Meghan was called ‘gangster Royalty’ by The Star and ‘straight outta Compton’ by The Daily Mail, whose readers labelled her a ‘monkey wh***’, ‘dirty pornstar’ and a ‘Mulatto prostitute’. Just one of many shameful headlines written about Meghan. He was quickly forced to address a statement regarding this, in response to ‘a wave of abuse and harassment’, which has only become more frequent, more distressing and more horrific. The media has relentlessly attacked her since it was revealed she was dating Prince Harry in 2016, which has only encouraged online trolls to do the same. He is of course not alone in his damning treatment of Meghan. Imagine my surprise then, or rather my disappointment, to see that years later the same boy, now an adult, was attacking Meghan Markle on Facebook with aggressive racial slurs. That was the day my aunt had to explain to me what racism is. As there was no proof that the boy said it first, he was lightly told off and I sat alone in the corner watching him play with our friends.
So I then repeated it back to him, but the teacher heard me and I was punished, missing out on Enrichment. I had no idea what the word meant or why the boy said it and naively thought it was a funny joke, as he was laughing the whole time. One of my earliest memories is when I was called a ‘P*ki’ in primary school. Content warning: contains discussions of racism and suicide.
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