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'Marrying my black husband made me realise I was racist': Harry and Meghan's new strategist says she discovered that ‘all white people are rife with internalised racism and unconscious bias' after her own wedding
Daily Mail ^ | March 23, 2021 | Ross Ibbetson

Posted on 03/24/2021 6:29:19 AM PDT by rickmichaels

Harry and Meghan's new strategist has revealed that she realised she was racist after marrying her black husband.

Genevieve Roth believes that all white people are 'rife with internalised racism and unconscious bias'.

'Race is an issue in our marriage because as a white woman of privilege, I have racist tendencies written in at a cellular level,' the former Hilary Clinton aide wrote.

Roth is the founder of Invisible Hand, a 'female-led diverse team' based in New York which is advising the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's Archewell foundation.

In article for Good Housekeeping last year she wrote about the notion of white privilege and her heightened understanding of it after marrying her husband, Jordan, with whom she shares a daughter, Frankie.

She cited an example of how she mentioned to her husband, while they were driving to look for holiday homes, that their licence plates were nearly expired.

'He got so angry with me that I worried he would crash the car,' Roth wrote.

Her husband, she said, then explained to her: 'Do you realize that if a cop pulls us over for expired tags, I could be killed?'

Roth says she 'had not realized.'

In another example she says Jordan mentioned, while driving along the same road, that this is the 'same borough where Eric Garner was murdered.'

Garner, a black man, was killed in a chokehold during an arrest in New York in 2014.

Roth wrote: 'I mean, I really had not realized.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: endwhiteshaming; hysteria; paranoia
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To: rickmichaels

Cultural differances.

Family member married a black person. They were very concerned my kids went to a private religious school, because in some parts of the south that was how white families kept their schools segregated.

Till that in law saw my kids birthday party and realized Iowa is not South Carolina.

It took that person decades to realize we didn’t give a rip about their skin color. At first that bothered them more, but after a while they began to realize that they held some world views that were as problematic as a stereotypical racist.

Hell it wasn’t until then I realized that being able to swim was “racist”. All the kids I grew up with in the Midwest knew how to swim. No matter where they were from. It was part of the culture. This person did not learn till they were an adult because in their home town, the only pool was a private country club that excluded black people.


61 posted on 03/24/2021 7:37:41 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: alstewartfan

Or being a migrant worker like my stepfather’s mom; that is how she feed her family during the depression; he told me that he could remember playing with the Mexican kids while she worked in the fields.

How many modern day blacks or leftists have done that? I’m sick of this nonsense about “white privilege”. Where was her “white privilege” O ye leftist hypocrites?


62 posted on 03/24/2021 7:40:18 AM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all anti-semites)
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To: rickmichaels

At what point will the left overplay their hand?

This is getting exhausting. Race, race, race...

They’re consumed by race — and in and of itself, it’s incredibly racist. I see far more racism in the idea that “You’re black, you need whitey’s special help to make it in the world” than anything I have ever experienced on the right.


63 posted on 03/24/2021 7:41:24 AM PDT by Magnatron
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To: rickmichaels

Why would your husband marry such an awful person?

Doesn’t speak well of him, does it?


64 posted on 03/24/2021 7:41:58 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Rurudyne

When you have been told that your whole life, it is not something you can change easily.

My previous post mentioned a black person that married into my family. He truly believed that all cops would kill him for any reason.

It took a long time for him to realize the cops in my home town will harass you for out of state plates, but could care less about the color of your skin. Expired tags? Yeah they will key up on that but if you behave rationally they are not going to shoot you.

But that guy had been told by his parents and grandparents that all cops were going to kill him. So stopping that belief is very difficult.


65 posted on 03/24/2021 7:44:29 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: rickmichaels

99% of my racism is the result of being attacked as a racist. I will not socialize with blacks because I simple don’t want to spend my time defending myself.

Perfect example of a self fulfilling prophesy.


66 posted on 03/24/2021 7:48:00 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: chajin

EXCELLENT POST!


67 posted on 03/24/2021 7:49:11 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
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To: rickmichaels

Classic projection.

No, not *everyone* is a racist.

Just you, and your virtue signaling by marrying a black person doesn’t change that.


68 posted on 03/24/2021 7:53:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: rickmichaels

I don’t remember being at her wedding.


69 posted on 03/24/2021 7:57:49 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: rickmichaels

The effects of Jungle Fever?


70 posted on 03/24/2021 7:59:11 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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To: I want the USA back

I don’t pay any attention to it. It is another way of saying I don’t give a quack what they think. Like old mother duck.


71 posted on 03/24/2021 8:00:37 AM PDT by sport
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To: rickmichaels

Genevieve Roth, an admitted racist, is advising an actress how to dismiss her own racist attitudes by projecting them onto innocent other people. SOP for woke leftists


72 posted on 03/24/2021 8:04:10 AM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves)
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To: rickmichaels

So she needs to cancel herself for her racism and take herself off of all media platforms.


73 posted on 03/24/2021 8:24:37 AM PDT by lurk ( )
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To: redgolum

Thus Chris Rock’s classic skit on how not to get beat up by the police.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8

... which is actually good advice to anyone of any race.

And, building on Rock’s comedy, if you think the cops are out to get you for being black wouldn’t you also believe that they’d be more likely to believe anything your angry white wife said?


74 posted on 03/24/2021 8:31:42 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Well said.

Still not sure why we are giving so much print space to mental illness.


75 posted on 03/24/2021 8:33:38 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: rickmichaels

76 posted on 03/24/2021 8:36:29 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Rurudyne

Who is “safer”, a White Guy wearing a MAGA Hat walking down the street or a Black Guy wearing a BLM Hat walking down the street?

Who is “safer”, a Black guy walking through a predominately White Neighborhood or a White Guy walking through a predominately Black Neighborhood, Hats or no Hats.

Who is safer, a White Girl alone on Spring Break in Miami, oops, never mind.


77 posted on 03/24/2021 8:42:42 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Don't blame me, I Voted for the guy who actually Won the 2020 Presidential Election...)
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To: AndyTheBear

“all white people are rife with internalized racism and unconscious bias”

We’re also supposed to have racism baked into our DNA according to the former dear leader who was described as someone who focused on bringing people together.

I have at least three ancestors who put their lives on the line and fought for the Union in the Civil War. More than 300,000 white people fought for the same cause and died. What racism was in their DNA? What was evidence of their “internalized racism?”

Don’t these white people and White clergy and many others who fought for Abolition or helped escaped slaves in the Underground Railroad get any credit at all?


78 posted on 03/24/2021 9:04:43 AM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: Rurudyne

When you have been taught since you were a toddler that cops are evil, every problem you have is because of race, and that to survive you must steal, would such advice seem true to you?

I have a strong dislike of people from one town north of where I grew up, because of what my grandpa said all of my childhood. Stupid and odd, but that was imprinted on me.

Now if your entire family and social group is doing that, you will believe them more than some random person who doesn’t understand you. Even if it is your spouse.

“You can take the boy out the country, but not the country out of the boy!”


79 posted on 03/24/2021 9:04:56 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: rickmichaels

Pity this woman’s poor husband, legally bound to such a dead soul propagandist!


80 posted on 03/24/2021 9:09:28 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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