{"id":59389,"date":"2020-01-22T00:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=59389"},"modified":"2020-01-22T00:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T00:58:24","slug":"why-harry-and-meghans-megxit-is-a-crossroads-for-the-uk-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=59389","title":{"rendered":"Why Harry and Meghan\u2019s \u2018Megxit\u2019 is a crossroads for the UK on race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Harry and Meghan\u2019s \u2018Megxit\u2019 is a crossroads for the UK on race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

PBS NewsHour<\/a>
\n2020-01-20<\/p>\n

Courtney Vinopal<\/strong><\/a>, Digital Reporter<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

When Prince Harry<\/a> and Meghan<\/a>, the duke and duchess of Sussex, first announced that they intended to \u201cstep back\u201d from their duties as \u201csenior UK royals<\/a>,\u201d palace officials were reportedly taken aback<\/a> by the decision.<\/p>\n

But it came as no surprise to close watchers of the young royals \u2014 particularly among the United Kingdom\u2019s<\/a> communities of color \u2014 that the couple made the historic decision to renounce their \u201cRoyal Highness\u201d titles and spend most of their time in North America<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMinority communities expected this to some degree,\u201d said Nels Abbey<\/a>, a London<\/a>-based media executive and author of the novel \u201cThink Like a White Man<\/a>.\u201d With \u201cthe level of hostility and racism that Meghan has been on the receiving end of, it\u2019s no surprise that she\u2019s chosen to leave,\u201d he added…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMinority communities expected this to some degree,\u201d said Nels Abbey, a London-based media executive and author of the novel \u201cThink Like a White Man.\u201d With \u201cthe level of hostility and racism that Meghan has been on the receiving end of, it\u2019s no surprise that she\u2019s chosen to leave,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,10],"tags":[11657,30607,30606,30604,30609,30605,20717,28628,6107,19266,28692,6108,9692,30608,30610],"class_list":["post-59389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-afua-hirsch","tag-anne-elisabeth-moutet","tag-arianne-chernock","tag-courtney-vinopal","tag-gayle-king","tag-jenne-osterheldt","tag-meghan-markle","tag-nels-abbey","tag-pbs","tag-pbs-newshour","tag-prince-harry-duke-of-sussex","tag-public-broadcasting-service","tag-sarah-gaither","tag-sierra-sangetti-daniels","tag-tony-dokoupil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59390,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59389\/revisions\/59390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}