British tabloids found a new face for their anti-Meghan Sussex campaign this week. Soul singer, TV host, and MBE recipient Mica Paris, who admits she has never met the Duchess, told the Daily Mail that Meghan’s talk of royal racism ‘perpetuates hate’ and that she should ‘let it go.‘ Paris praised Prince Harry as “a lovely guy” but claimed the Royal Family is not racist “from what I have experienced.” The remark reignites a smear playbook that recruits Black voices to downplay bias against another Black woman. Media scholars call the tactic racism laundering, and it thrives when celebrity soundbites replace lived experience.
I’ve never met Meghan, but I don’t agree with her that the Royal Family is racist – not from what I have experienced” … “We have to get to a point where we stop moaning. Don’t moan. I wake up every morning, and I’m so grateful to be here” … “I don’t know if it’s helpful to call out people that you think are racist. You’re perpetuating that hate. Let it go” … “People are going through hell. You’ve got a limo outside, a nice house, and you’re whingeing? No, mate” … “But if, like Meghan, you sit there and you keep saying, ‘Woe is me, woe is me!,’ where’s the healing? You’re just picking at the wound.” –
Mica Paris
When Opinion Replaces Experience
Paris bases her verdict on brief encounters with Prince Harry, yet she positions that limited contact as proof that Meghan’s claims must be false. She ignores established evidence of racially charged coverage of Meghan Sussex, including the biracial baby skin tone “concerns” Meghan revealed in her 2021 Oprah interview. It must be noted that wealth and title do not cancel racism. Paris also suggests Meghan keeps “moaning,” even though the Duchess has given no new television interview on the subject for four years. The tabloid framing, not Meghan’s voice, drags the issue back into headlines. Paris’s quotes fit the pattern: minimisation of bias, a call for silence, and a moral judgment that Black women should be grateful rather than vocal.
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How Racism Laundering Shields Power
Writer Nels Abbey, in a widely shared Guardian column, defined racism laundering as the strategic use of minority voices to legitimize prejudice and silence criticism, an idea captured powerfully in the following quote.
Paris’s comments serve that purpose. Her celebrity status lets the Mail package a harsh message in a Black wrapper, muting charges of bigotry while pleasing readers who resent Meghan. Respectability politics, which tells a marginalized woman to stop ‘whingeing’ and appreciate her limo, keeps the Royal Family’s image polished at the cost of honest dialogue about structural bias. The tactic is old, but audiences now spot it faster. People have called Paris’s remarks a “disgrace” and an act of “silencing a marginalized voice.” Their swift pushback shows the hate campaign still churns, yet many readers no longer mistake laundered prejudice for truth.
Meghan Sussex’s story has never hinged on strangers’ approval. It rests on documented slurs, tabloid eugenics headlines, and security decisions that put her family at risk. When outlets mine Black celebrities for condemnation, they expose their own desperation more than any fault in the Duchess. The smear machine rolls on, but its tricks look cheaper each time.
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Well , you don’t have to be Einstein to see what type of person Paris is, when her interview is given to the most racist tabloid in Britain. IT appears t be a pattern when racism is called t then 7et the token black person who wi tell them there’s none in Britain. In 2020 the Race Equality LBQT was asked by boris Johnson (then prime minister)to carry out an investigation on racism in the uk. The results were that there was racism and that the UK should be used as a blueprint for other countries to follow . In 2024 we had a race riot and only a few week ago in Ireland immigrants were being burnt out of their homes, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the head of the race equality got a knighthood out of it. We had a conservative donor last year when giving a speech ,said a black MP made him want to hate all black women and while black and white people were saying it was racist out they pull nana akuai who appear on tv to say it wasn’t and that the MP was mad. I’m so fed up of these people who believes what, that racist hates other black people, but NOT THEM????
Exactly! Just another house token who’s tied her entire life to white proximity! We Black women don’t claim her and want her! The Royals could care less about her & strangely she has NOT been seen in ANY of their events, much less invited to the table!
Mica Paris don’t get it the Royal family is lovely to black people in public and when black people kiss up to them to the press, but as much as she loves them she’s also ignorant to the fact that they would never accept her as a member of their family, they would not allow her blackness to taint their Royal blood, so she can enjoy her little metal and a little title that they gave her for being a royal kiss up but the truth is she’s just another one standing in line to kiss up to them she means nothing to them as a black person or as a human being and she should be happy that she’s not a black member of that family because if she were, it would be quite different story
Their blackness?? What a way to describe someone.
“NELS ABBEY The media, monarchy, and other power structures use Black or brown voices to protect themselves from being called out for racism. Those voices give cover, like a human
shield, so the system doesn’t have to change.”
Nels Abbey hits the nail on the head! The British media’s racism playbook is getting old. The one-trick pony of parading tokenistic figures who accept a superficial sense of acceptance at an imagined “acceptable” table no longer resonates with Black British individuals and those in the diaspora affected by colonialism.
Many Black Brits have discussed these issues, pointing out that British society often avoids confronting its tainted history of slavery. Instead, they tend to use individuals of mixed or second-generation heritage to whitewash and perpetuate ongoing racism.
Nels Abbey is a professional race-baiter.
Correction, the Race Equality LBQT report stated THERE was NO racism in the uk.
Really disappointed with Mica. Just because she’s got her MBE doesnt mean she should be beholding to the coloniser who gave it to her. Furthermore you’ve been forgotten for quite sometime now, and here we are – just the mere mention of Maygan you know will give you some attention.
So typical of the wants-attention (piggie/hater) crew to pillory Meghan’s words about racism in the UK when Meghan’s last words about racism in the UK happened in 2021. So exactly WHO is it that perpetuating the idea? Mica.