What if Kate Middleton Were Black?
by Dr. Boyce Watkins, YourBlackWorld.com – Scholarship in Action
If there were a royal wedding being held in Africa, would CNN spend an entire week covering it? If not, what does that say about race, if anything at all?
I couldn’t help but feel entirely disconnected from the ceremony that was being shown all over our television sets at the same time hundreds of people were being killed in an Alabama tornado. I kept wondering if the fantasy of the British fairytale had more relevance to news producers than the reality of death and devastation.
I also felt badly for any little black girls (or grown-ups) who found themselves swept away by the fairytale that they will never live in their own lives. Not to be presumptuous, but I can’t imagine the royal family taking it well if Kate Middleton (the bride) had been black.
But perhaps I’m just speculating.
It’s obvious there’s a dividing among the races. I was watching a movie that was made several years ago, it was not one of the big movies but it made sense. The movie “Livin Large!” starring Terrence T.C. Carson, there was a statement made in the movie, (look all around you) “It’s a White Man World”.
Being black myself which I am very proud. Sometime people get swept away in fantasy and they lose reality for the real world. To live in a make believe World is definite a fairytale this is when the Disney’s classics Cinderella come to mind.
No, CNN would not cover it, why? because many black people hold themselves to a lower standard. Our kids learn to disrepect each other and old people. How can any culture respect a people who call each other nigger a word whose history is negative and violent. That is why leadership is very important in the black community, as you can see with the death of MLK who was the only person who looked at our people and saw greatness but also saw a need for discipline and truth in our daily lives. He understood that to blame others for your problems would allow us to become mental slaves to people black and white who want to use us. We need strenght and truth from our leaders not blamers.
Such Ignorance!
I don’t think I’m alone in wondering if Prince William’s mother Diana’s death wasn’t somehow hastened by her choice to fall in love with an Egyptian man. Could the English royals have tolerated William and Harry possibly finding another, possibly better, father figure in a man of Color? The one time I got to meet Diana, my best friend (a darkly-complected man of Color) and I said “Hello” and shook her hand in a crowd outside Northwestern Hospital where she had spoke on breast cancer. She was warmly charismatic and friendly-not seeming the least bit unnerved speaking to an Afrixan-American man. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it’s hard to not consider that more than a bad circumstance caused the swift death of both Diana and her lover Dodi.