The kneejerk denial of Meghan’s claims would not happen if the industry was open, honest and truly diverse
A few years ago, on the day singer Tom Jones revealed he may have Black ancestry, the Daily Mail’s chief cartoonist, Mac, went to work. How did he depict this Black lineage? With a couple of tribal figures, in the jungle: one a topless mother with a baby at her breast; the other a spear-carrying “savage” with three human heads dangling in front of him.
It was the most clearly racist depiction of Black people one could possibly imagine. It went in the next day’s paper.
