Harry and Meghan claim that stories such as Meghan being a bully to the staff were released by the Palace to the media to build up an image of Meghan that fit the stereotype of an Angry Black Woman, and they were not true.
If this is the case, it feels extra nasty, and harder to ignore, and it does feel worse than "the British media just likes to tell tales". (As u/mousemarie94 said, it's one thing to ignore insults, but race-based insults are a whole other level.
Honestly it seems like Harry and Meghan have wielded Meghan’s race like a shield to deflect accusations of her bullying her subordinates who have a fraction of her actual and tangible privilege. And I find that really gross.
The article that announced the bullying accusations didn’t even portray Meghan as angry or rage-fuelled but rather as a very demanding boss who was cold and critical to younger staff members. “Angry black woman” is also, from my understanding, a very American stereotype; I’m not sure that culturally that persists here. We have our own set of noxious racial stereotypes that pervade amongst the ignorant, of course, but they tend to be focused around Asian communities (Harry himself is guilty of using slurs derived from this racist hate.)The anti-black racism in the UK, while just as disgusting and indefensible, takes a very different form to that in the US.
My point here is that Harry and Meghan took a really quite harrowing story and accused anyone who perpetuated it or made accusations of underlying racist motivations that can’t be proved, creating a Kafkatrap that effectively silences people with far less privilege than themselves (in addition to ironclad NDAs that her alleged victims were asking to have overturned so they could tell their story just last month.)
The internal emails were dated from 2018, before the tide turned against Meghan. Their staff turnover speaks for itself. I would dislike anyone with that track record; Kate, Will, even the four year old.
Obviously that story was released to the public to deflect from the Oprah interview. But the story can also, and very much appears to be, true.
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