Meghan Markle, The Royal Family, Right Wing Media Animus and The Specter of Deeply Entrenched Racism!
It didn’t take long for the right-wing media, here in America and in Britain, to gin up their propaganda/outrage machine towards Meghan Markle, better known as The Duchess of Sussex. “Unreasonable,” “entitled,” “ungrateful,” “spoiled,” “Liar! Fake Outrage!” “Fights, Camera, Action,” “Megxile,” “So Who is The Royal Racist?” and so on. Tucker Carlson, Ben Shapiro, Brian Kilmeade and other right wing darlings and the usual suspects readily weighed in on the drama. Hell, perennial Meghan Markle antagonist and fierce critic, Piers Morgan, literally screamed and stomped off of the sethttps://medium.com/the-polis/meghan-markle-the-royal-family-right-wing-media-animus-and-the-specter-of-deeply-entrenched-38e829ba3bd9?sk=33ae6dfbb8a6aa27e113da80abb08889 (https://youtu.be/sG9rX6Ifzhw) of the program Good Morning Britain. It was a meltdown of epic proportions for all to see.
They were savvy enough not to refer to her as “uppity,” a word reserved for Black people who anger racist, White people by taking them out of their comfort zones. These are the Black folks who upset White bigots by “doing their own thing on their own terms” and, in essence, by telling such Whites to “Go to hell!” Some in the right-wing media would have liked to have called her a “n*gger bitch,” though they know…
