“When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past,” Prince Harry said. “It’s not going to be easy, and in some cases, it’s not going to be comfortable. But it needs to be done.'
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are president and vice president, respectively, of the Queen’s Commonwealth Trust—an organization that supports young leaders in the British Commonwealth. It’s a cause that, even after leaving the royal family, the couple still champions. Yet it’s also accompanied by some dark undertones: The Commonwealth, for the uninitiated, is an organization of 54 member-states that are mostly all former colonies of the British Empire.
The couple didn’t stop there. Acknowledging his own bias— “we can’t deny or ignore the fact that all of us have been educated to see the world differently”—Harry then went on to call out systemic racism: “It’s there and it stays there because someone, somewhere is benefiting from it,” he said. Meghan added her own thoughts: “It’s not just in the big moments, it’s in the quiet moments where racism and unconscious bias lies and thrives,” she said. “It makes it confusing for a lot of people to understand the role that they play in that, both passively and actively.”
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