Placed another way, I don’t plan to watch the new Netflix Series.
The way I see it, May 19, 2018 marks the day Meghan Markle married into one of the world’s oldest crime families.
This is a family who is carrying centuries of gun running, human trafficking, colonialism, mass property theft, murder, and instigation of international armed conflicts in its history.
So guess who wasn’t sharing #BlackGirlMagic social media posts after hearing Markle was marrying into a family of royals?
I tried to find some of those BGM tweets but I think the original authors wised up and deleted them. Here’s a Pop Sugar article that tried to round up a sample of those celebrations back then.
Nothing should be magical, or otherwise pleasant, about human trafficking, colonialism …
And guess who wasn’t surprised about how Markle was treated by Prince Harry’s family?
Some you apparently forgot that a family with histories of human trafficking, colonialism, et al. — that have been focused on people of color during the family’s latter-day colonial phase — could have an eff-the-colonies mentality when they see Ms. Markle.
I’m not (obviously) endorsing the biased treatment Ms. Markle received, which will be a focus of the upcoming Harry and Meghan Netflix documentary series.
But global gangstas are still gangstas. What did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex expect?
Can we get a documentary series about this global crime family’s exploits?
Nor sufficiently magical for the mainstream imagination, I suppose …
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