Do not pretend celebrity princess Meghan Markle can meaningfully advance the cause of racial justice | Sisonke Msimang

It's difficult to criticise the politics of someone who has been on receiving end of so much racist vitriol, but there isn't much substance to the Duchess

I'll be honest: I know nothing about the British royals. I have my plate full managing the shenanigans of my own recently coronated monarch, King Misuzulu, who heads the Zulu Nation, which means I have not paid much attention to the travails of the Markle-Windsor-Sussexes. (What even is their actual name?)

Like others, I have chuckled occasionally at Piers Morgan's weird obsession with them, and I've made fun of British people who think Markle - rather than Prince Andrew - is responsible for the demise of the royal family. As a non-British Black person from a former colony, I've basically viewed the duo as overhyped celebrities who have inherited privilege and blood money, so I've paid scant attention to their family dramas.