This article actually ties things together in a weird way for me. Mr. Hari contends that the UK should be ashamed for judging someone in a positive light (The Windsors) based on circumstance of birth; while here in America, Our President has been judged harshly based on the circumstance of his birth.
And get this, the author calls himself a Republican (UK) and I believe him. Why can't OUR Republicans make this kind of sense?
"In most countries, parents can tell their kids that if they work hard and do everything right, they could grow up to be the head of state and symbol of their nation. Not us. Our head of state is decided by one factor, and one factor alone: did he pass through the womb of one aristocratic Windsor woman living in a golden palace? The US head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?"
In the U.S., some Whites would most likely say, The Grass Is Always Greener. Some Blacks would refer to this as WPP, or White People Problems. Stay with me now, it gets deeper.
No, it's not the biggest problem we have. But it does have a subtly deforming effect on Britain's character that the ultimate symbol of our country, our sovereign, is picked on the most snobbish criteria of all: darling, do you know who his father was? Kids in Britain grow up knowing that we all bow and curtsy in front of a person simply because of their unearned, uninteresting bloodline. This snobbery subtly soaks out through the society, tweaking us to be deferential to unearned and talentless wealth, simply because it's there.
Meanwhile in America, Our President is constantly disparaged and disrespected because of What Race his father was.
We live with a weird cognitive dissonance in Britain. We are always saying we should be a meritocracy, but we shriek in horror at the idea that we should pick our head of state on merit. Earlier this month, David Cameron lamented that too many people in Britain get ahead because of who their parents are. A few minutes later, without missing a beat, he praised the monarchy as the best of British. Nobody laughed.
What this article has shown me is this: Americans, we're trailing behind England, who we broke from! We need to settle this racism crap and get going on the Class War (already in progress)!
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