Meghan Markle spoke about the murder of George Floyd and spoke about racism in his life
'04.06.2020'
Source: Spletnik
Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle broke her silence about the protests that swept the United States, writes Spletnik.
Meghan Markle spoke about her attitude to the riots that swept the United States after her death due to police abuse by 46-year-old African American George Floyd in Minneapolis. Duchess of Sussex, based in Los Angeles, whose mother is black and her father is white, spoke to graduates of Pure Hearts High School, which she once graduated from, and explained why she remained silent for 10 days since America stirred up this is not the first death of a black man at the hands of the police.
In a 6-minute video recorded by Megan, she admitted that she did not know for a long time what to say to high school students graduating from school in 2020 - especially in view of the heartbreaking events taking place now in the USA and her native Los Angeles.
“I did not understand what I could tell you. I wanted to say something right, and was worried that I couldn’t or that they would criticize me for it. And then I realized that the only thing wrong in this situation is to say nothing, ”Meghan Markle explained.
With a reference to the #BlackLivesMatter movement (#Lives of the Blacks Important), the Duchess of Sussex recalled that George Floyd was not the first victim of police arbitrariness in the United States.
“And the life of George Floyd was important, and the life of Breonne Taylor was important, and the life of Filando Castile was important, and the life of Tamir Rice was important,” Meghan Markle listed several black people who died at the hands of police over the past few years. She added that there are many, many more whose names are known and not who were killed by law enforcement officers.
Meghan Markle told today's 18-year-old Americans that she had once witnessed racial riots - they swept Los Angeles in 1992 after a jury acquitted several police officers who had brutally beaten a black American Rodney King.
“I was 11 or 12 years old, I just entered the Pure Hearts school when a riot occurred in Los Angeles, also provoked by an insensitive manifestation of racism,” the actress recalled. “I remember the curfew.” I remember running home and saw ashes falling from the sky along the way. Around it smelled of burning, I saw how smoke rose above the buildings, and people ran out of the houses with bags and looted. "
“I'm sorry that you have to live in a world where it still exists,” Meghan Markle complained to the graduates.
However, she added that she remembers how people rallied in Los Angeles in 1992, when performances lasted 6 days, according to the Duchess of Sussex, this is happening in the United States now.
“I know that this is not the graduation that you imagined,” Megan said. And she invited the children to learn from what was happening in order to revise their values, evaluate their knowledge and skills - and now put them to use.
“Now you must take part in restoring peace,” Meghan Markle inspired the children. Although she added that she understands that it has to be restored constantly.
The clip, recorded by Meghan Markle for graduates of the school where she studied from 11 to 18 years old, was later posted on the website of the magazine for African-American women Essence.
In the wake of racial unrest in the United States, the 2012 video appeared in the press, in which Meghan Markle discusses racism, writes Gazeta.ru. She admits that many people do not perceive her as a woman of mixed race, however, she was pained to hear her mother, Doria Ragland, “once called with the word“ H ”.
Dressed in a T-shirt with the name of the project, Meghan Markle says in the video that because of her appearance, many people do not understand that Megan is a representative of the mixed race.
“Most people don’t understand what origin I am, so most of my life I felt like a fly on the wall. The insulting words that I heard, really insulting jokes or names hit me hard, and a couple of years ago I heard my mother was called with the letter “H”, then the star of the series “Force Majeure” complained.
The actress explains that while living in Los Angeles, she did not encounter manifestations of racism - she met this phenomenon when she began to travel outside California.
“It opened my eyes to the fact that such a mentality still exists, although I thought it remained in the days when my grandfather moved our family from Cleveland to Los Angeles. They drove through the whole country, and stopping to buy food, wherever they were, they had to go to groceries from the back, ”Megan told about the story of her family. “You know, I thought it was a closed story of the past, but it turned out that no.”
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In conclusion, Meghan Markle said she was proud of her descent on both sides - and the family of a black mother, Doria Ragland, and the family of a white father, Thomas Markle. She expressed hope that by the time she has children, people will be more open and understand that the mixture of people of different races brings beauty and diversity to the world.
Recall that in November 2016, Kensington Palace - the residence of Prince Harry at that time - issued an official statement condemning the latent racist tone in which the new girlfriend of the grandson of Elizabeth II was discussed in the UK.
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“His girlfriend, Meghan Markle, was the subject of a wave of insults and attacks,” the palace said in a statement. “Some of them were made very publicly - these are headlines on the covers of national newspapers, racist connotations of comments and outright sexism and racism of trolls in social networks,” said a statement from representatives of Prince Harry.
It was precisely the flood of press attacks that, as a result, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle called the reason for their decision to abandon royal duties and leave the UK - after which they severed their relations with the British press.
