** FATHER FRANK’S RANTS Rant Number 750 29/11/17 HARRY, MEGHAN AND RACISM

HARRY AND MEGHAN'S ENGAGEMENT. BRIGHT NEW DAWN? GOOD FOR ANTI-RACISM? OR JUST FROTH?
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‘A shallow social climber’, Meghan’s half-sister termed her.  Sour grapes? Regardless, Meghan sure has climbed high enough. Up the Himalayas of earthly fame for a divorced, second rate, obscure actress. Well done!

‘Are you in love?’ a TV interviewer asked Harry’s parents when they got engaged. ‘Yes!’ Diana beamed but Charles, in his strangulated posh accent, let out: ‘Whatever in love means.’ Pussy-footing words that gave the game away. Diana was the sacrificial victim. (Camilla lurking in the background, witch-like.) Body language and tones are totally different with Harry and Meghan. Harry is caught. Infatuated. In the bag. ‘Accalappiato’, as Italians would say. Will it work? Time will tell.

Meghan is mixed-race, everybody keeps blabbing, just in case you hadn’t noticed. Actually, the skin colour of my gorgeous, former girl-friend Maria, who hailed from Calabria, was darker than Meghan’s but I never thought it mattered a fig. Harping on racial features speaks volumes about the obsessions and hang-ups of Western culture. So liberals and lefties of all hues are enchanted. Racists will be tearing their hair out. Maybe but racism is complicated.

Let’s get real. The neo-liberal, capitalist elites that run globalisation and worship the free market have no interest whatever in racism. Racism is bad for business, see? Promoters of consumerism don’t give a damn about consumers’ skin colour. Why should they? Profit is all that matters to them. If a new race of maculated green mutants emerged, providing they bought and sold the unnecessary gadgets that rule your life, they’d be gleefully welcome. Integrated into the capitalist machine overnight. No, racism has no market value. And the market is the god of our time.

The Left and the liberals find racism a useful stick with which to beat their enemies about the head. Propaganda and rhetoric are one thing, however, reality another. There is no colour bar in any Western country. There are whole rafts of laws, rules and regulations criminalising not just racist acts and crimes – as it is right and proper - but even the slightest suggestion, the faintest verbal expression of racist sentiments. Is racism a red herring then?

Not quite. Racism exists. In the Arab-Persian Gulf migratory serfs, even Muslims, are treated as second-class citizens by the local tribes that pretend to be nations. In Libya black Africans are trafficked and sold like slaves. In Britain a subtle but deeply-rooted  xenophobia is part of the psychic make-up of the native population. George Orwell, a progressive writer, stated correctly that ‘English people consider themselves superior to foreigners’. Whence does this mental racism come from? The result of many historical (and perhaps ‘racial’) factors.  I believe it originates from having being a great empire and never been invaded and conquered, unlike most European countries which have tasted the bitter taste of defeat, humiliation and degradation. A race accustomed, until fifty years ago, to feel like the lords of the earth, well, that’s not going to disappear easily or quickly.

What is to be done? I have the solution. A delightful French friend, a super girl called Justine, told me. It is set out at the end of my e-book, ‘The Dark Side of Britain’. Available here: https://simplesite.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3ae40cde0c299583529f1448a&id=c1f97adf05&e=5707b9e8db And then you can stone me to death.

‘The last time a Royal wanted to marry a man of another race, things happened’, someone posted on Facebook. Guess he meant poor Dodi al-Fayed, Princess Diana’s last companion, who tragically died with her in Paris 20 years ago. Their official engagement was to be announced next day but fate (or some agency) interposed. Although poor Dodi, whom I met and whom I thought a very pleasant fellow, was Egyptian, described by Prince Philip as ‘an oily bed hopper’, the real issue was not skin colour but religion. Dodi was a Muslim. Of the blandest and most unthreatening kind but still a Muslim. If Meghan had belonged to the religion of the Crescent I figure that might have got some people jittery. Or indeed a Roman Catholic. TV voices hastened to reassure bigots that Meghan went to a Catholic school but she is ‘a Protestant’. (A laughable word in this case. Does she even own a Bible?) She will be baptized and confirmed into the Church of England before she marries Harry. A relief?
Guess the idiotic BBC has no inkling why in a godless nation an unbaptized Royal would fit in rather well.

Not racism but straight discrimination here. The 1701 Act of Settlement, still binding, forbids a member of the Royal Family to marry a Catholic. If he/she does, he loses right of succession to the throne. Pretty unfair but such are the laws of merry, post-Christian England.

As the Private Eye photo suggests, Harry when sowing his wild oats wore a swastika. Oops! That was a bit of a faux pas. Nazism is the beast no right-thinking person dreams of praising, unless determined on self-destruction. Despite that old British Empire having been pretty rough against lesser races. But it would be undiplomatic to dwell on that…

The swastika armband was folies de jeunesse. Water under the bridge…Wait a minute. Did Harry not take pot shots at the Taleban when serving in Afghanistan? Terminated a few Muslims, in other words? Hhmmm…not everybody will forgive him for that. Hold him tight, Meghan! Just in case.

Revd Frank Julian Gelli

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