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Palace Racism
Ngozi Fulani was asked where she was originally from mmm, whats the problem there
it's not what or was considered a british christian name, i assume the palace get people from around the globe visiting, so why the big hoo haa.
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it's not what or was considered a british christian name, i assume the palace get people from around the globe visiting, so why the big hoo haa.
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I think that the lady was asking where her family originated from. I think that is a genuine question, maybe not the time nor the place but it is hardly a major issue.
17:51 Wed 30th Nov 2022
Barsel - // Andy, lady Hussey might have come across as being offensive, but not racist. That is a completely different thing. //
I don;t think there is any 'might have ... ' about it!!
But if you read back through any of my posts on this thread, and there are plenty to choose from, you will see that I have never ever referred to Lady Hussey as 'racist' - that is something you have made up from nothing I actually said.
I don;t think there is any 'might have ... ' about it!!
But if you read back through any of my posts on this thread, and there are plenty to choose from, you will see that I have never ever referred to Lady Hussey as 'racist' - that is something you have made up from nothing I actually said.
drmorgans - // Ms Fulani didn't understand the line of questioning. //
It only becomes a 'line of questioning' when someone asks you where you come from, you tell them, they patently don't believe you, and then they offensively interrogate you, until they tell you where they would like you to have come from, and where they think you ought to have come from, based on your skin colour, even though you didn't.
It only becomes a 'line of questioning' when someone asks you where you come from, you tell them, they patently don't believe you, and then they offensively interrogate you, until they tell you where they would like you to have come from, and where they think you ought to have come from, based on your skin colour, even though you didn't.
drmorgans - // Puzzling why Duke Hussey's widow persisted. //
Really? It doesn't puzzle me in the slightest!
Ms Fulani came up against a woman born into wealth and privilege who has spent her entire adult life as a companion to her late Majesty, and learned absolutely nothing of that lady's wisdom, tolerance and courtesy.
Lady Hussey made an assumption about Ms Fulani's ethnicity based on her skin colour and dress code, and having been disavowed of that bigoted preconception, she then proceeded to re-enforce it until she finally talked herself into a solution that she could live with.
She decided that Ms Fulani was from The Caribbean, and advised her as such, as though she had solved a particularly difficult puzzle.
The puzzle being, how to deal with a recalcitrant foreigner who will simply not admit her ethnic origins, when it is clear that, as she is black, she must be a descendant of slaves, via Africa, to the Caribbean, and she advised Ms Fulani accordingly.
Now you may think that her rude persistence in reaching this entirely wrong conclusion was 'puzzling' - but it's perfectly clear to me.
Daughters of The Empire understand the class system.
You are either part of the Empire, or you are some 'other', and Lady Hussey needed to get Ms Fulani's position in the pecking order sorted to her own satisfaction.
And she did so, even if it meant making up an offensive and incorrect assumption to do so.
Really? It doesn't puzzle me in the slightest!
Ms Fulani came up against a woman born into wealth and privilege who has spent her entire adult life as a companion to her late Majesty, and learned absolutely nothing of that lady's wisdom, tolerance and courtesy.
Lady Hussey made an assumption about Ms Fulani's ethnicity based on her skin colour and dress code, and having been disavowed of that bigoted preconception, she then proceeded to re-enforce it until she finally talked herself into a solution that she could live with.
She decided that Ms Fulani was from The Caribbean, and advised her as such, as though she had solved a particularly difficult puzzle.
The puzzle being, how to deal with a recalcitrant foreigner who will simply not admit her ethnic origins, when it is clear that, as she is black, she must be a descendant of slaves, via Africa, to the Caribbean, and she advised Ms Fulani accordingly.
Now you may think that her rude persistence in reaching this entirely wrong conclusion was 'puzzling' - but it's perfectly clear to me.
Daughters of The Empire understand the class system.
You are either part of the Empire, or you are some 'other', and Lady Hussey needed to get Ms Fulani's position in the pecking order sorted to her own satisfaction.
And she did so, even if it meant making up an offensive and incorrect assumption to do so.
AH, you have not a shred of evidence for any of that appalling character assassination - not the first from you. Your inaccurate notions of a world of which you are ignorant, fuelled by your ever-present inverted snobbery, are getting the better of you again.
Bored with, and actually quite sickened by, the manufactured tripe you’re spouting, until something more conducive to mature discussion is posted I have no more to say on this subject.
Bored with, and actually quite sickened by, the manufactured tripe you’re spouting, until something more conducive to mature discussion is posted I have no more to say on this subject.
naomi - // Bored with, and actually quite sickened by, the manufactured tripe you’re spouting, until something more conducive to mature discussion is posted I have no more to say on this subject. //
The day's not entirely wasted then!!
Interesting how you cherry-pick twaddle from Twitter and elsewhere to do down the character of a stranger, but you get particularly pompously teed off when someone else does exactly the same thing.
The difference is - I compiled my 'character assassination' based on what I have read and heard.
You have done exactly the same, with far more frequency and venom, because you have taken against a complete stranger because she dared to speak up for herself.
If you don't like people forming opinions of strangers based on media reports, then try not doing it yourself.
The day's not entirely wasted then!!
Interesting how you cherry-pick twaddle from Twitter and elsewhere to do down the character of a stranger, but you get particularly pompously teed off when someone else does exactly the same thing.
The difference is - I compiled my 'character assassination' based on what I have read and heard.
You have done exactly the same, with far more frequency and venom, because you have taken against a complete stranger because she dared to speak up for herself.
If you don't like people forming opinions of strangers based on media reports, then try not doing it yourself.
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Re photographs for the "trailer" I have read that Netflix might have made an error in using file photos and not ascertaining when they were taken. One purports to have been taken of The Queen Mother and one at a Harry Potter film preview taken 5 years before Harry met Meghan.
What I also found odd was that the lady in question had her name card covered by her hair. Surely names should be visible to all
What I also found odd was that the lady in question had her name card covered by her hair. Surely names should be visible to all
