Much was disclosed during Meghan
and Harry's interview with Oprah
Winfrey, including the fact that,
wouldn't you know it, the royal
family seems to be pretty racist.
Let's watch.
>> The conversation of he won't be
given security.
He's not going to be given a title.
And also concerns and
conversations about how dark his
skin might be when he's born.
So there's Meghan Markle, talking
specifically about her son Archie.
She's, of course biracial, and
based on the accusations she made
during this interview,
the royal family not only refused
to provide security for Archie,
their son, but also had concerns
about how dark his skin color would
be after he was born.
And then,
asked later in the interview about
Meghan's comments relating
to Archie's title and security,
here's what Harry had to say.
>> Meghan shared with us that there
was a conversation with
you about Archie's skin tone.
What was that conversation?
>> That conversation I'm never
going to share.
But at the time, it was awkward.
I was a bit shocked.
>> Can you tell us what
the question was?
>> No, I'm not comfortable
sharing that.
>> Okay.
>> But that was right at
the beginning, right?
>> Like what will the baby
look like?
Yeah, what will the kids look like?
>> What will the kids look like.
>> But that was right at
the beginning when she wasn't
going to get security, when members
of my family were suggesting
that she carries on acting because
there's not enough money to pay for
her, and all this sort of stuff.
There was some real obvious signs
before we even got married that
this was going to be really hard.
>> So there were all sorts of
speculations about who said this to
Prince Harry and Meghan Markel.
But later Oprah did clarify that
Harry said that it was not Queen
Elizabeth, it was not the king.
So people are still wondering
who it is.
It's also notable that Harry made
it clear that he and
his father are no longer speaking.
That's not to say that he's the one
who said this.
But clearly,
Prince Harry has a pretty damaged
relationship with his father after
he decided to leave the UK and
come to Los Angeles.
Or I should say Southern California
with his wife Meghan.
>> Yeah. >> I'm sorry,
not the king, I mean Prince Philip.
So it was not Prince Philip and
it was not Queen Elizabeth either.
>> Yeah. >> Based on what
Harry says.
>> Yeah, look, I think this is
an interesting story, even divorced
from the royal family.
If you watch the Young Turks at all
in the last couple of decades,
you know I couldn't care less about
the royal family.
Why we're having conversations
about these privileged,
entitled people living off
an antiquated system is beyond me.
It's absurd.
Really?
Is she really the queen?
Does she rule England?
No, she's not the queen,
it's just this total nonsense
leftover tradition.
We must continue a tradition,
must we?
Slavery was a tradition,
not interested in continuing that.
I could name me 20 others.
But in this case, it actually
points to a larger problem,
which is old world racism, and
it exists, and it is gigantic.
So sometimes,
right-wingers in America will say,
there's actually more racism in
the rest of the world.
There's actually a lot of
truth to that.
That doesn't
make the racism here okay.
Right, that's the part
the right-wingers miss out on.
Well, look, man,
I was pretty racist, but I wasn't
as racist as some other people.
It's not a great defense.
But am I surprised that somebody
was concerned about their skin
color?
I would be shocked if no one in
the royal family was not concerned,
right?
So, look, everybody from the old
world looks at skin colour.
They just do.
I'm pretty dark for a Turk, okay?
And so
does that create sometimes issues?
A little bit, but there's a lot
more issues internally.
And, look,
it's the oldest thing in the world,
and part of the reason is,
if you were dark,
it meant you work the fields.
If you're a lighter skin,
it meant you were privileged and
wealthy and
didn't have to work the fields.
So there's so
many different components of it.
But are they going to bring race
into this?
Meaning the rest of the royals?
Of course,
do you think that they think that
a black child is as valuable as
English, as a white English child?
Are you insane?
Of course there are people
in the royal family who don't
think that at all.
They think a black kid is a lot
less English and
a lot less valuable.
And if you don't realize that they
think that, you have no idea what's
going on on this planet.
>> I just think it's interesting
how, anytime there's any
discussion about the royal family,
at least in the context of
the press in the United States,
it focuses on the glitz, and
the glam, and the weddings, and on.
But there's never really
a discussion about
what the royal family represents.
There's no discussion about the
actual history of the royal family.
Why is anyone shocked that
the royal family, which has
a history of colonizing African
countries, happens to be racist?
Or there are people within
the royal family who happen
to be racist?
Yeah, yeah, I think the part of
this that is, I don't know, for
lack of a better word frustrating
is the shock factor.
Oprah Winfrey's reaction to
Megan Merkel's accusation,
we didn't have it in the video, but
she was just like, what?
She was shocked.
But no one should be shocked.
I'm not excusing it,
don't get me wrong.
I'm not excusing it.
I just think that it's an issue
when the conversation tends to just
stop at a debate about whether or
not racism exists
within the police department.
Whether racism exists within the
royal family, whether racism exists
within governmental institution.
Yes, yes, racism exists.
We know this.
And the question is,
what's the next step, right?
We never get to the next step.
It was the same thing with
the Trump administration.
Endless debates, endless
conversations, endless back and
forth about whether or not
the Trump administration is racist.
Everyone says he's racist,
but the conservatives say this.
Who cares what
the conservatives say?
Conservatives have been fighting to
conceal racism and
systemic racism forever.
So why are we treating them as if
they're credible sources to
discuss this?
But anyway,
that's where I stand on this issue.
I feel awful that they
went through that, but
I'm not shocked in the very least.
>> Yeah, look, Winston Churchill.
He was a part of the royal family,
but part of the British Empire,
obviously, his prime minister was
horrifically racist
against Indians.
And we can go on and on.
Look, and this isn't
just about white Europeans either.
It spans the globe,
that's why I brought up Turks.
There's an old school saying in
Turkey, I hope not
a lot of people know it anymore.
But I'm worried.
They would say,
an ideal woman would be so
white and pale you can see a dark
grape going down her throat.
First of all, okay?
But second of all, and
Turks are middle eastern,
originally Asian.
But nonetheless, so
it's all across the globe, guys.
And every time I think about it,
it makes my blood boil at
the injustice.
For black people all across
the world, to have to deal
with this crap nonstop,
it's maddening, the injustice.
They're the most patient people in
the world.
And what the whole world has done
to them is unconscionable.