*Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, say it’s past time for Britain to confront its “uncomfortable” racist history.
“There is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past,” said Harry alongside Meghan, during an online discussion published Monday with young Black leaders from across the British Commonwealth, which includes countries in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, per NBC News.
Prince Harry has also noted that he’s “committed to being part of the solution” when it comes to dismantling global institutional racism.
Harry is the first member of the British royal family to openly acknowledge the Black Lives Matter movement.
“My wife said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven’t done enough to right the wrongs of the past,” Harry stated during the virtual Diana Awards ceremony on what would’ve been Princess Diana’s 59th birthday, per elle.com.
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“I too am sorry—sorry that we haven’t got the world to a place you deserve it to be. Institutional racism has no place in our societies, yet it is still endemic. Unconscious bias must be acknowledged without blame to create a better world for all of you,” he added.
“Right now, we’re seeing situations around the world where division, isolation and anger are dominating as pain and trauma come to the surface,” Harry began his remarks. “But I see the greatest hope in people like you and I’m confident about the world’s future and its ability to heal because it is in your hands.”
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He went on to say… “I know that my mother has been an inspiration to many of you, and I can assure you she would have been fighting your corner. Like many of you she didn’t take the easy route or the popular one or the comfortable one. But she stood for something and she stood up for people who needed it,” he continued. Harry himself vowed to be “part of the change that you are all leading. Now is the time, and we know that you can do it.”
Harry and Meghan have been vocal about the issue of racism since the police killing of George Floyd in May.
“We’re going to have to be a little uncomfortable right now, because it’s only in pushing through that discomfort that we get to the other side of this,” Meghan said during the online meeting. The conversation featured social justice advocates from the Bahamas, U.K. and Australia.
“There is no turning back now, everything is coming to a head,” Harry said. “Solutions exist and change is happening far quicker than it ever has done before.”
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