I agree Ms Fulani is milking the situation somewhat.Again, how do you know her views ? If I were asked a similar question it would have gone “from Liverpool, but originally the family came over from Ireland’… the lady who ‘suffered all this abuse’ needs to get a grip, and the more I hear of her on her now many TV appearances I’m afraid merely reinforces that view.
“ Ms Fulani also rebuffed suggestions that Lady Hussey's remarks had anything to do with her age.
"Let us be clear what this is. I've heard so many suggestions it's about her age and stuff like that, and I think that's kind of a disrespect - an ageism kind of thing.
"I have to really question how this can happen in a space that's supposed to protect women against all kinds of violence.
"Although it's not physical violence - it is an abuse."
Ms Fulani continued: "If you invite people to an event, against domestic abuse, and there are people there from different demographics, I don't see the relevance of whether I'm British or not British.
"I'm very proud of my African heritage. This is like the Windrush thing to me. You're trying to make me unwelcome in my own space."
She added she felt like she was being asked to "denounce my British citizenship".
She then goes on to compare it with violence. I suspect, but do not know, that women who have suffered actual violence may have a different viewpoint. This particular Lady is milking it….
“ Ms Fulani later told BBC News: "Now, violence isn't always physical, it can be verbal.
"And that felt like violence to me, and when you put your hand in my hair like I'm not even a person - you can just do what you want and say what you want - I don't want to be in your presence."
In an interview on ITV's Good Morning Britain, Ms Fulani also said Buckingham Palace had not contacted her about the incident, insisting she would accept an invitation to discuss it with them.
"See, what we're about is positive results, so absolutely, I think a discussion should be held," she said.
Ms Fulani, who was representing her charity which supports women of African and Caribbean heritage across the UK who have faced domestic and sexual abuse, was one of 300 guests at the event where the Queen Consort, Camilla, had warned of a "global pandemic of violence against women".
Having seen her on TV sporting clothes with the colours of the Senegal flag, to ask where she was from would not be an unreasonable question. However for me, where it changes from innocence to ignorance is the persistent failure to accept Fulani as British when she told her she was.
She essentially gave the equivalent answer you are using as an example, but it wasn’t accepted that she could be from Hackney, or British.
That Ms Fulani might be taking it further than you (or I) feel is necessary, doesn’t dilute a pretty gross example of sub conscious bias on the part of Susan Hussey.
I don’t know what her views are but reading the transcript of the exchange I am sufficiently informed to suspect that she could not accept Ms Fulani as British because of the colour of her skin and look of her hair.
