Only just seen this thread. What a preposterous suggestion than anywhere is more racist than the racist entity that is america, the most racist nation in human history.
Bit of background, I’m Irish, and my parents marched in the 1960s civil rights marches here in Northern Ireland due to discrimination against catholics (housing, jobs etc.), and these marches were directly inspired by the civil rights marches instigated by the oppressed black people in america. Placards here with the wording “negroes of Northern Ireland” were common. There are murals here to Malcolm X, Martin Luther Kimg Jr and other freedom fighters who suffered under the boot of the colonial white settler state that is america.
The mention of the UK and race I assume was brought up in relation to Markle. First off, she is from a race based nation, everything there is about race. A black person there gets elected Mayor is a headline news story as it’s seen as an accomplishment (it should be the bloody norm, not seen as something to celebrate). She brought this emphasis on race over to the UK (during her brief stay) when it doesn’t apply. She has since instilled in Harry his “unconscious bias” (a concept he’d never thought of before, of course he didn’t as he isn’t from a race based society). Few of the american race laws (of which it was the global leader) that apply to her:
1.she’s not white, therefore is not a true american in accordance with the Naturalization Act of 1790 that restricted citizenship to whites only. This racist law lasted until the 1870s. Other non whites (such as Indians) couldn’t be citizens until the 1960s.
2.she’s not white, therefore could not have relations/marry a white person in accordance with the Anti-miscegenation laws that lasted until 1967 (only Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany also enacted a no race mixing law).
3.she is, what the tyrant thomas jefferson would call, a mulatto, that’s mixed race, and had she absconded from her slavemaster as his slaves did, via the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, her image would have appeared in newspaper adverts akin to those taken out by jefferson to recover his escaped slaves, one of whom was a mulatto named Sandy.
4.she’s not white, thus would have been banned from being educated (america is the only nation on Earth to have had an Anti-literacy law, a law enacted to prevent blacks from being educated for fear of them becoming awakened and ultimately rebelling)
5.she’s not white, thus would have been prevented from living in the house she’s now living in in Los Angeles due to racial covenants that first appeared in the 1920s in the northern and western states after black people began leaving the south, covenants that prohibited houses being sold to non Caucasians.
Markle, historically in america, a non citizen, prohibited from marrying a white person, could be captured if she escaped from her master with her fugitive image appearing in newspapers, banned from being educated, and couldn’t live in the house she is now in. She couldn’t vote either (but that wasn’t just an american restriction as it was the case almost everywhere until the early 20th century, what was an american restriction was white only voting, this is contrast to Britain, for example Ignatius Sancho, a black British man in the 1770s who owned his own home, his own business (grocery store) and who could vote (which he did in the 1774 and 1780 British general elections), it would be another century before a black man could do the same in america, and even then it was restricted until the 1960s.
I could go on and on, but this article gives a general overview:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States
This in the opening section:
.......In the view of the United Nations and the U.S. Human Rights Network, "discrimination in the United States permeates all aspects of life and extends to all communities of color.”
And further down the article. As recent as 2017.....
.....the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination issued a rare warning to the US and its leadership to "unequivocally and unconditionally" condemn racist speech and crime, following violence in Charlottesville during a rally organized by white nationalists, white supremacists, Klansmen, neo-Nazis and various right-wing militias in August.
Only two years ago thousands of whites, including the Proud Boys, stormed the US Capitol (a building also built by slaves (like most of Washington) in a city named after an enslaver of over 600 black people) as they didn’t like the result of the election.