I can see how Ms Fulani felt excluded by Lady Susan Hussey’s questions, which rejected Fulani’s being British, especially since Hussey pushed way too far.
I mean, it’s kind of a bummer when you are in the land you were born and raised in and someone acts like you couldn’t possibly be just because of the color of your skin when there are plenty of others in your same position.
Imagine a woman you love who worked extremely hard to become a mwdical doctor and she meets someone who says, Oh, you’re a doctor? What kind of doctor?
A medical doctor.
A medical doctor? Not a PhD kind of doctor?
Yes, an actual medical doctor.
(Suspiciously) Where did you go to medical school?
Harvard.
What? Nah, you’re too pretty to be a doctor from Harvard.
I think it can be hard for people who are accepted as fitting in to understand the difficulty presented by a person’s apparent refusal to believe you fit in, which is for example what women went through in my own lifetime.
So I think we need to pay more attention to what others are saying to us and not always have a knee-jerk reaction.
I think people of every fricking color need to develop thicker skins.
I mean, it’s kind of a bummer when you are in the land you were born and raised in and someone acts like you couldn’t possibly be just because of the color of your skin when there are plenty of others in your same position.
If you dress in foreign clothes it is natural to be questioned on your origin.