The right wing press has been full of criticisms of Meghan Markle after her revelation of racism in Buckingham Palace.
The Daily Mail protest that their vicious attacks on Meghan Markle have nothing to do with racism. They are forgetting their own history and their most famous headline "Hurrah for the Blackshirts". They do not have impeccable anti-racist credentials. To this day they repeatedly portray asylum seekers as a threat to Britain.
Racism from the Royals is nothing new.
Prince Philip has a long record of racist jokes, talking about "slitty eyed" Chinese and "workshy" Indians; complaining that Caribbean music can make you deaf and all Scots are drunkards. And these are only his comments in public.
The Queen and Prince Philip have been exonerated by the media but the repeated jibes about Meghan Markle's race came from somewhere in the palace and it is not likely that a minion would have been making such remarks without instructions to do so.
The BBC is either being naive or disingenuous in saying the Palace has been "silent". Thousands of pages of venom including a two-year-old allegation of bullying are coming from somewhere and it is unlikely they dropped from the sky.
The attack on Meghan Markle is being used as a means of stirring up race hatred. The fate of the ex-royals is not a matter of concern to Socialists. The racist "dog whistle" outpourings of the media are.
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