Thanks for the predictable answer.

Remember when Obama was elected the President of the United States? It was the end of racism! I mean it's not like a portion of the country freaked out and elected an idiot for President in response.

I always find there to be this wide gulf between white people who seem to think racism means the KKK and neo-Nazis and burning crosses and POC who are less concerned with the openly bigoted (because assholes be assholes) and more concerned with the more insidious, unconscious forms of racism.

When we are discussing racism with regard to Meghan Markle, we are not talking about Britons openly or secretly hating black people, we are talking about her consciously or unconsciously being treated differently than a white woman Harry might have married.

You obviously know little. Because her father and half-sister (who she did not grow up with) used her impending marriage to get attention in the tabloids. And she is the one distancing herself from them (rightfully, I think). So how is she the one rubbing people the wrong way?

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The reaction is that she is ungrateful for the opportunity that she was given, which is not incompatible with the idea that there are racist overtones to Meghan's treatment.

I really do think this move comes from Harry’s strained relationship with the press & the way they hounded his mother (especially her death) & the way they have started to go for his wife.

I think to say the U.K. is not racist is to be living with your head in the sand.

I do youth work @ a place not a million miles from Bill & the comments I hear are incredible.it’s like someone is reading the front page of some of the tabloids.

Complaints about stealing jobs, taking houses, not speaking English & creating their own shops, lowering school standards due to lack of English, claiming dole, destroying the NHS etc etc etc

You should have heard the outcry over the last Labour candidate. Now, granted, some was because he lived in London & there were some questions about his finances, but many, many, were about his Turkish heritage.

What is really interesting is that the number of people not born in the U.K. living in the area is actually small. But the number of people of different ethnic descent is much higher, & therefore appears to be an issue.

I think to link the desire of people who are trying to get into the country by foul means with ergo the U.K. is not seen as racist is a huge mistake. The people trying to get into the country are spectacularly mis-informed. Remember, they think the journey will not be as hard as it is, probably don’t know the percentage of deaths that occur, & think there is a job @ the other end, not some form of slavery. So yeah, they are informed by some pretty unscrupulous people as to the situation in the U.K.