo for making these comments. Unless she is a bully (which we have no idea of) it's likely she was trying to make conversation in a clumsy way and has taken a serious bashing and loss of role for it. She might actually want to go and die because of the national humiliation, if it is the case that she was trying to be friendly. On the other hand, she could be a bully who's finally been called out.

She was born before WW2 even started. She is from a completely different era to 99% of us.

@notwavingbutdrowning1 Thanks was very confused

Makes me bloody laugh. Where are you from? Africa. No, where are you from? Africa.....

If you are a human being and currently alive, then you are from AFRICA. To be fair, your forebears might have slept around a lot. So there's maybe a bit of Neanderthal or even more rarely, a bit of Denisovan. You know? Mixed race?

So many people on here rushing to defend a racist because they think being "white" or "old" or even "possibly half deaf" is an excuse.

Why should she accept being interrogated about her heritage by someone who is absolutely refusing to accept she is British though? Fair enough if the conversation moves that way naturally (for eg talking about her work with women from African heritage and then inviting questions about her own heritage) but if someone (as was the case) was demanding that information right from the off, someone who is wilfully refusing to accept that she’s from hackney (even though she is) doesn’t deserve that information. Thats not how conversation works.

also Hackney is nice. So fuck off.

This is a great summation

I'd vote for that.

Ah, there's the rub. We have an antediluvian system that fails to make our Head of State and her bloated family, friends and hangers-on in any way accountable.

QEII two months dead and already the shiny veneer is starting to come off.

It is the charity, Sistah Space that is based in Hackney. No idea what is supposed to be 'wrong' with Hackney.

If this Hussey woman can’t carry out public duties to any sort of decent standard then regardless of age she should have been fired. It being racism is just crazy to me, how can you defend the exchange? It’s not clumsy, it’s offensive. She has no actual interest in the Sistah Space lady, or her heritage. The royals represent US all - they are our public servants, as are the Royal servants. Totally unacceptable.