Yes, the Royal Family is white. So what?
The leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is awfully Han Chinese. The Indian cabinet, too, appears to be horrifically full of ethnic Indians. The Japanese Imperial Family? Horribly Japanese. Same goes for the House of Saud too – frightfully Saudi.
It is a quirk of language that we often use words with a negative connotation as synonyms for ‘very’. They are, however, always followed by a suitable positive adjective when its intention to emphasise something good - think ‘awfully delicious’
When they are followed, however, by a negative, their effect is to emphasise something’s undesirability. Think ‘horrifically cruel’ or ‘frightfully evil’.
What, does my kind reader think most people in the public eye intend when they utter the word ‘white’?
It is a word forever suffixed with a negative. White privilege, for example, or white tears. Indeed, anyone daring to write something vaguely positive about white people is setting themselves up for social ostracism and a speedy descent beneath the waves of public acceptability.
Even AI doesn’t rate whiteness much, no doubt a reflection of the worldviews of those in charge of such projects:
Such thoughts are inspired by Andjoa Andoh’s comments at the Coronation; one of the most significant possible moments of our country’s ancient monarchy. She stated that the day had ‘gone from the rich diversity of the Abbey to a terribly white balcony.’
One must assume that ‘terribly’ serves purely to enhance the negativity of ‘white’, unless I am fully misreading her.
Whether such whiteness is a criticism preserved for just the Royal Family (despite the presence of non-white Royals) or whether it is a broader indictment on the notion that white families exist at all is unclear. Yet the implied impermissibility of a white Royal Family in the United Kingdom – one of European civilisation’s most significant nations – is clear.
This is, of course, something reserved purely for European and New World states. That the Thai monarchy is Thai and the Omani is Omani is taken as axiomatic.
The actress’ undignified comment is merely another instance in the continual slighting of Caucasians – the only ethnic group for whom it is societally encouraged to demean. After all, Oxbridge professors can state ‘white lives don’t matter’ and face no consequences whatsoever. If moving in the ‘right’ circles, to debase ones own skin colour (if white) is encouraged and for others to associated evil to pale skin de rigueur.
Given that our society has been railroaded into a grand experiment whereby our demographics are changed beyond recognition within the space of one lifetime (with, for example, only 21.5% of inner London school children being classed as ‘white British’), to assume that there are no longer term risks of this vilifying of the majority group is, I suspect, naïve.
Everyone is terrified of touching this topic, knowing correctly that to broach it renders you a social pariah. Yet to continue down the current path out of nothing else but cowardice will result in something far worse.
What I find bizarre is that Brits with Indian or African ancestry make up 3% of the population. Let me repeat that - THREE PERCENT ARE WHAT IS NOW CALLED BLACK EVEN IF THAT FIGURE IS 19% IN LONDON. Across the United Kingdom, 97% of citizens are Anglo-European, otherwise known as White.
This 'black'group is appallingly over-represented in film, television, theatre, the media, publishing and many other fields. WHY? They are a trivial minority and should not be represented as they so often are, as making 50% or more of British society and culture.
We now have the insanity of Jane Austen movies being filled with blacks, who did not exist in 18th century England. In that time there were two members of the aristocracy, female, who had some, not even 50%, African ancestry and yet anything made in that period now is awash in people with African and sometimes Indian or Asian ancestry. It never happened.
The greatest insanity was the remake of Henry VIIIth and his wives with a clearly African actress playing Anne Boleyn. Does this madness know no bounds? Some might say, it does not matter because it is inclusive. Well, sure, you can get away with that for stories set in modern times, almost, but you cannot get away with it reinventing past centuries and retrofitting them with Woke agendas. Let alone rewriting great English literature to fit with modern fancies.
One thing is certain, forcing 'blackness' down people's throats in this way is guaranteed to create a racism which previously did not exist.
Just an observation from fashion websites. Usually about 50 - 75% of the models are women of colour (not trans women......yet) and in order for the photos to look good, the clothes have to be colours which match their skin tones so they can wear very vivid colours. I am blonde, white and blue eyed and because most of the clothes are designed to look good on darker skinned people it really reduces the options available to me. I can only hope that these companies have a reduction in sales but I imagine they will blame it on the economy rather than their strategy. By the way, if they ever start using male models for women’s clothes then I shall stop buying clothes altogether.