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Ethics Of A Collective Good
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In 2021 when Meghan Markle and Prince Harry had an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the couple shined a light on the racism in the British royal family by talking about the racism that some family members allegedly had towards their son, Archie.
The royal family tried to play down the claim — with the queen (RIP) choosing to treat it as a “private” family matter. This was in contrast to how the royal family treated the bullying claims against Meghan Markle.
In the bullying case, the royal family chose to publicly condemn bullying and open an investigation into the claims. You can read more here.
The treatment of both incidences had a lot of people asking the royal family to make a public condemnation of racism as well.
The Labor MP at the time Bell Ribeiro-Addy said;
“There should be a public condemnation of racism. They did it with bullying, why not do it with racism?”
To say that the royal family didn’t do what people like Bell asked would be false ~ but they also did not give a satisfactory condemnation of racism choosing to skirt it with some short, light criticism.
