Meghan of Sussex Has the Girlies Mad

Admittedly, I did not watch With Love, Meghan, a new lifestyle show starring the former Duchess on Netflix. However, I don’t need to watch it to know that racism doesn’t need a show to be featured, and that most of the hate is not because they don’t like the show, but that they don’t like that she has one. In fact, since she came on the scene as Harry’s girlfriend, she and the world have not known peace but when you challenge the tenets of hundreds of years of imperialism, just by your existence, there is bound to be an uproar. 

Grace Kelly, the princess of Monaco, was an American movie star, and was widely embraced by the people of Monaco—Meghan has not had the same response.

British tabloids are notorious for their overzealous coverage of the royal family, down to the tragic death of Princess Diana, Meghan’s posthumous mother-in-law, but Meghan’s scrutiny seems to have become a new treasured pastime—especially in Great Britain. No country did imperialism and colonization the way Great Britain did. Knocking down people’s doors and customs was customary for the empire. Additionally, religion, imperialism and European monarchies have always gone hand in hand.

When Christianity took hold in Europe, it morphed into a message that spreading the gospel meant you could steal sh*t and rape those whom you perceived as a lesser version of human, because, well, God ordained it.

Even though God loved his children equally, I guess that still didn’t mean that his children were equal in his eyes. Europeans did not just consider themselves superior, but the way to tame and save the souls of savages was to give them the good book and take their land, and you know, “manage” it for them. More importantly, this was what God not just wanted, but demanded of his superior race.

European monarchs were ordained by God to rule, according to them, which meant that even the ones with chins longer than the amount of time inbreeding went on in their families, were thought to be the physical embodiment of white supremacy, and that viewpoint has not changed much since. Their desire to maintain the utmost superiority—even over their own people—was so ardent that incest was a drug of choice for people who were already drunk on power. Their maintenance of perceived purity is also evident in how we view biracialness, to this day. The one drop rule is something people actively still use to gauge the Blackness of certain people.

According to this rule, one drop of Blackness means someone is Black, but one drop of whiteness does not a white make.

Both Meghan and Harry reported that a family member was concerned about the possible color of their son, Archie’s, skin, which is wild coming from a family that has f*cked Black people all over the world, without a second thought. European monarchs are much more culturally relevant than politically, to this day, but why if they serve no real function other than a country’s glorified mascot? It is because they uphold the beauty of whiteness, and most importantly, the purity of it, no matter how much cruelty others had to endure by its hands. Some will say that Meghan Sussex receives so much hate because she reportedly was mean to staff, or that she was too nice at Ulvade. Still, that is the point, she doesn’t have to do anything but exist to receive vitriol. Sure, she is not the first monarch, or former monarch to receive media scrutiny, but is it more than Prince Andrew, who was accused of having sex with several underage girls and was friends with Epstein? No. It is not. Because the heinousness of his crimes only invalidated the purity of his victims, and not white supremacy. 

People are hate-watching Meghan’s show, and you have to wonder how pathetic of an existence must one possess to watch hours of someone they don’t like.

TikTok user CuntyChanel, a blonde woman with blue eyes, breaks down how much of the Meghan hate is “white woman main character syndrome,” stemming from the belief that Meghan took something from them. They don’t believe that a Black woman should not be living a better life than them.

Not only has Meghan tainted the purity of the most supreme whites, but she, the descendant of the colonized, is living better than millions of colonizers, and that’s what they hate the most about With Love, Meghan.