If you’ve been reading the site for a while, you’ll know that my regard for the Royal Family and its sycophants is virtually non-existent, unless one of them is going up against Piers Morgan, in which case the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

Today, however, I will not be poking fun at Meghan, or Harry, or the rest of them, because to do so would be to make light of a devastating situation.

It’s impossible and irresponsible to ignore the massive protests and riots taking place in America at the moment.

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, was asked a while back to give a speech to the graduating class of 2020 at her old high school, Immaculate Heart in Los Angeles.

The pandemic made it impossible for her to give that speech in person, and the George Floyd/#BlackLivesMatter protests have made it impossible for her to simply dish out the usual platitudes.

BuzzFeed with more:

Meghan Markle…delivered a graduation speech to her old school, Immaculate Heart High School and Middle School in Los Angeles, that addressed the current protests against racism and police brutality in the United States and her own history as a biracial woman growing up in California.

Her speech, in full, here:

As Meghan put it:

“I wanted to say the right thing. And I was really nervous that I wouldn’t, or that it would get picked apart, and I realized — the only wrong thing to say is to say nothing.

“Because George Floyd’s life mattered, and Breonna Taylor’s life mattered, and Philando Castile’s life mattered, and Tamir Rice’s life mattered, and so did so many other people whose names we know and whose names we don’t know. Stephon Clark. His life mattered.”

She also recalls a protest that happened in Los Angeles when she was young:

“I remember the curfew and I remember rushing back home and on that drive home seeing ash fall from the sky and smelling the smoke — and seeing the smoke billow out of buildings and seeing people run out buildings and looting and seeing men in the back of the van just holding guns and rifles.”

She concluded with some words of hope:

“You are equipped, you are ready, we need you, and you’re prepared.”

Powerful stuff, in trying times.

[source:buzzfeed]