GURL, I got dragged by my family for saying that I (an unambiguous BW) do not see myself in Meghan, and I genuinely thought she was a full on white woman. The only discourse I have with it is, "She really THOUGHT she could pass as a white woman to the Royal family who are adamantly anti-black to the highest degree". And not trying to downplay her "struggle" but the racism she faced from them was racism I dealt w/back in elementary. You can tell she never faced the full brunt of racism that unambiguous black people face everyday, and she was living it up in the USA passing as white in Hollyweird. The only criticism is I wish you did an even longer video, this was wayyyy too short to dig into the nonsense ppl are saying/doing.
Okt but it’s kinda bullshit how you try to doen play someone else there racist experience thats like me comparing the racism towards asians now with the racism towards black people it is nit fair snd kind of stupid.
@@boredasf4856 I totally agree. That woman had her black momma on her arm all throughout her time in Britain. Like because her mom is light skin and Megan doesn’t look black she doesn’t have the same black issues? Like huh? That’s where people lose me. You can not down play someone else’s racial experience. You don’t know what she been through. Even her father been on some bs. He treats Megan differently than he does his other children. You can’t even begin to fathom what that does to someone mentally.
I thought she was white too. In Europe, especially southern Europe, there are many people who look similar to her in terms of colours and features. She would easily pass as a mediterranean type.
@@rachelp7204 Her overall racism experience (like with her dad) in her life is not something I can judge or speak on. I strictly talked about the racism she dealt with the royal family she admitted to on the Oprah interview. She gets no sympathy from me because she should have known what she was marrying into like every black person does
@@_Kim_Possible you can’t know the whole picture of what your Marrying into. I’m American and I don’t know much about the royals. I thought they were rich and could do basically anything they wanted to. I believe when Harry came to the states sometime around 2008 or 2010 he was wilding. I’m pretty sure she didn’t know the full extent. Like her being locked in for months because she was getting more exposure than other than the queen. How could she have known Britain’s tabloids where going to harass her? How was she supposed to know someone was going to question how dark skinned her child was going to be? Like come on now.
I completely get you. The fact that no one (not even their mother) was calling her black or biracial until she married a prince and found out her mom was light skinned because she looks white and presented herself as white is beyond crazy to me. I literally can remember the day after their engagement was announced, all the magazines and news articles were praising her because she was "black" marrying into a rich white family and I was like who are the people responsible for this? Before the engagement she NEVER labeled herself as a black woman so now that you've married into a royal family that doesn't like you because you're not all white (even though you look white) you want to run with it and start saying things such as "as a black eoman"? GET OUTTA HERE!!! People talking about she's setting standards for black women with mental health. Ma'am, last time I checked I have been in therapy for the past 7 years for mental health issues and know people who have been for the past decade. I just don't understand why people are holding her up on much a high pedestal for marrying into one of the most white supremacy based family's in history.
It's like prince Harry meet her mom and said "Oh wait, you have some black in you? Hell yeah, welcome to the family, BLACK queen, this will be great for our reputation!!!" lol
@@beetybop2998 😬 👋🏾 if you think this is truth well then we have two different opinions of the truth. Like i said ignorance on ignorance wrapped up in ignorance is going to get us absolutely no where.
Honestly, i thought I was the only one side eyeing this situation. It's really sad watching so many black women run to the rescue for someone who really doesn't look like them or isn't in the same tax bracket smh. Great move to Nigeria, abeg please link up with our ghel, Amara, the lesbian. You two are 🔥🔥🔥 🖤
i totally agree. most black brits like myself realise meghan is not one of us for the reasons that you mentioned (class/colourism/white-passing/heteronormativity etc.) however i think this scandal is an important step in bringing down the british establishment, along with the intensely racist media that protects them. it makes me feel a little less crazy, like the racism i've experienced isn't actually all in my head 😅
also how does one bring down the British establishment by defending someone who is literally married into that establishment? if anything it helps it maintain.
@@mayowasworld I guess it's maybe not so much defending her but it's more that people are clocking on that the institution is absolute bullshit and needs to be dismantled. The fact they are literally doing an interview because they have been cut off financially is very telling. The royals do ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL!!!
@@mayowasworld i'm embarrassed to say it, but i'd never heard about her story as it wasn't headline news. thank you for mentioning it though, i'll acquaint myself with her and her work properly. i guess with meghan i'm just amazed at the amount of negative attention that's now being directed towards the royals and the media, two institutions that were completely untouchable but are now being called out for their destructiveness and irrelevance; even by people from within that circle. so it's not a massive systemic win, but a win nonetheless. i totally understand your exasperation though.
I don't want the refined version. I want the raw version. The white wedding dress. Interesting that you mentioned that. I made a comment about that on a another RUclips channel (Say Yes To The Dress) a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it was Queen Victoria who started that trend. Luv the vid!
And you think Meghan will judge Harry by what his great grandmother did that's if she's even aware of the origin. Seriously black people need to get off their high horses stop acting like we don't have Royals. Stop acting like we treat whites as equals. The hyprpcracises is crazy get a grip and realise human nature comes with it darkside. Let's call out wickedness full stop. Don't fool yourself. How many Nigerian women marry for money and status despite the family track record do you think corrupt governmentofficials are short of women despite there track record NO!!!!!!. How many Nigerian women have a sponsor....stop the nonsense.
@@vivianmensah1882 what are even talking about ? That’s not the problem… she is saying that after the history of the royal family, she decided to enter that realm and now she want sympathy and support ? Like didn’t she know where she was going to?
I didn't even know her and when the interview stuff broke and started seeing pics I didn't know had any black in her. She's definitely lived all her life without feeling an ounce of discrimination and now she married a royal, is richer, and wants sympathy... Hard pass.
Sympathy you have no idea she put her life on the line to stand up to falsehood in the Monarchy ....do you know what happened to the last person that exposed the Royals....she's dead now.
they colonized Botswana we went to school during winter cause its in alignment with Britain, cause in their country is summer imagine...at school i was always pissed asking questions that no one wants to ask
So thrilled I know of your channel and work! As a Ghanaian-American who lived in Nigeria as a child, I'm horrified by the evil propaganda of "pretty", "exciting" or "engaging" as descriptors for shows like Bridgerton or The Crown. I'd be offended if HBO's "Confederate" show had been made. I feel sorry whenever folks are maltreated/othered. I'm glad she's left. NEVERTHELESS, it's patently clear that she didn't expect to be treated as dark-skinned Black folks are. If the virulent racism against someone with her phenotype doesn't tell us how much Europeans hate our presence, even when it's barely visible, nothing will. She's always said "woman of color" "biracial" or "mixed race" in reference to her identity and she's welcome to do that. It's intellectually dishonest, however, for her to claim that people in "the Commonwealth" see "representation" "someone who looks like them" when we/they see her. Let's use a term she'll now know- "that's a bloody lie!" Even when people's only sign of being mixed is light skin we're still quick to think of "half-caste" as a compliment- an insult borne of British twisting of Indian systems. The Biracial/partly Black peeps I rock with (within & outside my family) are the ones who embrace and affirm their Black heritage even as they affirm their other side. That family is overflowing with blood-massacres, rapes, genocide, theft, displacement, etc. I cannot look at any of their jewels without thinking of that. Enslavement in the diaspora as well as on the continent is/was continued by their child, the U.S. Sorry for the super lengthy post. I've been yearning for discourse like this.
Love Heals, I had the same thoughts as you while watching their Oprah interview. You can see in her face that she didn't think they would treat Her with any hint of racism. She thought their beliefs about blacks, biracials, kinda mixed, minorities etc would not apply to Her. Great point.
your big smile in the intro immediately made me smile as well, just the way your face was lit up and my day got better. i could feel the passion and i love your voice. can’t wait for the video updating and telling us about Lagos!
You’re 100% right Megan looked past literal centuries of oppression n made her own choice that it was okay to align with that n we supposed to SYMPATHIZE?? cuz her feelings hurt??? Absolutely not.
I am kind of approaching it like when a friend needs comfort after breaking up with an asshole boyfriend/girlfriend; I feel bad for her and support her, but everyone saw it coming and they should have known better. What else was gonna happen when entering a colonialist institution/a family that abandoned Harry’s Mom and fed her to the wolves/media.
I only feel bad for her when after having her child they took away her security AKA was leaving her for dead. I knew they did microaggressions and might say slick stuff here and there but to try to k!ll her and her innocent baby is just sad.
@@_Kim_Possible yeah, it’s like how Mayowa mentioned healthcare of black woman giving birth. The rate of black mother or child mortality is too damn low. That they protect the other white princes and princesses 💔
I couldn’t put my finger on why this shit is pissing me off. You’re right. Y’all don’t care about colorism until someone asks about the color of MM baby 🙄
I live in America and my entire Family is from Barbados 🇧🇧. Thank you for telling the truth. There where multiple videos done by black British people warning Megan not to join the royal family if she cared anything about black peoples. Especially if she was as “ woke “ as she and her racist husband claim to be now. She went and joined the most racist institution in the history of the world anyway. Now she wants to act surprised that a institution built on blood lines and heritage is racist. Of course it is ! She never wanted to be known as black . She use to get offended when people would ask her race. Now that it suits her , she is black ? The false equivalency she made about the LA race riots in her article she wrote was offensive. I do not feel sorry for her at all.
@kathrynowens3324 ancestors? I know my father and his school mates did not do whole ass March past for the queen for you to say ancestors. My dad is not yet 60 BTW. Nigeria just turned 60 like 3 years ago. It's not the queen's ancestors, it's her
Omg! Thank you. I felt so alone in my opinion. I feel bad for her as a woman, but I can’t give her the black sympathy card. Not when she built her career on passing for fully white.
I totally agree with you. We can ignore the fact that she willingly chose to marry into this evil family. Now she’s complaining, even if what they are doing is not right, she chose this life. Also now that she’s famous she became black all of a sudden ? Come on, ppl need to stop with this 1 drop rule racist bs. Anyway, thanks for sharing your opinion on this. I was tired of seeing black women caping for a biracial woman who made bad life choices especially because we know she wouldn’t have the same treatment if she was a dark skinned black woman.
The 1 drop rule got black people in a choke hold, it’s funny too bc it was created by yt men during the slave era 😂 but they hold on too that mindset so hard
I still don't understand why people are getting triggered by this video. What is hard to understand here? The message is simple: "You can't (as a black person or person mixed with black) marry a racist and then expect us to cry for you". No. I wonder how those people who are trying to twist this into some kind of "colourist-hate rant" against Meghan chose to ignore the part where she talked about a fellow dark-skin black woman in the US who married a racist white man 7:50 . She basically said the same thing about that woman that she says about Meghan. I personally can't tell if Mayowa hates Meghan or not 🤷🏿♀️ from this video, but I can see the truth in what she is saying. Why must black people (especially dark-skinned people) be forced to sympathise with every human being with a drop of black blood including those that share little to no experiences with them, do not want to be associated with black, and willingly marry into racist families. 🤷🏿♀️ You still want our tears? Na by force? I don't see anything out of place in Mayowa being unbothered. For me, when I see it, I'm like "Eeyah. So sad." Moving on. It's not hate, it's indifference. Please stop the gaslighting. You can cry for her, but please leave those that won't alone.
It’s because people don’t respect black people. When you don’t have respect, other people feel entitled to your feelings, energy, etc. They also put different rules on black people compared to others. This is why I don’t give a damn what other people go through; if it don’t affect me, then oh well; sucks for them.
Most multiracial people that are white passing and live in western society do not associate themselves with blackness. They don't do it, because they know why. She never did it, so it can't be expected of the black community to come to her aid now that the royal family has let her known that they see her as a common n-ord.
At first glance,I was sympathetic but then reality hit and it hit me that it's her fault.I am a Kenyan ,and the colonial experiences that Kenya and Nigeria face are very similar.I honestly don't understand how she could do marry into that family because there's google and if she thought she would change them she clearly doesn't understand the backseat is for her.
Several points. The cognitive dissonance of it all. She did go through it in that palace but we need to have some perspective. She CHOSE to get involved with that family. The rest of the world (BIPOC) did not.
Yeah...I was watching that interview and was exhausted AF. I feel for any person of color that's dealing with white supremacy. Glad that racist is called out, I don't like a woman having to deal with fear and anxiety while pregnant. BUT now that that's out of the way that whole interview was a fucking nod to all the pearl-clutching, "I don't see color" white people who like to pretend we're "post-racial". Wasn't for us. I was over it 5 min in. And Harry being all "it was awkward" when talking about race SMH
@@lanishajackson2677 She's a tad bit bonkers😂🤦🏾♀️ what was she going on about?! I personally am not a fan of Meghan and Harry or the royal family, but who am I to disregard their experiences. I feel like if the royal family was truly against Meghan, the wedding would not have have happened. Normally, it's a problem for divorce people to marry into royalty, they made so many exceptions for Meghan. She just does not understand royal protocol, which is understandable.
I just found you channel thru like 3 other natural hair channels I follow. Please. I beg of you. Keep this same energy. You’re refreshing and a brilliant ray of inspiration. Don’t change.
As a British person I fully agree with everything you are saying. I long ago gave up patriotism and being "proud" of our country, and its royal family. They are a cruel joke, and a waste of money. Why does our country need PR anyway?
Mayowa your eyeshadow is soooooo beautiful! I love the looks you do with your makeup and ways you style your hair. I am incredibly thankful for this video because you are high key saying everything I have been thinking but most people (only Black people because I wouldn’t even bother or care to hear about a non Black person’s opinion on this topic) shame me and try to shut me down for it. Also Harry admitted that she could have been an “asset” if they accepted her and would have been happy to help in anyway. She also said she wasn’t familiar with the family at all 🥴
I cringed at “asset”. I have to be happy that Meghan left then, because I know they would’ve tried to use her to make claims that they’re accepting of Black folks. I’m glad she can no longer be used as a prop.
@@alisharo58 they tried that with their “Blackity Black” wedding. But at the end of the day the family does not care about Black folks. So I don’t know why Harry thought it could have even been a possibility
Love your video! The royal family ain’t gonna let anyone marry into the family. Both of Meghan’s parents had received their coats of arms. Meghan tries to play dumb that she didn’t do any research about the royal family when she studied international relations in college, went to the Uk to travel, and dreamt of marrying into the royal family. She willing knew what she was getting herself into and when she experienced racism (which she most likely haven’t experienced much of) she wants to call on Oprah! Meghan can cry some where else! There’s bigger issues at stake and it’s only when biracial women complains that people have sympathy. Also, if the royal family accepted her she would have never complained, which speaks volumes as to her willing to marry into white supremacy ✌🏾💯
I find Meghan Markle to be incredibly disingenuous. She’s trying to garner support from the black community after refusing to even acknowledge her blackness and identify as black. Now suddenly she’s looking for black women to cry for her. She’s really weird honestly. And it makes me sick that the loudest people in these debates about what’s going on with her are dark skinned unambiguous black women. Light skinned women need to be the ones in these discussions since they love to talk about the discrimination they face whenever dark skinned black women talk about colorism 🙄 this is their time to shine now, lol. But as you can see they don’t actually care all that much, it’s only when dark skinned black women start talking about their experiences that they suddenly want to ME TOO the conversations. I just see through her and her bs. Like you said she knew exactly who she was marrying when she married him. I wish she would just keep it real and say “I’m white passing and style myself in ways that make it difficult to see my blackness, so because of my willingness to perform I thought they’d accept me as part of the family and it made me feel bad when they didn’t.” But obviously she isn’t going to say something like that. Light skinned biracial women lie a lot even to themselves I notice. They have issues and don’t even want to acknowledge the ways they try to chameleon through society and then when they get the wake up call that they aren’t white like they keep pretending to be , they start crying about the racism they swore didn’t exist and didn’t effect their lives.
I think to be honest Meghan has always identified as a biracial woman of color Which is what she is America loves identifying biracial people as black Some African countries call biracial people coloured people e.g... South Africa and Zimbabwe I don't think she has even gone after black support But because she is a biracial american woman and the one drop rule The narrative which is out of her control was going to be she is a black woman And as a result that was going to bring black people into the conversation She never asked for black people's support they came on their own
She is mixed race. She has spoken of her struggles as a mixed race woman way before she entered the Palace. She said she was never black enough for black roles nor was she white enough for white roles. What is your issue with that please explain?
Wow you are bitter ....just remember even when you are light skin there is always a shade lighter than you there fore someone will find a reason to hate you for being too dark...do you know that Greeks in Britain were not considered white? Stop getting hung up on bull crap. Light skin woman are put on a pedal stool over dark skin woman but how the hell can you deny someone's experience of racism? You don't get decided if someone has experienced racism do you actually understand that ?
I do agree that many mixed race people try to chameleon their way through life, and they will be quick to distance themselves from darker people when it no longer benefits them, but they will also be quick to cry racism when they realise the truth about how whites view them. Whites fiercely gate-keep when it comes to their culture and identity, and I just wish that we as blacks would do the same.
@Maverick Haven of course that's bad. And I at least am not denying the racism she's experienced. However, before all of this happened she was happily benefiting from her white privilege. I do feel sorry for Meghan because no one deserves to experience racism. But I'm mad that it took a nearly white woman to talk about colorism to talk about colorism and acknowledge it on a large scale. Why don't we give the same energy when a dark skinned woman is talking about colorism? When a dark skinned woman talks about the way she's been excluded, bullied, stereotyped, experienced much worse colorism? Because then all of a sudden people want to gaslight and say it's all in our heads, but as soon as a white passing woman says she experienced the tiniest bit of colorism, everyone cares. That's what I'm angry about.
@@thedestroyer9024 I completely agree.It's almost like the thing she was running away from came to bite her in the end. Also this days people just want to commercialize and fetishize to dark skinned women but not actually listen and pay attention to what they are saying.
@Maverick Haven she married into the ultimate colonizer family. Why would anyone in their right mind expect anything diffeent? That’s the whole point. Ol girl walked right into the sunken place
Exactly, that's what this is really about; Meghan has been very successful at White passing all of her life, and she thought with this ability, she would be accepted into the Royal family. Unfortunately, that's not how it all went down, they made it very clear to her that she's an outsider. Now, Meghan being a narcissist, experiencing this kind of rejection from the Monarchy was very mortifying for her.
I’m glad there’s so many people who feel the same way! I have no sympathy for her because she was fine claiming to be white and no one knew she was even mixed until she came back to the US and decided to capitalize off the BLM movement and the ever growing topic of racism that was very prevalent and it she used that to get clout and attention and our own people who can’t even pass for white were helping them out with housing and we’re giving her a voice, when in my opinion people who can’t pass for white should be given more of a voice. Not saying if you’re mixed your opinion doesn’t matter but us non ambiguous peoples voices are always getting drowned out by a lot of racially ambiguous people who are always trying the be the “voice” for us and our experience is not their experience and it is frustrating.
It threw me off when Meghan said she didn't know about the royal family and didn't do any research into them in the interview with Oprah I agree with you 100% Meghan kind of showed that she didn't care for the black side of her by marrying into this family. There are other ways to bring down the enemy other than shacking up with them. (And if you don't see them as an enemy I guess all that money they pay the press is working 🤦♀️) And this family isn't a disney villain To this day to STILL be collecting money from the 'common wealth' and not even BEGIN to APOLOGIZE I- That wouldnt** even make up for the atrocities they've commited or had commited in their name The British Monarchy can F*ck All The Way Off 🙄😒
She definitely knew about the royal family and if she didn’t that would mean she’s either uneducated or willfully ignorant. America only exists because of the British empire, so how can a whole American citizen sit there and say she didn’t know about the royal family? Nah, she knew and didn’t give a fck.
@@BlackStar312 and in any of those ways you don't care about the atrocities that family has committed my heart goes out to her for her legitament fear that people will kill her kids but that family has done way worse to children, mostly those of color - and they got the worst of it. A whole group of kids Went Missing while taking a walk with that B
I do not agree. Her personal choice to marry a person should not be based on the history of the whole family of the person she married to. That kind of Burdon should not be placed on a woman. Does not make any sense to me. She married up and did well, whatever. I do not care about that. What I do think that is that she should take the responsibility of the choices she made, if you marry into a prejudice and racist family don't be surprised and shocked if they are....... racist! It was to be expected anyway.
There is childhood video of Meghan when she was a teenager she went on a trip to England on a royal bus tour to visit the royal palace and to learn royal history. So yeah I don’t believe for a second she didn’t know. She knew, she just didn’t care, she wanted to marry a prince and be noticed by the world. You can see her childhood photos and videos of her in England on royal tours, you can see she has an obsession with the royal family. Just search on RUclips Meghan markle royal bus tour.
I really think Meghan thought the royal family had progressed enough to not think of her as "too black". But even baby Archie is going to be too black for them growing up, and he's the one I feel bad for because Meghan definitely made her choice and he's just being born into it.
I don't believe for one second that Meghan's skin color is the reason for her troubles with the royal family. Her troubles are all of her own makings. She wanted Hollywood privilege and freedom but she got Royal duties instead and that was not bougie glamorous enough for her.
I don't think that is true though. Not to be mean, but when looking at Meghan Markle, she appears to me as a ''social climber''. I think she thought she was going to live a Hollywood princess/ archduchess you name it ''fairy tale'' life in the UK. Now I can't blame her, I would have done the same, given the opportunity. And we will not pretend as if other women despite race would not have done the same. We see it everyday in real life. They are marrying man of means amongst all kinds of ranks with all kinds of professions, living their best life. So I am not judging Meghan Markle especially since she has a black mother.
First of all Megan don’t owe y’all nothing. I repeat 🗣 Megan don’t owe y’all nothing!!!!! But still Megan gave her testimony to the public and what’s she’s practically saying “ they treated me this way and I look like this”. READ BETWEEN THE LINES PEOPLE. Megan painted the picture for y’all now look at it as a whole. She practically said they are racist! But let’s not downplay someone’s else racist experience because they are biracial or light skin!!!!! Just stop! We have come too far for that ignorant bs. I am a brown skin woman but I would never say my experience is worse than the next because they aren’t dark enough. Alllllllll of these people have something to bring to the table. We all need to have eachothers back. If not, we will crumble under the weight of our own ignorance. Do y’all think Dr King and Malcom X was telling people they couldn’t March with them because they weren’t dark enough? They even had white people marching with them. Like I’m done I’m through. That woman has been through it. And black folks mad because she isn’t wrapped up in a dark enough package. Girrllll it’s the ignorance for me. She ain’t dark enough to rep black people yet she ain’t white enough. Haha y’all are proving the biracial point for them. Ughhh black folks make me sick. Like 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
What bothers me about Meghan is how she admitted to not doing any research on the royal family, and didn't know what she got herself into when she married Harry. This chick really thought that being a part of the royal family would be like a like Disney movie or something.
I would have thought the same, and I think it's easy for you to scrutinise someone when you were not the one who fell for someone. But I am sure if you were in her position there are many things you would have done wrong too.
@@freeeepalestine__ no black person would be in her situation unless they’re marrying into some sort of African royalty 😭😭 which is probably gatekept by them against Americans or foreigners.
And I feel everything you saying and agree BUT being a lighter complicated BLACK person I can say that yes the fuck we do still get discriminated against although I WILL NOT LIE that YES the DARKER YOU ARE AND THE KINKIER YOUR HAIR IS, THE HARDER IT IS FOR YOU IN LIFE. but at this point we all got some other shit in our dna because of the colonizers! I wish a mf would say I’m not Black! Really No One is Black we’re different shades of brown and some of us are this beautiful type purplish brownish color.
I'm glad you didn't stop making RUclips videos, you talk about stuff I don't normally hear about and I am happy to be able to hear about these issues from someone who faces them every day. Thank you ❤
Thank you for putting words to this, I have struggled to explain this issue to my white family and your video has given me a lot to consider when I engage in these conversations. Stay beautiful, stay loud, and thanks again 💕
Yall, as a black Brit i hate how im expected to choose a side. AuNtY MeG didnt care about how they literally slaughtered, raped, destroyed, and kidnapped my mom/dads tribe (also nigerians) and countless others. It wasnt even that long ago, twas under the previous queens rule. I get why she did it, power is nice but how can one be ok with associating with such a disgusting lineanage. I feel bad for her but at the same time im not that invested.
I’ve been saying this. Love you. She’s getting what she deserves. Shes less than 1/3 black. I could care less. Did we send you into that family? NO. Not my problem.
Maverick Haven she 1/3 her mom is black but not fully. Therefore she’s can’t be 50%. Learn to read/ count !!! I never said 1/4!!!!! 1/3 =33% ! Her mom is probably 70/75% black. BYE.
As a light skinned "pretty" black woman I can't keep track of how many opportunities I got that my darker skinned mother never would have/could have gotten. In the same token, not a single one of those opportunities were close to that of my white peers and the second they realized how "into my blackness" I am, they shut me out and threw away the key. Megan married into a racist white family riding off of pretty light skinned privilege but is realizing now that even if she doesn't identify as a black woman, the white world will always see her that way and will cast her aside the second she stops being who they want her to be. It's the same thing that happened with Stacey Dash. She loved being the "pretty light skinned" token during Trump's era and when every other white politician and reporter gets absolved for their anti-blackness, she's left out in the dark because those people never cared about her or saw her as an equal. I really hope these people can decolonize their minds but when you're handed the world for being pretty and light it takes a really great support system to remind you how fragile that position is and how beneficial it is to reject it until ALL black people get those opportunities.
@@nl8661 even though this comment is 2 months ago I agree with it the royal family is a mess when it to black people like me but I'm sorry but at the end of the day Megan is in the wrong to she haves the light skin and pretty face so she uses that and the fact that she's half black you black people are going to stand up for because that are people do if you did something wrong they going to stand up for you and the people in the comments are mostly black I think they got common sense
I understand what you're saying when you say "oh her mental health was suffering, but what about our mental health," but I think it's valid that two realities can exist in tandem and both can be true. I think you can be upset about how she was treated (despite how unsurprisingly predictable it was) and also be extremely angry at colorism and racism that exists all around us. Imo, the two aren't mutually exclusive; one doesn't erase or discredit the other. The real issue is, like you said, this story got all this public attention bc she's light skin and the royal family is so rich and famous, while dark-skinned black womxn's voices are consistently overlooked. There's never this much of a fuss over when shit happens to us. Where Meghan really missed the mark for me was when she said "I want people of color to see themselves in me" or whatever...I was kinda like ??? ummm 😩✋🏾 Also, I watched the interview but I didn't hear her say she didn't want to be called black, is that a separate reference? I know in the video you said she's not black because her phenotype is fair skin, but what do you think about bi-racial people who openly identify as black? Like is that valid, despite their skin not being dark? Or for instance, albino black people who identify as black. Even though they don't face colorism, in your opinion are they still allowed to be called black/is their blackness and experiences legitimate?
@cynamon skye But I've never been put down because of it. In my entire home country Tanzania I'm probably not seen as a Black person. That's nothing new.
I’m not surprised by the way Megan was treated..she’s not saying anything different that any other black women has suffered and continue to suffer with these kind of issues. She’s light skinned and probably thought she will get a pass but they don’t see that..at the end of the day no matter the skin color light or dark they will only see you one way. Reality hit her and they gave Harry the boot too just cause. His family probably thought, he’s just dating and it won’t go that far but the minute they heard baby coming..everyone is cut off. The child gets no title, no security etc just because his part black and they change the rules when they want...so to me it’s just another day in the life of a black women, black man, black family struggles with deal with day in and day out... it’s just that we are not sharing our stories with Oprah.
I agree n disagree . I think Megan was welcomed Charles walked her down the isle n the queen welcomed her as well . I think Megan had more problems than just race . She had problems with protocols n staff . The English want there monarch a certain way n Megan could not handle mayb bse she is American . I don’t think they hate Archie or lili . I think they just hate Megan
Some fair skinned people are automatically placed in a social narrative that is inaccessible to those with darker complexions. Many years ago a fair skinned friend and I worked in a boutique. She was allowed to work as a cashier. I was not because the employer didn’t trust black people handling the money. Subsequently, she was invited to social affairs at their home. It all came to a crashing end when black folk became the topic of discussion at one of the affairs. She told them she was black and cussed them out. Some weeks later she became a suspect after money was reportedly missing from the cash register.
Y'all peep the way light skin black women and mixed girls are saying we have to support her, were all black women, and flat out saying we have the same problems (colorism says hi)and are gaslighting dark skin and non mixed black women
Yep. Light skinned black women and mixed women are the big bad bullies and there’s absolutely no dark skinned black who support Megan and contribute to colorism 🙄
omgg I'm just clicking on all ur vids so they can be in my watch history when I wake up ^_^ I love ur content and just wanna hear your thoughts all day
Trillionaire* they been doing this for centuries and paying not a pay back a penny or even pay taxes. She's not black. I'm tired of ppl doing the most for a person who knew who she was marrying and even said she would go back if they accepted her not a word on decolonization. She didn't even call anyone out. She just shook that her blackness is coming up because she never had to deal with it
I definitely hear you and support you. I think why other black people mainly are defending her is because they empathize with the anti blackness that she experiences, despite her own proximity to whiteness as a light skinned biracial person that chose to marry into this family. It kind of goes back to the example of that darker skinned black woman who supports Trump and married a Trump supporting white man. While I loathe her actions I would still be upset to witness her being attacked by white people due to her race. Even if it is expected, and even if she didn't care herself. Anti blackness shouldn't exist no matter who experiences it and to what degree. But I do agree that Biracial light skinned people definitely don't experience it it on the same level as dark skinned black people. I agree with prioritizing dark skinned black women in this conversation 🖤 and love you btw
Coming from a dark skin black British woman, I think a lot this is coming from an american perspective. You lot are very unaware of how hidden the racism in the UK is. It is very pretentious about being anti racist when in fact it is the core of racism which is why I cannot side with this particular video. The British are very good at tricking black people into believing they're not racist so I can see how anyone would easily think they would have a smooth sailing life with the royal family while having black ancestry 🤷🏾♀️
As a mixed race Yup'ik, Aleut, and Sicilian woman, I've had some serious thoughts about Meghan and the conversation regarding her reception by the Windsors and how it's really done nothing positive for bringing awareness to issue of colorism. Thank you for not playing into the false, fantastical reality BOTH the Windsors, and the Sussexes, have tried to whip up for themselves, and their family narrative. The concept of monarchy is divisive and evil. A member of a monarchal family cannot logically campaign for social equality and racism awareness when their grandmother is Queen of the Commonwealth, when they wore Nazi costumes to halloween parties as teenagers/young adults and are shocked that people are offended by it, when they carry royal titles and live off the tax dollars of their working class citizens. When their entire lives have been that of extreme opulence, privilege, wealth, that said taxpayers cannot provide a comparable standard of living for themselves that they provide to the Windsors. This whole thing is ridiculous. Colonization by white people has all but killed my alaskan native culture, and yet because i'm pale it is highly important to me to listen to, hear, and applaud the voices of my darker skinned brothers and sisters FIRST on the issue of colorism,as they have been the ones oppressed and affected by it. To my fellow mixed race people, especially those who present as white: really listen to this message so we can better learn from a perspective that is different to the perspective we've personally lived and experienced, how to break the disgusting cycle of colorism, whitewashing, and help stop the perpetuation of said social system. Be an ally to those who have been oppressed, don't be an ally to the oppressors. Meghan willingly married into a family of oppressive, colonial racists. I'm extremely confused as to why she's confused at the way they treat people...It's not like they've been stealing, and raping cultures away from nations for some 600 years or anything. Quyana (thank you), and sending you love and support from Alaska Ellamiutuq Caquleg
You said she’s just mad cause she didn’t get the same privileges as the other white girls. I hate to break it to you but that’s why all black people are mad. Because they aren’t treated as well as white people. Her struggles shouldn’t be discounted bc she’s rich and according to you, “if she went elsewhere, she’d be fine”. So now that she’s not elsewhere and she’s not fine nko? And is unfairness to be addressed only when it happens to poor people? If she married into a “colonizing family” and decided not to engage in their racism and has her white husband supporting her, isn’t that a good thing? Doesn’t that help break the trend? “She’s not really black” If you actually aim for equality amongst black people, should you be saying things like that? Isn’t this part of the struggle that light skinned people face when they’re told they’re not black enough? Would you want your daughter to be told she’s not African enough because she’s not pigmented enough? If she wasn’t “actually black”, why would there be talks about the color of her son’s skin? I appreciate you for being conscious of social issues and being bold enough to speak on them and I’ve been blessed by your content in the past but what are you saying, my guy?
I also want to note, I never even thought about the monarchy and their roots to colonialism till I watched the crown and shawty really said “they’re thinking about freedom and went over there to stop that”. As an American I never gave a fuck about them. And your point how we shouldn’t even like them if completely right and I never thought about it because I’m Dominican (DR is hella anti black and I’m literally just learning about my blackness. My father is black and swore he wasn’t even though his melanin says otherwise) and I’m light skin, me being oblivious to it is prime example of my light skin privilege.
@@purplelove3666 My dad passed away recently.... He is black though. We're Dominican and DR has a whole anti black issue cuz of tuhiyo a dictator we had. They think Dominican is its own thing but you're either white Dominican of Spaniard descent or black Dominican of African descent. My mother is completely white and they never mixed. My grandfather was racist and he was mad about my mom mixing. Even my mom is racist at times, its deeply imbedded issue over there.
This is a bit disappointing, I’m not going to deny Meghan being a white-passing mixed lady gives her an advantage. But you said it yourself, she got herself into a place in which it was not a surprise she was discriminated against not because of her looks, but her ancestry. Sort of like the one-drop rule, even if she is a mixed woman, she can still face some of the issues black women experience day to day. Especially on such a massive scale, receiving hate because of something you can change like your genes by millions of people will take a toll on anyone. No one deserves that treatment, not even if it was something you could have seen coming. I believe in treating others the same way I would like them to treat me, and if I would not like people degrading me because of my color, I would not do the same to someone else, even if they are more “privileged”. Colorism is a horrible thing, and my heart goes to anyone who has experienced something like this, but you saying that her problems aren’t serious because she is light is no better than someone telling us that our problems don’t matter because we are dark. You can’t ask for compassion from other people for yourself but then say that someone else doesn’t deserve compassion because of the way they look. You can be extremely light, and white-passing, but that won’t shield you from racism or colorism. I don’t even like Meghan, nor do I consider her black, but when someone is hurting, especially to the point where they want to end their life, you don’t tell them that their problems don’t matter because someone else has it worse. There will always be someone who has it worse, and if using that as a way to invalidate people’s feelings that could also be applied to anyone on the west, to anyone with Wi-Fi, to anyone with food, and running water. We all have some sort of privilege whether it is socioeconomic, because of our ethnicity, because of our nationality, etc. and none of that will ensure that we will never suffer.
i liked this video but then unliked it. i agree with you. it's so valid to voice pain, especially pain that is generational, traumatic, and so unforgiving that it has become accepted as reality. but, i think that this conversation is important. from a white cis guy's perspective, this is the type of thing that both wakes white people up and makes many people of color feel validated, and I think that those things can both be positive. it is fine to not have sympathy for meghan, but yeah, i don't think we should be calling her the fool. she doesn't deserve that or the treatment she has gotten.
@@dillon5670 Yes! Sharing experiences and helping other people see how those things affect us can help star a dialog and start making changes. As you said, it’s ok not to sympathize with her. But ridiculing her for what she went through and saying it’s ok for her to go through that because she is light and she has money is not ok at all. Policing who can and who can’t share experiences only creates more division and resentment.
I liked this channel at first until this video all the judging on this woman for who she is and her journey is crazy made me think about the video she made about the nasty things people said about her and her hair and how it made her cry then she come with this video downing this woman basically for not being dark enough to be black and understand racism.Im unsubscribed.disappointing to see and hear black women light or dark put each other down and degrade one another.
I guess I wasn’t the only one saying this I see everyone at work talking about how bad they feel for her and I say I don’t give a shit about her because she know what she was getting herself into
she is so white passing at first I thought she was kite's sister. Also I dont understand some black women go crazy about her. She has clearly stated before that she is not ^black^ but she is ¨biracial¨ at the same time so many biracial people in the U.S refer to themselves as black.
No, what's toxic is the global empire of capitalism and racism that the British family has built on the backs of POC, and Meghan choosing to very intentionally marry into that. What was so toxic said in this video?
As many people said : "Colorism got her in the Royal Palace but racism got her out" ! XDDDD
GURL, I got dragged by my family for saying that I (an unambiguous BW) do not see myself in Meghan, and I genuinely thought she was a full on white woman. The only discourse I have with it is, "She really THOUGHT she could pass as a white woman to the Royal family who are adamantly anti-black to the highest degree". And not trying to downplay her "struggle" but the racism she faced from them was racism I dealt w/back in elementary. You can tell she never faced the full brunt of racism that unambiguous black people face everyday, and she was living it up in the USA passing as white in Hollyweird.
The only criticism is I wish you did an even longer video, this was wayyyy too short to dig into the nonsense ppl are saying/doing.
Okt but it’s kinda bullshit how you try to doen play someone else there racist experience thats like me comparing the racism towards asians now with the racism towards black people it is nit fair snd kind of stupid.
@@boredasf4856 I totally agree. That woman had her black momma on her arm all throughout her time in Britain. Like because her mom is light skin and Megan doesn’t look black she doesn’t have the same black issues? Like huh? That’s where people lose me. You can not down play someone else’s racial experience. You don’t know what she been through. Even her father been on some bs. He treats Megan differently than he does his other children. You can’t even begin to fathom what that does to someone mentally.
I thought she was white too. In Europe, especially southern Europe, there are many people who look similar to her in terms of colours and features. She would easily pass as a mediterranean type.
@@rachelp7204 Her overall racism experience (like with her dad) in her life is not something I can judge or speak on.
I strictly talked about the racism she dealt with the royal family she admitted to on the Oprah interview. She gets no sympathy from me because she should have known what she was marrying into like every black person does
@@_Kim_Possible you can’t know the whole picture of what your Marrying into. I’m American and I don’t know much about the royals. I thought they were rich and could do basically anything they wanted to. I believe when Harry came to the states sometime around 2008 or 2010 he was wilding. I’m pretty sure she didn’t know the full extent. Like her being locked in for months because she was getting more exposure than other than the queen. How could she have known Britain’s tabloids where going to harass her? How was she supposed to know someone was going to question how dark skinned her child was going to be? Like come on now.
I completely get you. The fact that no one (not even their mother) was calling her black or biracial until she married a prince and found out her mom was light skinned because she looks white and presented herself as white is beyond crazy to me. I literally can remember the day after their engagement was announced, all the magazines and news articles were praising her because she was "black" marrying into a rich white family and I was like who are the people responsible for this? Before the engagement she NEVER labeled herself as a black woman so now that you've married into a royal family that doesn't like you because you're not all white (even though you look white) you want to run with it and start saying things such as "as a black eoman"? GET OUTTA HERE!!! People talking about she's setting standards for black women with mental health. Ma'am, last time I checked I have been in therapy for the past 7 years for mental health issues and know people who have been for the past decade. I just don't understand why people are holding her up on much a high pedestal for marrying into one of the most white supremacy based family's in history.
It's like prince Harry meet her mom and said "Oh wait, you have some black in you? Hell yeah, welcome to the family, BLACK queen, this will be great for our reputation!!!" lol
@@PumaArg
😊..Her mom looks black!🤷🏼♀️
As a Black American I co-sign this sentiment!!💕
I 2nd that..lol
As a black American I don’t. Ignorance on ignorance is going to get us absolutely no where 🤦🏾♀️
@@beetybop2998 😬 👋🏾 if you think this is truth well then we have two different opinions of the truth. Like i said ignorance on ignorance wrapped up in ignorance is going to get us absolutely no where.
@@rachelp7204 as an Afro (African)carribean 🇭🇹 I agree with everything mayowa is saying!!!
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I’m glad you said it sis 😂
CAUSE 🥴🥴
IDGAF and I wish Black women would put that energy in themselves
Honestly, i thought I was the only one side eyeing this situation. It's really sad watching so many black women run to the rescue for someone who really doesn't look like them or isn't in the same tax bracket smh. Great move to Nigeria, abeg please link up with our ghel, Amara, the lesbian. You two are 🔥🔥🔥 🖤
Girl - you are light skin! Wtf? If that’s the standard you only one step above her
@@JL_Lux she’s obviously a light skinned BLACK woman. Not even close.
i totally agree. most black brits like myself realise meghan is not one of us for the reasons that you mentioned (class/colourism/white-passing/heteronormativity etc.) however i think this scandal is an important step in bringing down the british establishment, along with the intensely racist media that protects them. it makes me feel a little less crazy, like the racism i've experienced isn't actually all in my head 😅
but wouldn't the situation with Candace Brathwaite also make you feel seen? since she is experienced racism and colorism- that was in the UK
also how does one bring down the British establishment by defending someone who is literally married into that establishment? if anything it helps it maintain.
@@mayowasworld I guess it's maybe not so much defending her but it's more that people are clocking on that the institution is absolute bullshit and needs to be dismantled. The fact they are literally doing an interview because they have been cut off financially is very telling. The royals do ABSOLUTELY FUCK ALL!!!
@@mayowasworld i'm embarrassed to say it, but i'd never heard about her story as it wasn't headline news. thank you for mentioning it though, i'll acquaint myself with her and her work properly. i guess with meghan i'm just amazed at the amount of negative attention that's now being directed towards the royals and the media, two institutions that were completely untouchable but are now being called out for their destructiveness and irrelevance; even by people from within that circle. so it's not a massive systemic win, but a win nonetheless. i totally understand your exasperation though.
@@mayowasworld yeah i don't mean to defend her decision to marry into the royal family, i'm just observing the ripples from this situation
I don't want the refined version. I want the raw version.
The white wedding dress. Interesting that you mentioned that. I made a comment about that on a another RUclips channel (Say Yes To The Dress) a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it was Queen Victoria who started that trend.
Luv the vid!
thank you for the love!
And you think Meghan will judge Harry by what his great grandmother did that's if she's even aware of the origin.
Seriously black people need to get off their high horses stop acting
like we don't have Royals. Stop acting like we treat whites as equals. The hyprpcracises is crazy get a grip and realise human nature comes with it darkside. Let's call out wickedness full stop. Don't fool yourself. How many Nigerian women marry for money and status despite the family track record do you think corrupt governmentofficials are short of women despite there track record NO!!!!!!. How many Nigerian women have a sponsor....stop the nonsense.
@@vivianmensah1882 what are even talking about ? That’s not the problem… she is saying that after the history of the royal family, she decided to enter that realm and now she want sympathy and support ? Like didn’t she know where she was going to?
I didn't even know her and when the interview stuff broke and started seeing pics I didn't know had any black in her.
She's definitely lived all her life without feeling an ounce of discrimination and now she married a royal, is richer, and wants sympathy... Hard pass.
Sympathy you have no idea she put her life on the line to stand up to falsehood in the Monarchy ....do you know what happened to the last person that exposed the Royals....she's dead now.
@@vivianmensah1882 I wish her well but not gonna spend any more energy on this.
they colonized Botswana
we went to school during winter cause its in alignment with Britain, cause in their country is summer imagine...at school i was always pissed asking questions that no one wants to ask
So thrilled I know of your channel and work! As a Ghanaian-American who lived in Nigeria as a child, I'm horrified by the evil propaganda of "pretty", "exciting" or "engaging" as descriptors for shows like Bridgerton or The Crown. I'd be offended if HBO's "Confederate" show had been made. I feel sorry whenever folks are maltreated/othered. I'm glad she's left. NEVERTHELESS, it's patently clear that she didn't expect to be treated as dark-skinned Black folks are. If the virulent racism against someone with her phenotype doesn't tell us how much Europeans hate our presence, even when it's barely visible, nothing will. She's always said "woman of color" "biracial" or "mixed race" in reference to her identity and she's welcome to do that. It's intellectually dishonest, however, for her to claim that people in "the Commonwealth" see "representation" "someone who looks like them" when we/they see her. Let's use a term she'll now know- "that's a bloody lie!" Even when people's only sign of being mixed is light skin we're still quick to think of "half-caste" as a compliment- an insult borne of British twisting of Indian systems. The Biracial/partly Black peeps I rock with (within & outside my family) are the ones who embrace and affirm their Black heritage even as they affirm their other side. That family is overflowing with blood-massacres, rapes, genocide, theft, displacement, etc. I cannot look at any of their jewels without thinking of that. Enslavement in the diaspora as well as on the continent is/was continued by their child, the U.S. Sorry for the super lengthy post. I've been yearning for discourse like this.
U SAID IT ALL!
@@mayowasworld , I was just following up on your astute analysis.❤ 🙌🏿. No be our wahala. Mek dem carry dey go.
I 100% agree!
Love Heals, I had the same thoughts as you while watching their Oprah interview. You can see in her face that she didn't think they would treat Her with any hint of racism. She thought their beliefs about blacks, biracials, kinda mixed, minorities etc would not apply to Her. Great point.
your big smile in the intro immediately made me smile as well, just the way your face was lit up and my day got better. i could feel the passion and i love your voice. can’t wait for the video updating and telling us about Lagos!
You’re 100% right Megan looked past literal centuries of oppression n made her own choice that it was okay to align with that n we supposed to SYMPATHIZE?? cuz her feelings hurt??? Absolutely not.
I am kind of approaching it like when a friend needs comfort after breaking up with an asshole boyfriend/girlfriend; I feel bad for her and support her, but everyone saw it coming and they should have known better. What else was gonna happen when entering a colonialist institution/a family that abandoned Harry’s Mom and fed her to the wolves/media.
I only feel bad for her when after having her child they took away her security AKA was leaving her for dead. I knew they did microaggressions and might say slick stuff here and there but to try to k!ll her and her innocent baby is just sad.
@@aunaturellebri09 Good peep I didn't notice the icon was a yt woman
@@_Kim_Possible yeah, it’s like how Mayowa mentioned healthcare of black woman giving birth. The rate of black mother or child mortality is too damn low. That they protect the other white princes and princesses 💔
@@aunaturellebri09 can you talk more about that?
But she's not your friend and it doesn't make you less antiblack as a yt person
Your take on on this is so important to me. You're hella educated and you see right through all the propaganda bs.
I couldn’t put my finger on why this shit is pissing me off. You’re right. Y’all don’t care about colorism until someone asks about the color of MM baby 🙄
I live in America and my entire Family is from Barbados 🇧🇧. Thank you for telling the truth. There where multiple videos done by black British people warning Megan not to join the royal family if she cared anything about black peoples. Especially if she was as “ woke “ as she and her racist husband claim to be now. She went and joined the most racist institution in the history of the world anyway. Now she wants to act surprised that a institution built on blood lines and heritage is racist. Of course it is ! She never wanted to be known as black . She use to get offended when people would ask her race. Now that it suits her , she is black ? The false equivalency she made about the LA race riots in her article she wrote was offensive. I do not feel sorry for her at all.
But just because ancestors of the Queen did this or that? Why is the current Royal Family to blame? That is not fair.
@kathrynowens3324 ancestors?
I know my father and his school mates did not do whole ass March past for the queen for you to say ancestors.
My dad is not yet 60 BTW.
Nigeria just turned 60 like 3 years ago. It's not the queen's ancestors, it's her
Omg! Thank you. I felt so alone in my opinion. I feel bad for her as a woman, but I can’t give her the black sympathy card. Not when she built her career on passing for fully white.
@Maverick Haven mammy
she chose to get married, she know what she got herself into. i love when you brought the accent out.
I totally agree with you. We can ignore the fact that she willingly chose to marry into this evil family. Now she’s complaining, even if what they are doing is not right, she chose this life. Also now that she’s famous she became black all of a sudden ? Come on, ppl need to stop with this 1 drop rule racist bs. Anyway, thanks for sharing your opinion on this. I was tired of seeing black women caping for a biracial woman who made bad life choices especially because we know she wouldn’t have the same treatment if she was a dark skinned black woman.
The 1 drop rule got black people in a choke hold, it’s funny too bc it was created by yt men during the slave era 😂 but they hold on too that mindset so hard
LISTEN 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️
Ur right especially when u talked abt the dark skin women who are married to the yt supremacist yet we have no sympathy for them
I still don't understand why people are getting triggered by this video. What is hard to understand here?
The message is simple: "You can't (as a black person or person mixed with black) marry a racist and then expect us to cry for you".
No.
I wonder how those people who are trying to twist this into some kind of "colourist-hate rant" against Meghan chose to ignore the part where she talked about a fellow dark-skin black woman in the US who married a racist white man 7:50 . She basically said the same thing about that woman that she says about Meghan. I personally can't tell if Mayowa hates Meghan or not 🤷🏿♀️ from this video, but I can see the truth in what she is saying.
Why must black people (especially dark-skinned people) be forced to sympathise with every human being with a drop of black blood including those that share little to no experiences with them, do not want to be associated with black, and willingly marry into racist families. 🤷🏿♀️ You still want our tears?
Na by force?
I don't see anything out of place in Mayowa being unbothered.
For me, when I see it, I'm like "Eeyah. So sad." Moving on.
It's not hate, it's indifference.
Please stop the gaslighting. You can cry for her, but please leave those that won't alone.
Thank you!💯
@@PlantBasedHomeEconomics Who does sound racist to you and why do you think that?
It’s because people don’t respect black people. When you don’t have respect, other people feel entitled to your feelings, energy, etc. They also put different rules on black people compared to others. This is why I don’t give a damn what other people go through; if it don’t affect me, then oh well; sucks for them.
Most multiracial people that are white passing and live in western society do not associate themselves with blackness. They don't do it, because they know why. She never did it, so it can't be expected of the black community to come to her aid now that the royal family has let her known that they see her as a common n-ord.
At first glance,I was sympathetic but then reality hit and it hit me that it's her fault.I am a Kenyan ,and the colonial experiences that Kenya and Nigeria face are very similar.I honestly don't understand how she could do marry into that family because there's google and if she thought she would change them she clearly doesn't understand the backseat is for her.
She grew up in south central La. Wtf are you even talking about
@@JL_Lux Not you bootlicking Meghan. It's a nasty look - please stop.
Several points. The cognitive dissonance of it all. She did go through it in that palace but we need to have some perspective. She CHOSE to get involved with that family. The rest of the world (BIPOC) did not.
Facts upon facts. She CHOSE to marry into this family and has to take the consequences for it herself. I couldn’t care less
Yeah...I was watching that interview and was exhausted AF. I feel for any person of color that's dealing with white supremacy. Glad that racist is called out, I don't like a woman having to deal with fear and anxiety while pregnant. BUT now that that's out of the way that whole interview was a fucking nod to all the pearl-clutching, "I don't see color" white people who like to pretend we're "post-racial". Wasn't for us. I was over it 5 min in.
And Harry being all "it was awkward" when talking about race SMH
@@edgytypebeat781 i feel like she could handle her own racism but it really got to her when they were talking about her unborn child
I’m glad u feel for anybody of color going they this because this blogger doesn’t. She’s jealous af and it’s showing
I couldn't finish it
@@lanishajackson2677 She's a tad bit bonkers😂🤦🏾♀️ what was she going on about?! I personally am not a fan of Meghan and Harry or the royal family, but who am I to disregard their experiences. I feel like if the royal family was truly against Meghan, the wedding would not have have happened. Normally, it's a problem for divorce people to marry into royalty, they made so many exceptions for Meghan. She just does not understand royal protocol, which is understandable.
@@reinelena9915 she was also doing the annoying Madonna thing of putting on an accent 🙄
I just found you channel thru like 3 other natural hair channels I follow. Please. I beg of you. Keep this same energy. You’re refreshing and a brilliant ray of inspiration.
Don’t change.
She's the whitest "mixed race" woman I've seen in my life.
As a British person I fully agree with everything you are saying. I long ago gave up patriotism and being "proud" of our country, and its royal family. They are a cruel joke, and a waste of money. Why does our country need PR anyway?
The royal family is the only thing that sells Uk
Mayowa your eyeshadow is soooooo beautiful! I love the looks you do with your makeup and ways you style your hair.
I am incredibly thankful for this video because you are high key saying everything I have been thinking but most people (only Black people because I wouldn’t even bother or care to hear about a non Black person’s opinion on this topic) shame me and try to shut me down for it. Also Harry admitted that she could have been an “asset” if they accepted her and would have been happy to help in anyway. She also said she wasn’t familiar with the family at all 🥴
I cringed at “asset”. I have to be happy that Meghan left then, because I know they would’ve tried to use her to make claims that they’re accepting of Black folks. I’m glad she can no longer be used as a prop.
exactly!!! it was so creepy how he talked about her as well. and thank you for the compliment!
@@alisharo58 they tried that with their “Blackity Black” wedding. But at the end of the day the family does not care about Black folks. So I don’t know why Harry thought it could have even been a possibility
@Empress91 same here sis. And the highlights made me uncomfy enough
Yes its stunning and suits you very much ....you are stunning.
Honestly you just changed my whole opinion on this and made me laugh too 😄, i would subscribe again if i could 👏🏾
Love your video! The royal family ain’t gonna let anyone marry into the family. Both of Meghan’s parents had received their coats of arms. Meghan tries to play dumb that she didn’t do any research about the royal family when she studied international relations in college, went to the Uk to travel, and dreamt of marrying into the royal family. She willing knew what she was getting herself into and when she experienced racism (which she most likely haven’t experienced much of) she wants to call on Oprah! Meghan can cry some where else! There’s bigger issues at stake and it’s only when biracial women complains that people have sympathy. Also, if the royal family accepted her she would have never complained, which speaks volumes as to her willing to marry into white supremacy ✌🏾💯
Thank you. This is very powerful! Thank you for turning the glass so that we all can see a different perspective 👏🏽
I find Meghan Markle to be incredibly disingenuous. She’s trying to garner support from the black community after refusing to even acknowledge her blackness and identify as black. Now suddenly she’s looking for black women to cry for her. She’s really weird honestly. And it makes me sick that the loudest people in these debates about what’s going on with her are dark skinned unambiguous black women. Light skinned women need to be the ones in these discussions since they love to talk about the discrimination they face whenever dark skinned black women talk about colorism 🙄 this is their time to shine now, lol. But as you can see they don’t actually care all that much, it’s only when dark skinned black women start talking about their experiences that they suddenly want to ME TOO the conversations.
I just see through her and her bs. Like you said she knew exactly who she was marrying when she married him. I wish she would just keep it real and say “I’m white passing and style myself in ways that make it difficult to see my blackness, so because of my willingness to perform I thought they’d accept me as part of the family and it made me feel bad when they didn’t.”
But obviously she isn’t going to say something like that. Light skinned biracial women lie a lot even to themselves I notice. They have issues and don’t even want to acknowledge the ways they try to chameleon through society and then when they get the wake up call that they aren’t white like they keep pretending to be , they start crying about the racism they swore didn’t exist and didn’t effect their lives.
I think to be honest
Meghan has always identified as a biracial woman of color
Which is what she is
America loves identifying biracial people as black
Some African countries call biracial people coloured people e.g... South Africa and Zimbabwe
I don't think she has even gone after black support
But because she is a biracial american woman and the one drop rule
The narrative which is out of her control was going to be she is a black woman
And as a result that was going to bring black people into the conversation
She never asked for black people's support they came on their own
@@joshroberts1936 Exactly, I feel like Meghan does not understand royal protocol. She experienced culture shock. She's a bit narcissistic too.
She is mixed race. She has spoken of her struggles as a mixed race woman way before she entered the Palace. She said she was never black enough for black roles nor was she white enough for white roles. What is your issue with that please explain?
Wow you are bitter ....just remember even when you are light skin there is always a shade lighter than you there fore someone will find a reason to hate you for being too dark...do you know that Greeks in Britain were not considered white? Stop getting hung up on bull crap. Light skin woman are put on a pedal stool over dark skin woman but how the hell can you deny someone's experience of racism? You don't get decided if someone has experienced racism do you actually understand that ?
I do agree that many mixed race people try to chameleon their way through life, and they will be quick to distance themselves from darker people when it no longer benefits them, but they will also be quick to cry racism when they realise the truth about how whites view them. Whites fiercely gate-keep when it comes to their culture and identity, and I just wish that we as blacks would do the same.
Sigh. This content gives me joy. Because even in the face of inclusivity, people like me still feel left out.
I feel like she’s just mad she finally got a sliver of the negative experiences of people who actually ID as Black LOL
@Maverick Haven of course that's bad. And I at least am not denying the racism she's experienced.
However, before all of this happened she was happily benefiting from her white privilege. I do feel sorry for Meghan because no one deserves to experience racism. But I'm mad that it took a nearly white woman to talk about colorism to talk about colorism and acknowledge it on a large scale.
Why don't we give the same energy when a dark skinned woman is talking about colorism? When a dark skinned woman talks about the way she's been excluded, bullied, stereotyped, experienced much worse colorism? Because then all of a sudden people want to gaslight and say it's all in our heads, but as soon as a white passing woman says she experienced the tiniest bit of colorism, everyone cares. That's what I'm angry about.
@@thedestroyer9024 I completely agree.It's almost like the thing she was running away from came to bite her in the end.
Also this days people just want to commercialize and fetishize to dark skinned women but not actually listen and pay attention to what they are saying.
@Maverick Haven she married into the ultimate colonizer family. Why would anyone in their right mind expect anything diffeent? That’s the whole point. Ol girl walked right into the sunken place
Exactly, that's what this is really about; Meghan has been very successful at White passing all of her life, and she thought with this ability, she would be accepted into the Royal family. Unfortunately, that's not how it all went down, they made it very clear to her that she's an outsider. Now, Meghan being a narcissist, experiencing this kind of rejection from the Monarchy was very mortifying for her.
I’m glad there’s so many people who feel the same way! I have no sympathy for her because she was fine claiming to be white and no one knew she was even mixed until she came back to the US and decided to capitalize off the BLM movement and the ever growing topic of racism that was very prevalent and it she used that to get clout and attention and our own people who can’t even pass for white were helping them out with housing and we’re giving her a voice, when in my opinion people who can’t pass for white should be given more of a voice. Not saying if you’re mixed your opinion doesn’t matter but us non ambiguous peoples voices are always getting drowned out by a lot of racially ambiguous people who are always trying the be the “voice” for us and our experience is not their experience and it is frustrating.
It threw me off when Meghan said she didn't know about the royal family and didn't do any research into them in the interview with Oprah
I agree with you 100%
Meghan kind of showed that she didn't care for the black side of her by marrying into this family.
There are other ways to bring down the enemy other than shacking up with them.
(And if you don't see them as an enemy I guess all that money they pay the press is working 🤦♀️)
And this family isn't a disney villain
To this day to STILL be collecting money from the 'common wealth' and not even BEGIN to APOLOGIZE
I-
That wouldnt** even make up for the atrocities they've commited or had commited in their name
The British Monarchy can F*ck All The Way Off 🙄😒
She definitely knew about the royal family and if she didn’t that would mean she’s either uneducated or willfully ignorant. America only exists because of the British empire, so how can a whole American citizen sit there and say she didn’t know about the royal family? Nah, she knew and didn’t give a fck.
@@BlackStar312 and in any of those ways you don't care about the atrocities that family has committed
my heart goes out to her for her legitament fear that people will kill her kids but that family has done way worse to children, mostly those of color - and they got the worst of it. A whole group of kids Went Missing while taking a walk with that B
I do not agree. Her personal choice to marry a person should not be based on the history of the whole family of the person she married to. That kind of Burdon should not be placed on a woman. Does not make any sense to me. She married up and did well, whatever. I do not care about that. What I do think that is that she should take the responsibility of the choices she made, if you marry into a prejudice and racist family don't be surprised and shocked if they are....... racist! It was to be expected anyway.
Meghan: I didn't do any research into them
Her black ancestors: pls say sike
There is childhood video of Meghan when she was a teenager she went on a trip to England on a royal bus tour to visit the royal palace and to learn royal history. So yeah I don’t believe for a second she didn’t know. She knew, she just didn’t care, she wanted to marry a prince and be noticed by the world. You can see her childhood photos and videos of her in England on royal tours, you can see she has an obsession with the royal family. Just search on RUclips Meghan markle royal bus tour.
I really think Meghan thought the royal family had progressed enough to not think of her as "too black". But even baby Archie is going to be too black for them growing up, and he's the one I feel bad for because Meghan definitely made her choice and he's just being born into it.
I don't believe for one second that Meghan's skin color is the reason for her troubles with the royal family. Her troubles are all of her own makings. She wanted Hollywood privilege and freedom but she got Royal duties instead and that was not bougie glamorous enough for her.
Kay La So true
I don't think that is true though. Not to be mean, but when looking at Meghan Markle, she appears to me as a ''social climber''. I think she thought she was going to live a Hollywood princess/ archduchess you name it ''fairy tale'' life in the UK. Now I can't blame her, I would have done the same, given the opportunity. And we will not pretend as if other women despite race would not have done the same. We see it everyday in real life. They are marrying man of means amongst all kinds of ranks with all kinds of professions, living their best life. So I am not judging Meghan Markle especially since she has a black mother.
Lmao in a few years her sons picture is gonna be on Twitter people gonna ask: y’all wouldn’t think this was a little black boy growing up? .
Ok but who gonna tell her that I love her & her makeup so much!!💓💓💓
aww thank u! I was experimenting with colors
@@mayowasworld it looks super good on you!
@@mayowasworld Colors were made for our skintone babyyy!
First of all Megan don’t owe y’all nothing. I repeat 🗣 Megan don’t owe y’all nothing!!!!! But still Megan gave her testimony to the public and what’s she’s practically saying “ they treated me this way and I look like this”. READ BETWEEN THE LINES PEOPLE. Megan painted the picture for y’all now look at it as a whole. She practically said they are racist! But let’s not downplay someone’s else racist experience because they are biracial or light skin!!!!! Just stop! We have come too far for that ignorant bs. I am a brown skin woman but I would never say my experience is worse than the next because they aren’t dark enough. Alllllllll of these people have something to bring to the table. We all need to have eachothers back. If not, we will crumble under the weight of our own ignorance. Do y’all think Dr King and Malcom X was telling people they couldn’t March with them because they weren’t dark enough? They even had white people marching with them. Like I’m done I’m through. That woman has been through it. And black folks mad because she isn’t wrapped up in a dark enough package. Girrllll it’s the ignorance for me. She ain’t dark enough to rep black people yet she ain’t white enough. Haha y’all are proving the biracial point for them. Ughhh black folks make me sick. Like 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
What bothers me about Meghan is how she admitted to not doing any research on the royal family, and didn't know what she got herself into when she married Harry. This chick really thought that being a part of the royal family would be like a like Disney movie or something.
I would have thought the same, and I think it's easy for you to scrutinise someone when you were not the one who fell for someone. But I am sure if you were in her position there are many things you would have done wrong too.
With her lying ass!
@@freeeepalestine__ no black person would be in her situation unless they’re marrying into some sort of African royalty 😭😭 which is probably gatekept by them against Americans or foreigners.
@@kamoniesloan1352 exactly. More reason why we should keep our mouths shut on not speak on it as we can never relate.
“If my daughter told me she’s going to marry a colonizer, she’s not my daughter..”
lmaoooo I love you girl 🤣🤣🤣
Cosign
That's wack ash.
And I feel everything you saying and agree BUT being a lighter complicated BLACK person I can say that yes the fuck we do still get discriminated against although I WILL NOT LIE that YES the DARKER YOU ARE AND THE KINKIER YOUR HAIR IS, THE HARDER IT IS FOR YOU IN LIFE. but at this point we all got some other shit in our dna because of the colonizers! I wish a mf would say I’m not Black! Really No One is Black we’re different shades of brown and some of us are this beautiful type purplish brownish color.
OMG You are making me jealous, I want to get out of America so bad. Great video
So what holding you back are you in a slave ship??just go...
Oh, can't wait for this.
I'm glad you didn't stop making RUclips videos, you talk about stuff I don't normally hear about and I am happy to be able to hear about these issues from someone who faces them every day. Thank you ❤
Thank you for putting words to this, I have struggled to explain this issue to my white family and your video has given me a lot to consider when I engage in these conversations. Stay beautiful, stay loud, and thanks again 💕
Yall, as a black Brit i hate how im expected to choose a side. AuNtY MeG didnt care about how they literally slaughtered, raped, destroyed, and kidnapped my mom/dads tribe (also nigerians) and countless others.
It wasnt even that long ago, twas under the previous queens rule. I get why she did it, power is nice but how can one be ok with associating with such a disgusting lineanage.
I feel bad for her but at the same time im not that invested.
My Nigerian sister, you’ve said everything I was thinking but couldn’t articulate 💖
Thank you so much for this. I am ashamed to say I needed to hear it.
Don't worry you're not alone in that sis
i think that if meghan was a real dark skin they wont never allow her to marry the prince
she entered in that in favor of her light skin complexion
Boom! EXACTLY!
Yep yep
Obviously
I’ve been saying this. Love you. She’s getting what she deserves. Shes less than 1/3 black. I could care less. Did we send you into that family? NO. Not my problem.
Maverick Haven she 1/3 her mom is black but not fully. Therefore she’s can’t be 50%. Learn to read/ count !!! I never said 1/4!!!!! 1/3 =33% ! Her mom is probably 70/75% black. BYE.
Welcome back 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬
She got in because of colorism and got kicked out because of anti blackness
That part! I'm surprised they let her in in the first place 😂😂
As a light skinned "pretty" black woman I can't keep track of how many opportunities I got that my darker skinned mother never would have/could have gotten. In the same token, not a single one of those opportunities were close to that of my white peers and the second they realized how "into my blackness" I am, they shut me out and threw away the key.
Megan married into a racist white family riding off of pretty light skinned privilege but is realizing now that even if she doesn't identify as a black woman, the white world will always see her that way and will cast her aside the second she stops being who they want her to be. It's the same thing that happened with Stacey Dash. She loved being the "pretty light skinned" token during Trump's era and when every other white politician and reporter gets absolved for their anti-blackness, she's left out in the dark because those people never cared about her or saw her as an equal.
I really hope these people can decolonize their minds but when you're handed the world for being pretty and light it takes a really great support system to remind you how fragile that position is and how beneficial it is to reject it until ALL black people get those opportunities.
@@nl8661 even though this comment is 2 months ago I agree with it the royal family is a mess when it to black people like me but I'm sorry but at the end of the day Megan is in the wrong to she haves the light skin and pretty face so she uses that and the fact that she's half black you black people are going to stand up for because that are people do if you did something wrong they going to stand up for you and the people in the comments are mostly black I think they got common sense
I just love your energy ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙌🏾🙌🏾
Yes !!
yay thank you!
@@mayowasworld you are so welcome.
I understand what you're saying when you say "oh her mental health was suffering, but what about our mental health," but I think it's valid that two realities can exist in tandem and both can be true. I think you can be upset about how she was treated (despite how unsurprisingly predictable it was) and also be extremely angry at colorism and racism that exists all around us. Imo, the two aren't mutually exclusive; one doesn't erase or discredit the other. The real issue is, like you said, this story got all this public attention bc she's light skin and the royal family is so rich and famous, while dark-skinned black womxn's voices are consistently overlooked. There's never this much of a fuss over when shit happens to us. Where Meghan really missed the mark for me was when she said "I want people of color to see themselves in me" or whatever...I was kinda like ??? ummm 😩✋🏾
Also, I watched the interview but I didn't hear her say she didn't want to be called black, is that a separate reference? I know in the video you said she's not black because her phenotype is fair skin, but what do you think about bi-racial people who openly identify as black? Like is that valid, despite their skin not being dark? Or for instance, albino black people who identify as black. Even though they don't face colorism, in your opinion are they still allowed to be called black/is their blackness and experiences legitimate?
Thank you for the captions
yesss I do the each video
You are so freaking beautiful my goodness! I just subscribed, loving bingeing your videos right now so glad I found you KEEP SPEAKING THE TRUTH!!!!!!!
Love you Mayowa!! Thanks for speaking out!
thank you for the love!
Totally agree! I am so glad you had this video. I have the same sentiments.
You are a smart and deep sistah.❤🙏👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
thank u oo
❤❤❤ you keep up the hot topics and congrats on your move!!!
On point as always! And congratulations to your move to Nigeria!!
But you do realize that according to her you are not even a black person, cause you are biracial, right?
@@cynamonskye and thats true. What is wrong with that ?
@cynamon skye But I've never been put down because of it. In my entire home country Tanzania I'm probably not seen as a Black person. That's nothing new.
I love how your accent has changed already lol
This is hilariously on point. Congrats on moving to Lagos! Live your best life!
Never thought of it that way - really great perspective
Your voice is very much needed on this platform. I'm glad you feel reinvigorated to make videos
I’m not surprised by the way Megan was treated..she’s not saying anything different that any other black women has suffered and continue to suffer with these kind of issues.
She’s light skinned and probably thought she will get a pass but they don’t see that..at the end of the day no matter the skin color light or dark they will only see you one way. Reality hit her and they gave Harry the boot too just cause.
His family probably thought, he’s just dating and it won’t go that far but the minute they heard baby coming..everyone is cut off. The child gets no title, no security etc just because his part black and they change the rules when they want...so to me it’s just another day in the life of a black women, black man, black family struggles with deal with day in and day out... it’s just that we are not sharing our stories with Oprah.
Why do you assume she thought that?
I agree n disagree . I think Megan was welcomed Charles walked her down the isle n the queen welcomed her as well . I think Megan had more problems than just race . She had problems with protocols n staff . The English want there monarch a certain way n Megan could not handle mayb bse she is American . I don’t think they hate Archie or lili . I think they just hate Megan
As black conservative never really found Meghan attractive love me a real sister.
Some fair skinned people are automatically placed in a social narrative that is inaccessible to those with darker complexions. Many years ago a fair skinned friend and I worked in a boutique. She was allowed to work as a cashier. I was not because the employer didn’t trust black people handling the money. Subsequently, she was invited to social affairs at their home. It all came to a crashing end when black folk became the topic of discussion at one of the affairs. She told them she was black and cussed them out. Some weeks later she became a suspect after money was reportedly missing from the cash register.
Can’t wait to see another video from you, Mayowa! I hope you are doing well and caring for yourself! 🌸💓
-because there’s nobody else out here just like you and your voice matters. Shine on 🌼✨
Y'all peep the way light skin black women and mixed girls are saying we have to support her, were all black women, and flat out saying we have the same problems (colorism says hi)and are gaslighting dark skin and non mixed black women
Yep. Light skinned black women and mixed women are the big bad bullies and there’s absolutely no dark skinned black who support Megan and contribute to colorism 🙄
@@shae20yearsago43 where did I say their wasn't I'll wait..........
Cloudy Heart Your comment is enough for me to think that was what you’re implying
@@shae20yearsago43 nope thats only what you want to believe!
Cloudy Heart Ok well I’ll believe it because of the way you interpreted it
Right let's focus all this energy on actual black women who are and have been facing racism.
WHERE IS THE LIE? as usual, I agree with you.
omgg I'm just clicking on all ur vids so they can be in my watch history when I wake up ^_^ I love ur content and just wanna hear your thoughts all day
Trillionaire* they been doing this for centuries and paying not a pay back a penny or even pay taxes. She's not black. I'm tired of ppl doing the most for a person who knew who she was marrying and even said she would go back if they accepted her not a word on decolonization. She didn't even call anyone out. She just shook that her blackness is coming up because she never had to deal with it
Pretty speculative and dismissive don'tcha think
@@atm_ovie4869 no
🤣🤣🤣
She said what she said!👊🏾
Girl. You are a riot! TFS!❤️
You’re so FLIPPING FUNNYYYY😂! Dropping major Gems!
I haven’t even watched yet, but I’m liking based on the title alone.
Spicy topic!!
Btw, loving your makeup 🥰 so unique!
I definitely hear you and support you. I think why other black people mainly are defending her is because they empathize with the anti blackness that she experiences, despite her own proximity to whiteness as a light skinned biracial person that chose to marry into this family. It kind of goes back to the example of that darker skinned black woman who supports Trump and married a Trump supporting white man. While I loathe her actions I would still be upset to witness her being attacked by white people due to her race. Even if it is expected, and even if she didn't care herself. Anti blackness shouldn't exist no matter who experiences it and to what degree. But I do agree that Biracial light skinned people definitely don't experience it it on the same level as dark skinned black people. I agree with prioritizing dark skinned black women in this conversation 🖤 and love you btw
Our girl is definitely speaking what we're all thinking.
Thankfully 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Coming from a dark skin black British woman, I think a lot this is coming from an american perspective. You lot are very unaware of how hidden the racism in the UK is. It is very pretentious about being anti racist when in fact it is the core of racism which is why I cannot side with this particular video. The British are very good at tricking black people into believing they're not racist so I can see how anyone would easily think they would have a smooth sailing life with the royal family while having black ancestry 🤷🏾♀️
As a mixed race Yup'ik, Aleut, and Sicilian woman, I've had some serious thoughts about Meghan and the conversation regarding her reception by the Windsors and how it's really done nothing positive for bringing awareness to issue of colorism. Thank you for not playing into the false, fantastical reality BOTH the Windsors, and the Sussexes, have tried to whip up for themselves, and their family narrative. The concept of monarchy is divisive and evil. A member of a monarchal family cannot logically campaign for social equality and racism awareness when their grandmother is Queen of the Commonwealth, when they wore Nazi costumes to halloween parties as teenagers/young adults and are shocked that people are offended by it, when they carry royal titles and live off the tax dollars of their working class citizens. When their entire lives have been that of extreme opulence, privilege, wealth, that said taxpayers cannot provide a comparable standard of living for themselves that they provide to the Windsors. This whole thing is ridiculous.
Colonization by white people has all but killed my alaskan native culture, and yet because i'm pale it is highly important to me to listen to, hear, and applaud the voices of my darker skinned brothers and sisters FIRST on the issue of colorism,as they have been the ones oppressed and affected by it. To my fellow mixed race people, especially those who present as white: really listen to this message so we can better learn from a perspective that is different to the perspective we've personally lived and experienced, how to break the disgusting cycle of colorism, whitewashing, and help stop the perpetuation of said social system. Be an ally to those who have been oppressed, don't be an ally to the oppressors. Meghan willingly married into a family of oppressive, colonial racists. I'm extremely confused as to why she's confused at the way they treat people...It's not like they've been stealing, and raping cultures away from nations for some 600 years or anything.
Quyana (thank you), and sending you love and support from Alaska
Ellamiutuq Caquleg
Well said!
I love hearing you speak. Thank you for opening my eyes to the issues surrounding this.
You said she’s just mad cause she didn’t get the same privileges as the other white girls. I hate to break it to you but that’s why all black people are mad. Because they aren’t treated as well as white people.
Her struggles shouldn’t be discounted bc she’s rich and according to you, “if she went elsewhere, she’d be fine”. So now that she’s not elsewhere and she’s not fine nko? And is unfairness to be addressed only when it happens to poor people?
If she married into a “colonizing family” and decided not to engage in their racism and has her white husband supporting her, isn’t that a good thing? Doesn’t that help break the trend?
“She’s not really black” If you actually aim for equality amongst black people, should you be saying things like that? Isn’t this part of the struggle that light skinned people face when they’re told they’re not black enough? Would you want your daughter to be told she’s not African enough because she’s not pigmented enough? If she wasn’t “actually black”, why would there be talks about the color of her son’s skin?
I appreciate you for being conscious of social issues and being bold enough to speak on them and I’ve been blessed by your content in the past but what are you saying, my guy?
I’m glad I watched this. I was feeling some kinda way at first but now I see you. I see you. ❤️
I also want to note, I never even thought about the monarchy and their roots to colonialism till I watched the crown and shawty really said “they’re thinking about freedom and went over there to stop that”. As an American I never gave a fuck about them. And your point how we shouldn’t even like them if completely right and I never thought about it because I’m Dominican (DR is hella anti black and I’m literally just learning about my blackness. My father is black and swore he wasn’t even though his melanin says otherwise) and I’m light skin, me being oblivious to it is prime example of my light skin privilege.
If your father said he is not black.then ask him what he is
@@purplelove3666 My dad passed away recently.... He is black though. We're Dominican and DR has a whole anti black issue cuz of tuhiyo a dictator we had. They think Dominican is its own thing but you're either white Dominican of Spaniard descent or black Dominican of African descent. My mother is completely white and they never mixed. My grandfather was racist and he was mad about my mom mixing. Even my mom is racist at times, its deeply imbedded issue over there.
@@polyphony7216 wow.and I am sorry for your loss hunky condolence
Love hearing your thoughts :) Hope your move is going smoothly as possible
Second new video I’ve viewed as a new Subbie, and all I can say is yes . Cannot wait to hear your thoughts ❤️
This is the second video I have seen from you. I am solo glad I hit subscribe. I just love it all. Now I gotta catch up on your vids.
This is a bit disappointing,
I’m not going to deny Meghan being a white-passing mixed lady gives her an advantage. But you said it yourself, she got herself into a place in which it was not a surprise she was discriminated against not because of her looks, but her ancestry. Sort of like the one-drop rule, even if she is a mixed woman, she can still face some of the issues black women experience day to day. Especially on such a massive scale, receiving hate because of something you can change like your genes by millions of people will take a toll on anyone.
No one deserves that treatment, not even if it was something you could have seen coming. I believe in treating others the same way I would like them to treat me, and if I would not like people degrading me because of my color, I would not do the same to someone else, even if they are more “privileged”.
Colorism is a horrible thing, and my heart goes to anyone who has experienced something like this, but you saying that her problems aren’t serious because she is light is no better than someone telling us that our problems don’t matter because we are dark.
You can’t ask for compassion from other people for yourself but then say that someone else doesn’t deserve compassion because of the way they look. You can be extremely light, and white-passing, but that won’t shield you from racism or colorism.
I don’t even like Meghan, nor do I consider her black, but when someone is hurting, especially to the point where they want to end their life, you don’t tell them that their problems don’t matter because someone else has it worse. There will always be someone who has it worse, and if using that as a way to invalidate people’s feelings that could also be applied to anyone on the west, to anyone with Wi-Fi, to anyone with food, and running water. We all have some sort of privilege whether it is socioeconomic, because of our ethnicity, because of our nationality, etc. and none of that will ensure that we will never suffer.
Thank you!
i liked this video but then unliked it. i agree with you. it's so valid to voice pain, especially pain that is generational, traumatic, and so unforgiving that it has become accepted as reality. but, i think that this conversation is important. from a white cis guy's perspective, this is the type of thing that both wakes white people up and makes many people of color feel validated, and I think that those things can both be positive. it is fine to not have sympathy for meghan, but yeah, i don't think we should be calling her the fool. she doesn't deserve that or the treatment she has gotten.
@@dillon5670 Yes! Sharing experiences and helping other people see how those things affect us can help star a dialog and start making changes. As you said, it’s ok not to sympathize with her. But ridiculing her for what she went through and saying it’s ok for her to go through that because she is light and she has money is not ok at all. Policing who can and who can’t share experiences only creates more division and resentment.
I liked this channel at first until this video all the judging on this woman for who she is and her journey is crazy made me think about the video she made about the nasty things people said about her and her hair and how it made her cry then she come with this video downing this woman basically for not being dark enough to be black and understand racism.Im unsubscribed.disappointing to see and hear black women light or dark put each other down and degrade one another.
Beautifully said
I love your nigerian accent ❤️❤️ looking forward to your next upload
I guess I wasn’t the only one saying this I see everyone at work talking about how bad they feel for her and I say I don’t give a shit about her because she know what she was getting herself into
Girl you nailed it with this video.
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she is so white passing at first I thought she was kite's sister. Also I dont understand some black women go crazy about her. She has clearly stated before that she is not ^black^ but she is ¨biracial¨ at the same time so many biracial people in the U.S refer to themselves as black.
Internalized colorism within Black women. Their obsession with biracial women with Black heritage is a disease
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I co-sign this 💯 percent!!!! THANK YOU
Let's be real she benefited from colorism and anti-blackness pushed her away from the Royal family 🤷🏾♀️
Anti-blackness or nonconforming. She didn't want to do royal duties and follow royal protocols. I don't buy her racism claims for one bit.
@@MsBahbii yep
The logic comparison was hilarious but true
Nothing but toxicity here. Bye! 👋🏽
No, what's toxic is the global empire of capitalism and racism that the British family has built on the backs of POC, and Meghan choosing to very intentionally marry into that. What was so toxic said in this video?