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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".
I agree Ms Fulani is milking the situation somewhat.
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.
 
Think she’s resigned.

But fully relate to your comments regarding not having your moral compass skewed by actions or views of others around you. Guilt should never be by association alone.


It doesn’t matter of course, and never should it form any basis of an impression of someone. But in the spirit of small talk conversation at a conference, is it completely off the menu in any case? Perhaps she was trying to connect with her with a story about previous charity work she’d done in Africa? I think the manner in which she asked her was more bad taste than the fact that she asked at all. It was patronising, but I don’t think that automatically characterises her as racist.

One good thing to come out of this at least is that Ngozi Fulani will have enough publicity to better the cause of her charity work for domestic abuse.

Does this sound like small talk?

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But does this really justify claims of abuse and verbal violence, to be publicly transmitted via the media and her many appearances on TV ? I’m not really defending the older Lady, who was no doubt insensitive as 80+ year olds can be, but it’s gone way too far...
I'm not a person of colour. I can't tell you if these claims of abuse and verbal violence is justifiable because I've never walked in their shoes (being in the UK as a person of colour). Unless you have, you will never understand IMO.
 
Conversation between two women, with an obvious age gap. The younger lady takes offence regarding questions of where she is from. The story is immediately released to the Media, papers, TV etc etc, by the younger lady. The elder lady offers an apology and is removed from her role at the palace. Why did this go public ? Who benefits ? Who suffers ? ….
Pete, I know it’s tough for you, but try and look at it from the affronted person’s perspective ?

You said, I think, that you can trace your family’s history back to Ireland.

The offended lady, apparently has no knowledge of her heritage, beyond the fact that her ancestors were transported as slaves from somewhere in Africa, to the Carribbean.

The rewards of which, provided much of the riches, by which the Royal family maintain their wealth to this day.

To me that stinks. To them, it is a right, which they have justifiably inherited and will fight to maintain, for evermore.

It isn’t right, their wealth in the present day, should not have any basis on profits made from conquest of foreign lands, or the slave trade.

If you believe it is justified and you pay homage to them, I understand why you disagree.
 
It was almost inevitable that some trawling of Ms Fulani’s background would occur, and there may well be more to the story than meets the eye, unfortunately any truth will be obscured by extreme defences / mud slinging on both sides.
I still think at 83 she should have been put out to pasture and off the public purse some time ago, and putting someone of that age and gilded background into that position was asking for trouble. Whether Hussey is as racist as
If there’s any truth to the intimation that Fulani’s charity isn’t all it seems then whoever is responsible for the background checks on who gets invited to these functions needs to go too.
 
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