Meghan Markle’s “race” doesn’t have anything to do with the way the British press and the “white” side of her family is reacting to her? Who’s kidding who?

There is that old adage “With friends like these, who needs enemies?” That is certainly happening within the Democratic Party; while Vanity Fair’s Peter Hamby tells the anti-Bernie Sanders’ “bed-wetters” to “get a grip” and recognize that his campaign organization is best situated to beat Donald Trump at his own game, media outlets like Politico are busy spreading around the latest anti-Sanders conspiracy theories and how unlikeable characters (Hillary Clinton and her “posse”) claim that “nobody likes him.” That kind of thing can also happen within one’s own family, like that of Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who makes $33+ million a year, and has an estranged relationship with his family; that includes with his brother Jordan, who amusingly asserts that he didn’t get on “The Bachelorette” because  he is, uh, related to a famous sibling. 

And then there is the feud between Meghan Markle and the British tabloid press, and the “white” side of her family.  Now, like most Americans, I am not “obsessed” by the goings on in the British royal family, but I am “obsessed” with hypocrisy. In regard to the British media, self-important blowhards like Piers Morgan is certainly obsessed with Meghan, in fact this clown cannot get out of his own way being in a constant state of outrage about how this American “outsider” has come to turn the sanctity of British blue-blood “red.” Does it having anything to do with her “black” side? He is “outraged” by even the insinuation; whatever you say, you jerk. In response to “Megxit”—which implies that Meghan is solely the responsible party—he wrote in the Daily Mail that “the Queen must FIRE Their Royal Hustlers: Deluded Meghan and Harry should be stripped of their titles before this pair of grasping, selfish, scheming Kardashian-wannabes bring down the Monarchy.” Of course, some of us remember that Morgan has appeared on certain American television programming that suggests that he has a more apt claim to being such a “wannabe.”

The problem with statements like this is that Morgan has been saying these kinds of things incessantly for the past few years; some have pointed out that this is “personal,” since after meeting him in person, Meghan hasn’t been responding to his missives. Like a lot of people who don’t understand issues of race in this country, Morgan doesn’t seem to “get” that when a white person is clearly obsessed in an unfairly mean-spirited way with a person who happens to not be “white,” there must be a reason for it. I mean, we know that Stephen Miller’s “issue” with Hispanics in this country is about his racism because the evidence of his racial obsessions are right there to ponder in those emails with Breitbart.

Meghan Markle obviously was not prepared for the juvenilia of the British tabloids, but as a report on the UK website Boredpanda pointed out, the hypocrisy of the British press suggests that there is a racial angle. Take these examples between the difference in the reporting on Kate Middleton and Meghan on similar subjects: “Kate tenderly cradles her baby bump” and “Why can’t Meghan Markle keep her hands off her bump?”—both stories from the Daily Mail.  From the Express: “Step too far. Meghan Markle slammed for putting hands in pocket” next to a photo of the queen with her hands in her pockets. Another from the Express: “Kate’s morning sickness cure? Prince William gifted with an avocado for pregnant Duchess” and “Meghan Markle’s beloved avocado linked to human rights abuse and drought, millennial shame.” Sarah Vine of the Daily Mail: “How Kate went from drab to fab!” and “My memo to Meghan Markle following her Vogue editorial: we Brits prefer true royalty to fashion royalty.” InStyle even got into the hypocrisy business, praising Middleton’s “versatile” summer shoes, while complaining that Meghan broke “royal protocol at the beach” with her shoes. There are a dozen more examples, but you get the picture. 

And “race” doesn’t have anything to do with it. Yeah, sure.

And then of course there is the “white” side of Meghan Markle’s family, who she apparently has not had much of a relationship with for some time. Her father, Thomas Markle, and her mother Doria Ragland were divorced when she was six-years-old. She has no other siblings from that side of the family. Her father had two children from a previous marriage, Samantha Grant and Thomas Markle, Jr. The senior Markle later won a California state lottery of about $750,000 and moved to Mexico to live like a king, except that now he is reportedly $30,000 in debt and has filed for bankruptcy. One wonders if Markle—and his white children from his first marriage—were expecting some kind of fame and fortune for being “related” to a member of the family married into the British royal family. Maybe they are disturbed that they are still, well, nobodies but embarrassing fodder for the British press. 

Now, I’m not going to go into the petty details, because “petty” is exactly what they are. It seems that there is a lot of bad blood between Meghan and the “white” side of her family. Meghan and Samantha were supposedly “close” when they were “little,” but grew apart as they got older. In this society is that a “shock”? Blonde white teenager doesn’t want her image sullied with her white friends because she has a “black” sister. Then all of sudden when that “black” sister becomes successful, the white sister complains because her “black” sister doesn’t “know” her anymore. You know what it is: when you are successful, all of sudden these “friends” come out of the woodwork looking for recognition and expecting gratuities, and when they are rebuffed, they whine and moan about how the family member they in the past didn’t “know” is acting as if she doesn’t know them now. 

I’m sure there are more than a few celebrity types who didn’t have good relations with family members, who once they become “famous” are suddenly expected to outwardly show their love and affection when they weren’t “feeling it” before they became celebrities with money. The British tabloid press will have “fun” embarrassing Meghan with stories about the loser white-side of her family, but if I were her, I would just ignore everything the press has to say or write, because they are losers too.