{"id":60656,"date":"2021-03-12T23:55:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60656"},"modified":"2021-03-12T23:56:59","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T23:56:59","slug":"meghan-markle-the-royal-family-right-wing-media-animus-and-the-specter-of-deeply-entrenched-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60656","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle, The Royal Family, Right Wing Media Animus and The Specter of Deeply Entrenched Racism!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meghan Markle, The Royal Family, Right Wing Media Animus and The Specter of Deeply Entrenched Racism!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Medium<\/a>
\n2021-03-11<\/p>\n

Elwood Watson, Ph.D.<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of African American and Gender Studies, Post-WWII U.S. History
\nEast Tennessee State University<\/em><\/p>\n

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It didn\u2019t take long for the right-wing media, here in America<\/a> and in Britain<\/a>, to gin up their propaganda\/outrage machine towards Meghan Markle<\/a>, better known as The Duchess of Sussex. \u201cUnreasonable,\u201d \u201centitled,\u201d \u201cungrateful,\u201d \u201cspoiled,\u201d \u201cLiar! Fake Outrage!\u201d \u201cFights, Camera, Action,\u201d \u201cMegxile,\u201d \u201cSo Who is The Royal Racist?\u201d and so on. Hell, perennial Meghan Markle antagonist and fierce critic, Piers Morgan<\/a>, literally screamed and stomped off of the set<\/a> of the program Good Morning Britain<\/em><\/a>. It was a meltdown of epic proportions for all to see.<\/p>\n

They were savvy enough not to refer to her as \u201cuppity,\u201d 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 \u201cdoing their own thing on their own terms\u201d and, in essence, by telling such Whites to \u201cGo to hell!\u201d Some in the right-wing media would have liked to have called her a \u201cn*gger bitch,\u201d though they know that would have resulted in some consequences, even in our current climate of over racial animus…<\/p>\n

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

To her credit, the former actress, now duchess, has refused to buckle under pressure from the royal family, scurrilous British tabloids, the intensely bigoted right-wing American media and has made it clear that she intends to call things as she sees them and will not be bullied or cowed into submission or silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8413,8,10,20],"tags":[17463,18537,20717,24044],"class_list":["post-60656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-communications","category-media-archive","category-uk","category-usa","tag-elwood-watson","tag-medium","tag-meghan-markle","tag-piers-morgan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656","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=60656"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60658,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60656\/revisions\/60658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}