Royal Wedding

During the recent ‘Royal Wedding’ telecast it was brought to my attention that a German Broadcaster ZDF kept harping on the newly crown Duchess’ hair and how she constantly pressed it, to get the kinks out.

Not only Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, but also Black singers who performed at her nuptials were treated with equal indignation, if not more so.

It’s not all bad because they did applaud the choir for being great singers.

Prince Harry moved up or down with his new title of Duke of Sussex, but his ears must be ringing loud from complaints that his new wife is not of pure Anglo Blood.

She is a direct descendant of King Edward III who ruled England from 1327 till 1377, according to genealogist, Gary Boyd Roberts in an Harper’s Bazaar article. That means she has Royal Pedigree thru her father Thomas Wayne Markle.

Whatever that means.

It maybe a mode used to describe a people that is void of African Blood with straight hair, light eyes and white skin.

Meghan’s mother Doria Ragland is African American and she doesn’t want to PASS for anything else, sporting her beautiful dreadlocks, tells me she’s not interested in Hot Combs and skin lighteners.

Pressing hair in the African American community is nothing new. In fact it goes back to the early days of slavery when everything African stood out as dirty or ugly, and in order to make one clean, you had to lighten up and detangle (make it un-nappy) the curls. Back then different iron objects were heated until turning red, and the hair straightening process began.

Madame CJ Walker was credited with being the first Black American Woman to join the Millionaires Club and a first with the invention of the Hot Comb, along with her special cream for Black hair, which made it soft and straight. She was very adept at marketing her products and had the best package in the Black Community, and it sold like Hot Cakes. But there were other Black inventors before her but not quite as determined.

Skin Lightener or Bleaching Cream has gone the way of the dinosaurs, especially when relating to Black Americans. It wasn’t always that way. Prior to the sixties long before James Brown was screaming Black and Proud, Bleaching was the in-thing in many Black households.

But that was then and this is now, and things are changing, as witnessed by the enormous attention heaped on the wedding of British Royalty to a Biracial Commoner, with African American bloodline.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are in the driver’s seat on their way to love and happiness forever.

MAYBE.