With a caricature, Charlie Hebdo struggles with the swelling scandal of the British royal family. It was triggered by her separation of members Harry and Meghan, who lived in the United States at the time, when they complained about racism in the royal family in an interview with American television CBS.
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French magazine Charlie Hebdo mocks George Floyd’s murder and Meghan’s racism concerns. The cover reads: ‘Why Meghan left Buckingham Palace’, ‘Because I couldn’t breathe’. pic.twitter.com/3Fuj789xn7
— Nadine White (@Nadine_Writes) March 13, 2021
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The most shocking statement was that in the royal family, before Meghan’s son Archie was born, they were interested in “how dark the skin” the child would be. Meghan is a mulatto and therefore falls into the category of people who have recently been called the “people of color” (literally people of color), which is difficult to translate into Czech, in English-speaking countries.
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Any mentions of skin color are therefore extremely sensitive in her case and in the case of their children. Especially in North America.
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Scandal on both banks
However, Charlie Hebdo, who became world-famous through the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad, was not intimidated by the sensitivity of the subject. On the contrary. British Queen Elizabeth II. he looked completely white with an angry expression and distinctly hairy legs, and Meghan a deep brown and suffocating.
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“Why did Meghan leave Buckingham Palace? I couldn’t breathe there anymore, “is accompanied by another textual allusion to last year’s case of the murder of a black man Floyd in Minneapolis.
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The conversation, which Prince Harry and Meghan gave, stirred the waters on both sides of the Atlantic. While the United States tackles alleged racism in particular, in the United Kingdom they eagerly await the British royal family’s approach.
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So far, only Harry’s older brother, Prince William, has spoken out, saying that the royal family is not racist.
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In 2015, Charlie Hebdo was the target of an attack by radical Islamists, who murdered eleven people after the magazine published controversial comics featuring the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. Last year, Charlie Hebdo reprinted cartoons of Muhammad in his magazine.
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French society places great emphasis on secularism, and according to some residents, Charlie Hebdo is an important symbol of the separation of state and church. However, many critics claim that the content of the magazine is provocative and does not take into account the problems faced by members of minorities.
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