Member of Household resigns

[myrtleWilson]

Awful story just broken on twitter about horrendous racist questioning from Lady Hussey to Ngozi Fulani from Sister Space at yesterdays VAWG event.

Lady Hussey has resigned.

[Edited by MNHQ to correct typo at OP's request]

And in other news Christine McVie has sadly died .

Don't be so obtuse! Her outfit reflected her cultural heritage - or are we not allowed to say that either?

Do none of you perfect people ever come out with stupid remarks that you'd rather you hadn't?

I'm not even going to read this shite any more. Some people are just rabid.

So are we satisfied with how the royals have dealt with the situation?

I’m happy with William’s statement, particularly the “racism has no place in our society” comment.

I thought Buckingham Palace’s response was was adequate until it transpired they haven’t directly reached out to Ngozi to discuss and apologise.

@Pallisers agreed! What on earth that poster was thinking...

I'm appalled at the racist attitudes on display from some posters, it's just so insidious.

And don't get me started on white people explaining how THEY don't mind being asked where they're from.

Cos that's the same as a black or brown person being othered overtly by an over privileged Lady in bloody Buckingham palace face palms.

I'm taking a break from this thread, the whole thing is so dispiriting.

AngelicaElizaAndPeggy · Today 14:26
' Very much not a racist family '
They only employ them.

I don't think she is/was actually employed. Just an ancient aristocratic hanger-on.
Not that age is an excuse. I'm not much younger, and would never behave like that.

Sistah Spaces's website is happy to say that they support people from African and Caribbean heritage.
More code. 🙄

Don't be dispirited @Tonkerbea . We've come so far. The fact that these conversations are now highlighted and being questioned is a massive thing. The apologists are a minority, and their voices are becoming smaller and weaker. Of course the overtly and covertly racists will push back against this, they are feelign threatened. We must focus on the majority voices, and that this kind of behaviour has now finally been identified as unacceptable.

Reported.

Let's see what my response is.

No @hattie43 , it's proved that mulitculturalism it doesn't work for you.
I feel saddened by how much you're missing out on, but that is your choice.

That poster is not worth it@Mookie81 . They are just baiting all the time on threads about race. That tells you who they are.

Try to ignore @hattie43 . I feel desperately sad for him/her, it must be awful carrying around so much resentment and horrible feeling, while being unable to appreciate the beautiful diversity of the world we live in.

Nigel Farage seems to have joined the thread.

There are a lot of decent people out there willing to fight against racism who are not poc. The racists cannot be allowed to drown out the voices of those speaking out against this cancer.

I'm not offended at all, but I 100% cannot see what skin colour has to do with anything that you wrote, apart from maybe you feel that POC are more likely to be offended? But of course you're not saying that are you?

hear hear @LadyKenya

@Mookie81 I reported it too.

I am pleased that Lady Susan has been told to resign resigned.

All the racist and obtuse posters on this thread will have to watch their racist tongues very carefully or else they will also be asked to leave their workplace, that's all great news. I hope Ngozi will be ok 💝

@LondonWolf my issue with your post (which I have not been clear in explaining, I apologise) is that you have taken one experience with one POC on mumsnet, and generalised it to all POC (because I am white I mustn't ask about their weekend as one POC once told me it was intrusive).

Please clarify if this isn't what you are saying.

Oh it's been deleted. Clear attempt to get this thread deleted. If it's absolutely necessary due to hate speech, @Mumsnet please just freeze it don't delete this thread it's important.

What is diverse about being a human being?

We are all agreed that racism is 100% wrong. Problem is that we don't seem to be able to agree what racism is. Were Lady H's comments deliberately meant to be racist and offensive, or was it just a massive gaffe? Was Ngozi setting out to be deliberately offended? Who knows? Probably a bit of both.