Het Brits koningshuis [titel aangepast op verzoek to]

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Reactie van Ngozi Fulani:
Replying to messages of support, Fulani tweeted: “I think it is essential to acknowledge that trauma has occurred and being invited and then insulted has caused much damage.

She wrote: “There was nobody to report it to. I couldn’t report it to the Queen Consort, plus it was such a shock to me and the 2 other women we were stunned into temporary silence. I just stood at the edge of the room, smiled & engaged briefly, with those who spoke to me until I could leave.”

She added: “It was such a struggle to stay in a space you were violated in.”

She told the Guardian the first “no no” was Hussey moving her hair.

“Here I am in this place as part of the 16 days of activism, experiencing non-physical violence – you feel like you have the right to approach me, put your hand in my hair and insist I don’t have the right to British nationality. In a space like that, what do you do?”

She said she had “never felt so unwelcome or so uncomfortable”.

She said: “I was almost forced to say that I’m not really British. I don’t know what she meant by ‘my people’. It was incomprehensible for her to consider that I have British citizenship. When she heard my parents were from the Caribbean she said: ‘Finally we are getting somewhere’ … It was overt racism.

Of Hussey’s resignation, she said: “It’s tragic for me that it has ended that way. I would have preferred that she had been spoken to or re-educated.”

Reid, who witnessed the encounter, said it left the three women “shell-shocked”. They were invited as guests, she said. “We were made to feel in a way like trespassers.

“It was pretty shocking, because we didn’t feel welcome. We didn’t feel that we belonged. We felt our legitimacy in a way was challenged and questioned. It’s the last thing I’d expect when I have been invited.”

She suggested the palace household could benefit from cultural competency training of the sort run by Sistah Space. “You can’t, on the one hand, wang on about the Commonwealth and embracing the Commonwealth family, and yet people like us, the three of us, are treated as if we don’t belong.”

Describing it as an example of “institutional racism”, she said: “They have to take responsibility for it.They’ve got to show leadership. Not only in their own realm, but they have to take leadership for the country and for the Commonwealth they claim to preside over.”

She said: “It’s about the culture within the institution of the royal family. We’ve got a new king now who has a chance to actually signal that he wants to do something better, to do something different.”

It is not the first time the royal institution has faced claims of racism. In their interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex made claims of racism against the family, which were denied by Prince William.

Bron: The Guardian

Misschien wel een heel goede suggestie om de organisatie Sistah Space een een training te laten verzorgen op Buckingham Palace.

Ik denk ook dat er een verjonging moet plaatsvinden in het personeelsbestand. Een 83-jarige opnieuw een functie geven was niet zo’n goed idee van Charles. De dochter van deze Lady Hussey is dus gezel van Camilla. Één familielid in functie lijkt me daarnaast ook voldoende; een moeder én dochter benoemen?

Dat is nu met het probleem van de koninklijke organisatie; de wijze waarop sommige functies worden vergeven; er zijn  functies die erfelijk zijn, er zijn functies die altijd door adelijke families worden ingevuld en er zijn functies die door vrienden worden ingevuld. Een vorm van nepotisme.

Als Charles de monarchie wil vernieuwen, is er nog heel wat werk aan de winkel; de organisatie moet een slag maken in professionalisme. Dat is voor de royals niet eenvoudig; zij vertrouwen erop dat mensen uit deze kleine cirkel ook hun privacy waarborgen.