Harry and Meghan say Commonwealth 'must acknowledge the past'

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have said the Commonwealth “must acknowledge the past”, even if it is “uncomfortable”, as the couple spoke of historic injustice, unconscious bias and racism in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.

 

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Shit on both these to . Go back to Africa and stay there for life.

They benefit by building their profile and material now they have signed for Harry Walker Agency, expecting million $ payouts on the circuit. They are hard at it. Only if the pandemic goes on for some time they will run out of steam as they have no substance. Poor them!

All of it? Or just the small bit that did it all?

What a pair of wankers

We do not need them , work for a living

Do. Not. Care. What. They. Say.

They also need to acknowledge the present and how they treat the people of St. Helena Island, a place where Colonialism reeks, today!

Harry, start a movement. Use your power, convince the government to make it policy for our past to be taught in schools. Follow MarcusRashford s amazing example of how to use your influence

100%

The Queen nearing the end of an amazing life, full of contribution. And her grandson Harry gladly takes a piss on everything she has tried to build.

Should Spain give all its gold back to south America then? Should the normans apologize for the battle of Hastings

Why? They don’t even live in the commonwealth

They don't live in a Commonwealth country.

Just a moment to remmember...thank you for your glorious heart...be save in there.

But they don’t mind living off of tax money being part of a family that started colonialism.

He was a prime example for young men of his country, someone to look up to and now look at his expressions, how he changed. He looks broken. Don't tell me they both said it. She said it and if it wasn't for him, there would be zero fucks given to what she said

I have no time for these guys (Harry and Meghan), but they can redeem themselves by pressuring Britain to acknowledge its historical wrong doings as an imperial colonial power & its continued domestic racism! Do it now UK before social division reaches the levels of ugly USA.

My friends outside of Australia may not be aware that there are three versions of the Nword in Australia that were created by white people to demonise & subjugate Aboriginal people. racism HarryandMeghan Commonwealth I wrote about them here :

They are so desperately painful by now It's like reoccurring pimple memes

Jog on in LA Yesterday's news

Harry is the living embodiment of how to lose friends and alienate people. Quite a contrast to who he was before Meghan.

This pair need to listen more and talk less.

You should have a little chat with your grandma, woke Harry... (and perhaps open one history book or two in the process, and start a family reading time, looks like your wife and son would benefit)

Harry is the living breathing how to lose friends and alienate people. Quite a contrast to who he was before Meghan.

GrogsGamut Ought to dismantle the royal family then, if we’re going to acknowledge the past.

Sorry, I thought you guys didn't want any media attention any more or benefit from being in the royal family? Seems you can have your cake and eat it too.

I like these guys - so we’re moving in ?!!!

He should first talk about his dad and uncle who are both pedos

as a citizen of one of those colonized nations which Britain exploited & brutalized through slavery, lemme say this; for Harry to publicly acknowledge Britain's vile past is a tiny step towards reconciliation. Own ur fucking past Britain!

The British Crown can start by providing its African and Caribbean Descendants of British slavery some reparations. ReparationsNow

What a ridiculous couple these two make. Righting the world with self-righteousness for fortune.

Argh, the irony of this coming from a guy who refuses to address his own racist past - I will not be lectured to by a guy who thinks it’s appropriate to dress up as a Nazi or call his comrades offensive racial slurs.

All this will do is play into the hands of those who’s wish it is to end the monarchy in this country heaven forbid we will reap what we sow!

I agree all the royal family should be abolished , they are hypocrites!!!!

I agree completely!! People got wealthy trafficking human beings!!

Wait a second Meghan, what is really taught in international studies?

Get on topic you people!! This attention seeking by these 2 is infuriating

What does he mean? Why doesn’t he start by returning the invaluable jewels and artifacts that the British stole during the colonial era that is an acknowledgment of sort.

They are right. Start by taking down the monarchy by any means necessary. Having a queen or a king is medieval and a joke in the Commonwealth.

Very sad Harry...we know you've had a tough time but nothing compared to people having to visit food banks or losing their livelihood through this pandemic. What do you do? Abandon your family and escape to The Real Housewives....for what? Fame?

Not them again.

I acknowledge that Harry dressed as Hitler

Run away from the responsibilities of being a Royal than insult your grandmother and the citizens of a voluntary organization they are a disgrace

How about Harry acknowledging his past and realising no one would listen to a word he says if he wasn’t born into the BRITISH Royal Family. Plus the fact he’d definitely still be single as ME ME Meghan wouldn’t have given him the time of day.

You’re confusing the British Empire, a dubious institution with the Commonwealth, a voluntary institution. You’re also confusing our respect for others views with taking you seriously?

Harry and Megan who ran away from their own responsibilities. Sod off and stay away silver spoon ingrates.

Couldn't make this stuff up. Two individuals who only have a platform and wealth due to the Royal family, a family with unimaginable wealth and status due to the past exploitation of some of these countries are lecturing others? What are they doing about it?

I thought that the entire essence of the 'Commonwealth' is to stop the UK acknowledging the past.

Okay then: kindly ask your grandmother to return the Kohinoor back to India where it rightfully belongs, also don’t forget all the priceless gems, paintings, sculptures & antiques looted by Britain during its colonial spree in Africa. They’re on display at Museums in UK, EU & USA

Does this mean English to pay reparations to Australia and Australians for sending convicts (white slaves) to build a colony for them?

I’m completely unclear as to why it’s assumed that someone with no formal education and a D list actress are in any way authorities.

The commonwealth I think he means the British. These people have lost credibility with the people they are preaching too. Great sentiment but why is a patronising prince and a porn star telling the commonwealth what they should do. You pakced up your toys and ran away. Stay away.

“Speaking from the couples Los Angeles home”...... bet it’s not in South Central 🙄

A 3rd world country UK! People are eating from food banks and you are trying to make a shoplifter Hollywood star! LOL

Cue the Right Wing defending statues of Slave Traders.

Wish these two would zip it.😡

When virtue signalling clowns move to LA..... Trying to win some virtue signalling pals?

Is “the Commonwealth” still a thing?

Does that include the hundreds of years of oppression, murder, betrayal, attempts to permanently erase ethnic identity of the Irish, Scottish and Welsh people, will your family and all the landed english gentry pay reparations, will you even say sorry.

They look like very sad people in that picture.

Privileged, delusional and disrespectful!

Only racists would be mad about speaking truth.

Isn’t that white privilege telling commonwealth countries what they should be doing about history.

Why are they concerned, they ran away from all responsibilities 🙄

Awesome conversation 🤗♥️

Diversity is strength. Where is the diversity on his Commonwealth Zoom call!!🤔

Good thing they are of no relevance anymore

The couple that sued the press because they were forced to leave the UK because of this press, cannot seem to go a week without using the same press to preach to us. They’ve abandoned the UK. Go preach someone else No one cares anymore

Says the Brit expatriates who now live in LA.

Poor Harry, he looks already like a Psycho.

Why did they promise to piss off but keep coming back for more attention. It’s none of their business.

What they seemed to have missed is that they are 100% tabloid fodder and no one is interested in what they think about anything.

I say royals should acknowledge their past too. Then resign.

I guess it won't stop with these two. While the script is still being written, I can't wait to see what happens at the end of their biopic movie.

Frankly, if Harry and Meghan would have really relinquished all the funds they received from the Royal Family, meaning receiving £0 from his father (whose wealth comes from the Royal fund, Real Estate, tax payers) then and only then, they would be a role model to listen to.

Like when British Empire supported Crimean muslim slavetraders, that sold Russians to Italian 'republics' and Turkey?

Before Harry she lived here dating a chef - now she’s the world expert on racial discrimination and the past deeds from a 100 years ago

shout out to real royalty and not that blood drinking pedophile family!

No one gives a shit about the commonwealth apart from a few racist colonialists and a some people who take part in obscure sports and who aren't good enough to make the the Olympics.

Yup. Nigeria owes us a fortune.

I’ll acknowledge your privilege that was brought about by establishing the commonwealth. Other than that I’m still waiting for you too to vanish but you keep coming back. Why?!

A couple with wealth and status that's entirely predicated on centuries of birth-based claims to power says that that the commonwealth 'must acknowledge the past'? No shit.

anyone got a picture of Harry in his Nazi costume

'Please, can you remember that britain used to dominate all of you? We're weak now'

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Harry and his family benefited for centuries from slavery. Hes an hypocrite.

Harry should acknowledge his past. Only a revolting individual does this.

Haha, waiting for angry offended on behalf of the queen juvenile tweets from their British haters, even more from the US. Good for them. They would have been muzzled if they had stayed.

“Can anyone else feel a change in the air? Like it or not, the couple are on a platform and they are working out how best to use it.” - writes Laya Namgoue queenscomtrust scobie KensingtonRoyal RoyaNikkhah thesundaytimes CNN katienicholl IncludeMeTOO Essence

Bang go a few aneurisms in the gammonosphere!

The Commonwealth is a misnomer. It's an international coalition comprising the UK and the states and dependencies that were once part of the British Empire. Members of the Commonwealth are connected by a history of British imperial rule, not by wealth of any kind!

maximilianlion What about all the money the kings and queens stole from england etc etc, which those two morons inherited. Harrys not the sharpest knife in the drawer. More like a blunt spoon. Liberalism is a mental disorder.

RoyalFamily ClarenceHouse KensingtonRoyal errrrr any chance Her Majesty can please speed up the review of the Dumbartons? Removal of all titles + all responsibilities where theres a need for diplomacy + working WITH others would be a great. please, thank you.

Queen Meghan Antoinette speaks to the ignorant plebs...

royal family needs to acknowledge and pay reparations to all the brits forced to flee to the colonies. rape, murder, theft and starvation. all those lords as well. break up the estates. build affordable housing

They are looking more common every day...

Meghan says it. Harry just looks imploringly towards the camera and mouths “Help me. Help me”.

These 2 are a joke

They said from their huge mansion 🙄

Here comes the

Who cares what the think or say, stop reporting about them!

I do wish these two would be quite, I’d have a lot more respect for them if they went and lived quietly somewhere.

Acknowledge the past and make the Windsors pay reparations for their complicity in British imperialism. Is that what they really want? Seems like hypocrisy and virtue signalling of the highest order to me.

Abdicate Harry. One of the dumbest men on the earth. She’s a disgrace.

I thought they left the political busy life of the palace in attempt to find obscurity and hide from fame and the media. I really wish they would do what they planned to do.

Harry and Meghan have forgotten that Harry’s family is the biggest relic of that past!

Harry who?

PHarry_Meghan Start by admitting your hate and killings of the Boers and the murdering of millions across the world... Take a knee on South African soil

Oh dear more British bashing . It just gets worse from these two.

The Commonwealth is the living past

They should hand over their new californian home to whoever it's deemed its land is stolen off of.

Oh really? According to Harry/Meghan the queen should basically apologize for something that happend hundreds of years ago. How about putting some effort in getting rid of that dictator that runs the country THEY live in. M is basically brainwashing H with her 'racetalk'.

Their faces seem exhausting.

White life matter!

Is that the past that was so terrible that Mozambique chose to join the Commonwealth There was a lot of wrong doings but there has been and now is a significant amount of good doings as well commonwealthsec

Megix has been cranked to 1,000

Many nations are guilty of wrong doing in the past. But current generations should not be held responsible. We either evolve or live bitter about the past. The Empire also brought great technology and industrialisation that has benefited the world. It’s not all bad!

Mi novia!😁

So happy for you to be out of your chains and able to speak your mind !

Start with not calling it a 'Commonwealth'

I agree. And certain sections of the media have to acknowledge why they felt this ⬇️ was necessary. More than a few people have said they've been asked to do the same.

Are they aware that after Hubris comes Nemesis, I wonder.

anna_itsonlyme He didn't say that

I’m still waiting for Harry to acknowledge/apologise for his racist comments about fellow Sandhurst colleagues. And let’s start with him repatriating his wealth which was built on Empire. Personal conduct so painfully undermines an otherwise legit point

What a pair of Twats.

Agreed , start by giving up the royals wealth

UK Royals policy does not work this way ... It is not easy of a Royals life ...

While living off daddy’s money preaching. They both can do one!

Harry, you know what truly show your sincerity? Give back all the money that you've received due to your bloodline and get a job at Safeway as a cashier. Do you think your wife would still be at your side?

Better late than never

He needs to get his family to hand back some serious cash then. And he needs to refuse his income. Mmm I wonder if he’ll do that ?

Bless And they got right through to you

I wonder what his Grandma thinks about it.

Does anybody really care what these two attention seeking people say.

We should start by doing away with hereditary titles and wealth.

Is he advocating Queen giving up being head of state for some Commonwealth countries, since this is a legacy from its' colonial past?

If she was just a little bit of a better actress, we wouldn't have to deal with this nightmare.

'Get Woke Go Broke' The Stupid Prince

Not interested in anything they have to say.

The Commonwealth? Surely it is the UK which must acknowledge the past.

good for them this is true

Harry and whats her face must understand...NO ONE CARES what they think.

Finally , now will reparations be made for British colonialism, genocide, slavery, he opium wars, their ostentatious wealth resulting in misery and death is untold. Harry has guts to stand up to the myth of royalty.

That past is providing them with constant supply of money. Acknowledge the past but keep the money, they're saying...

So harry should start returning all the money n precious things that his great great great grandmother, great great grandfather, great grandfather stole n start to individually apologize to billions living in developing countries of asia, africa n latin america. Thatll be a start

I was ready to criticize them but half through the article I thought their speeches weren't half as bad until Harry talked about 'endemic” institutionalised racism'🙄It's true that the Commonwealth must face the past but it's come so far from it was&THAT MUST be acknowledged, too

I thought they went away? No fair, they promised.

Признать - да, должны, но нельзя все время бередить эту рану. Кстати по поводу рабства, прочитайте рассказ Фолкнера 'Красные листья'.

As if anyone cares about what they say 🙄

when are we going to see the back of these people, they do nothing but lecture us

We’ve all done it.

Quite simple. It’s absolutely none of their business. They’ve traded their Senior Royal status to which Harry was born in to 4 a celebrity lifestyle in LA so jog on!

Speaking as individuals they can say as wish... Freedom of speech. Otherwise, doesn't make sense to dictate what Commonwealth 'MUST' do....

The Palace must rue the day that Meghxit were made Prez and VP of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust. Perfect vehicle for the two of them to put back Commonwealth relations decades!

Also the child abuse of indugenes children in all Commonwelth countrys!!

What hypocrites..

Harry and Meghan, the Commonwealth has acknowledged and lived the past for the last 400 years. You can't escape history. Prayers for our leaders Courage2020 Fortitude Mercy Compassion Gentleness Kindness ItMattersWhatYouDo YouMatter

...”the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust (QCT), of which Harry and Meghan are president and vice-president respectively” - says the article. May i ask: on which merits (special values/contribution) since they strive so much for equality?!

Who will get the reparations? Who will pay? The government, ie us the people? If its us then fuck hell no! I aint giving my money to no one, l didn’t rob anyone.

Might be helpful if it was said by someone the British people respect.

Please concern yourselves with things you actually understand like celebrity gossip, trends, crap entertainment and leave the thinking to those who can. Enjoy your privileged and vapid lives in California and bugger off.

Prince Harry is more progressive and relevant than Williams whose only interest is to become the British monarch

Virtue signal man here Commonwealth tell them to to get bent. Virtue signal man awwwaaaayyy

Woke cultists.

Nobody cares what Meger and what’s his name have to say.

Proverbs 24:20 slavery

That represents the first form of 'Globalisation'...British theft and exploitation at a Global scale.

Why are these publicity hungry celebrities invading their own privacy on a daily basis on complex matters they add nothing to?

This is most obvious and minimum thing to say, but this would be a catastrophe for the british royal cartel

I’m not gonna listen to some American bitch actress lecture me on the Commonwealth. Nice try at undermining national pride though 👍

I will repeat ... and continue to repeat. This two souls, complained and abandoned their duties and the british people .. for 'privacy' . But every time they can,they show up to lecture/preach us from their california mansion . Please go away enjoy your privacy

Muito semelhante?

You mean that irrelevant couple who abdicated their responsibilities and ran away?

Diana would be proud.

They are both right.....

Clones

And the inherited money from the past that they live on and gain a platform from?

The bandwagon full up for now stay there for the next one.

Harry & TransMegan are no more .. gone, THE END.

YOU DISOWNED YOU FAMILY

Why God why? Why these two?

I thought they abandoned their royal duties and ran away to Canada to avoid media spotlight. And in the very next scene ...

Defund the royal family

Are the royal family going to pay reparations? He lives off money made from the past.

Revenge from the queen.. nice move..

That has been done. It is in the past, lessons were learned. Move on.

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