StarSand-I have ltlle time for any of the protaganists in the Harry/Meghan/Royal Family hoo ha, but I have to call your anti American superiority complex OUT.
Anything dirty trick that the U.S knows and learned, they learned and know it from Momma Britain, okay?
Fact of the matter is this; if one is Black and they want to make it in life, the U.S is still the place to go, even more than Black nations. You may be very well satisfied that the majority of black people in the U.K are living cheek by jowl, can't buy a piece of land, and meant to be grateful because this keeps the "natives" fro being so nervous as to lynch us, thus everything, according to people like you, is gravy.
But many Black people would rather eat their own shit than to come and live in the U.K. There is a constant number of Born British Black and naturalised British Black who have been leaving this country since the 1980s; shit my my paternal grandparents came in 1962 and were back in Jamaica, house built, land bought by 1974. My aunt took her free NHS nurse training as as gift she cheekily called "reparations" and went to live in the U.S since just before I was born in 1970. On a nurse's wage, she was able to rent a house for decades in New York City and buy a house in Florida and land in Jamaica for her daughter and grandaughter.
My one daughter, recently turned thirty has been working freelance all o I have to thank my U.S family connections for saving my one child from the one step forward, six steps backwards life that too often the expectation for Black people over here, no matter how qualified.
fact is, the U.S is no stranger to Black people being in EVERY work paradigm that exists, plus the "hating" culture is far less put there than over here, so people do not mind giving information to better oneself as much as over here.
My family used to be very large over here and gradually has emigrated to the U.S, South America, and back to Jamaica with a couple gone to China and Japan. I'll be gone in a couple of years after sacrificing my twenties to bringing up my daughter as a single parent and saving , saving , saving ( 1990s) and buying my then council flat and then selling that. My fear of dying in this country is the impetus. This country, especially London, HATES old people, so why my Black arse would stay here, up in age, I don't know. All my relatives ask "where are the elders?" when they come here. Yes, even in the super capitalist U.S, visibly old people are, well, visible.
There are over 30 million Black people in the U.S and I do not see the culture of wanting to escape from there as a Black person even a twentieth as much as I do from over here. Fact is, in any strata, U.S people are just not as obssessed with the U.K yay or nay as the proudly virulent anti U.S people that can be found anywhere over here in any group. But "hating" whils being polite is U,K, especially English culture 101 and directness is aggression. Many a time, all my life a certaintye of person has balked at my directness. The fake nice to be nosy trait is just not a characteristic that I have acquired. Similarly, "no" has always been a full sentence for me; in work and outside it.
I feel sorry for any Black person in this country who does not have any heritage country connections or is familiar with people who do. My family chose not to get too comfortable over here as they foresaw that the place that apathy would lead to Black people over assimilating into white underclass culture, gradually rendering their "otherness" a technicality and a burden and something that cannot be celebrated outwith being carpetbagged by white people in order to give it "validity".
There is so much that is shitty about the U.K with its insular superiority.
if the U.K is so good, how come Black people cannot have a their own middle class with the subliminal message that Black people have to have an interracial relationship in order to mobilise? How come certain councils where many Black people live make/made sure that Black people cannot/could not buy buildings that they could run businesses from, but other non whites could, who do not live in those areas and whose businesses Black people have to patronise?
There is a LOT of anti Blackness in this country and I conly concern myself with the anti Blackness that hinders my and others progress. I could give a fuck who marries who. A fi dem business and personal to them, not something that will bring Black people forward.
Honey without money don't make no sense, no matter how much white people in the U.K have a superiority complex about racism over there, compared to the suffocating, apathy rendering anti Blackness over here.
thank God my elders recognised it from the 1960s and their descendants have been trained to move accordingly whilst managing "to keep it Black" ( another dynamic that the superiority complex havers both Black and white don't really check for, I have noticed).