Tonya Russell: The royal family seems to have a distorted sense of reality in which they deserve to pat themselves on the back for their ability to rule in countries that didn’t need their guidance. - NBCNewsTHINK
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, speaks at the United Nations General Assembly on Nelson Mandela International Day on Monday in New York.The first Nelson Mandela International Day held at the United Nations General Assembly was in 2010. I get that this event happens annually and, 12 years in, the list of speaker options may have dwindled. But how the U.N. concluded that the best choice for the keynote address in 2022 was Prince Harry is head-scratching.
The royal family seems to have a distorted sense of reality in which they deserve to pat themselves on the back for their ability to rule in countries that didn’t need their guidance.In his speech marking the occasion Monday, Harry recalled the meeting his mother, Princess Diana, held with Mandela in Cape Town in 1997, when he was 12, and noted that the photo of his mother and the South African president from that occasion hangs on his wall to this day.
Sarcasm aside, the inappropriateness of Harry’s selection as honored speaker doesn’t lie in his pseudo-connection but the role the country he represents played in South Africa’s history. Harry on Monday referenced Mandela’s “vision of a freer, more peaceful world” — but the U.K. never afforded its colonies that vision.the British occupied the country in the 1790s
and officially took it over in the early 1800s. After that, South Africa was under British rule for well over a century, fighting rebellions from both the Dutch-descended Afrikaners and the native Zulus. While the British were not in charge of the country's domestic affairs when the Afrikaner-dominated government established apartheid in 1948, the U.K. government’s passive stance on the issue allowed it to benefit from South Africa's resources .
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