Recently I found out that remarks I had made about the Duchess of Sussex were the subject of debate on talk radio. I had pointed out to Piers Morgan, who finds it hard to leave the topic alone, that Meghan had to “learn” what it was like to be black in our society. She herself claimed that she had never been treated as a black person before coming to the UK. Her own mother said in a documentary that she regretted never having talked to Meghan about race. The discussion branded me a racist — yet the programme’s producers didn’t invite me to explain my views.
This is where we have come to: when a person of colour finds themselves, in effect, cancelled for being sympathetic to another person of colour. Of course, we all know someone who, if we had the power to wave a magic wand, we’d happily mute forever. Your target could be a politician or a journalist like Piers Morgan or — heaven forfend — you may even want Trevor Phillips to cease pontificating on the telly.
