
Meghan said racism drove her out of the UK. Black Britons ask, 'are we still here in 2021?'
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It's been a gut-wrenching week for Black Britons.
First came the interview where what many Black Britons believed in their hearts to be true was confirmed -- Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Britain's first member of the modern British royal family to identify as a woman of color, said she was forced to leave the monarchy in large part due to the British press "inciting... racism" against her." Then came the defensiveness of some in the media trying again to gaslight an entire nation.More Related News

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