The entire concept of royalty — that rank, position and privilege are conferred by an accident of birth — is rooted in racism; that you are “better” just because of your station at birth.
Why do so many Americans lionize the Royal Family — the political (and biological) heirs to the folks that established racism in the colonies that became “the origins of our discontents,” in the words of award-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, as the subtitle of her award-winning book on racial justice, Caste: the Origins of our Discontents?
We literally had a war to divorce ourselves from that racist, classist point of view.
The entire concept of royalty — that rank, position and privilege are conferred by an accident of birth — is rooted in racism; that you are “better” just because of your station at birth.
Why do so many Americans lionize the Royal Family — the political (and biological) heirs to the folks that established racism in the colonies that became “the origins of our discontents,” in the words of award-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson, as the subtitle of her award-winning book on racial justice, Caste: the Origins of our Discontents?
We literally had a war to divorce ourselves from that racist, classist point of view.