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An angry charge of racism has been leveled at the British royal family. It started when a black British citizen, Ngosi Fulani, attended a tea party at Buckingham Palace dressed in full African regalia. 83-year-old Lady Susan Hussey, who served as lady-in-waiting to the late queen for 60 years and was godmother to Prince William, was introduced to Fulani and, intrigued by Fulani’s unusual outfit, asked the one question that drives liberals crazy: “Where are you from?”
Alarms went off all over London, Lady Susan was thrown under the bus by the King and the Prince of Wales, and the palace made every effort short of calling out the Royal Marines to avoid the charge of racism.
The challenging question (from Sky News Australia) is this: “Whether Ngosi Fulani has done us all a tough but necessary favor by smoking out the possible latent racism at the palace or has she caused a great deal of damage to the monarchy and has she ruined an elderly lady’s life after half a century of service?” Was it an elderly lady not meaning any offense or was it something more serious? Was Fulani denied her nationality, as she claims, or was she simply being chatted up by a friendly partygoer?
“This is about institutional racism,” said one irate black woman who espoused the Critical Race Theory approach to race relations—that all white people are inherently racist. For this woman, Lady Susan’s question proves the existence of systemic racism at the palace. If you accept the CRT argument, then asking, “Where are you from,” is clearly racist. The fault in the argument is that when you convict all white people of racism simply by virtue of their skin color, you yourself are undeniably racist.
The opposite point-of-view was expressed by Dai Davies, former head of royal protection at Scotland Yard. “It has been blown entirely out of proportion,” Davies argued. “The media has gone berserk. I have concern that this may have been pre-planned. This lady has on a number of occasions made allegations against the royal family. So I wonder what is going on.”
“Where are you from” is a question that members of the royal family traditionally ask of people, Davies said, particularly if they come to a reception dressed in a leopard skin. When Fulani showed up at the palace in her provocative outfit, she invited the question. “Fulani planned this right from the very start,” said Nigel Farage, British broadcaster and former politician. “She is an anti-royal, anti-British Marxist, and it’s quite wrong what has happened. Hussey did nothing more than try to make small talk, polite conversation at a cocktail party.”
Calling someone a racist without proof is now part of the liberal playbook in America and the U.K. Welcome to the Left’s new rule for establishing culpability: a mere allegation of wrongdoing is sufficient to convict. It brings up the old story of “cry wolf,” defined by the Cambridge English Dictionary as implying that, “If you cry wolf too often, people will stop believing you.” Thanks to its overuse, the accusation of “racist” has become an example of crying wolf. “The word ‘racism’ is like ketchup,” said black economist Thomas Sowell. “It can be put on practically everything—and demanding evidence makes you a racist.” If you are white, you are guilty of racism until proven innocent. Sadly, no attempt was made to prove Lady Susan’s innocence and she was forced to resign her position with the royal family after six decades of faithful service to the monarchy.
Glorification by the media of Black Lives Matter—a criminal, Marxist organization—has given a small but vocal cadre of mentally unbalanced individuals in the black community the license to cry “white supremacy” and “systemic racism” every time they feel the need to experience a tantrum. This explains Ngosi Fulani’s reaction to what occurred at Buckingham Palace. Fulani’s behavior suggests that she was looking for a chance to be perceived as a victim. “The goal of identity politics is to tell black people that we are victims,” said black radio host Larry Elder, “that discrimination and racism remain major problems when in fact they don’t.” Blaming the problems of the black community on white racism, says black author Shelby Steele, is patently false.
Race baiters like Fulani are able to get away with baseless accusations of racism because so many white people are willing to go along with it. Their reasons include white guilt and the desire to virtue signal—these people want to show that they are better than everyone else. By convicting Hussey of racism, the royal family has given us an unfortunate example of this trend.
Ed Brodow is a conservative political commentator and author of nine books including his new
#1 Amazon Best Seller, AMERICA ON ITS KNEES: The Cost of Replacing Trump with Biden. His
website is www.edbrodowpolitics.com.
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