The late Queen's lady-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey has apologised and resigned after she repeatedly asked a black British charity boss where she was really from.

Ngozi Fulani, a charity founder, was questioned about her background at the charity event at the palace on Tuesday.

Ms Fulani, said she was "totally stunned" by Prince William's godmother's comments.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-63810468

She worded the question poorly by the sounds of it.

 

Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what she meant. Vilifying an 83 year old woman for not being fluent in Woke is really low behaviour, but perfectly in keeping with the proponents of cancel culture and the perpetually offended.

 

Still, it could earn Ms. Fulani a spot on Harry's wife's next podcast series, assuming Spotify are stupid enough to keep it going.

I didn't know the Queen had 'ladies in waiting' with dreadlocks!

Looking good for 83 years old though.

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I'm asked this question almost everyday in LOS.  I am not caucasian so when I say I am from the USA then I get the "where you really from?".  Is that racist?  If so should I be offended and demand racial justice?  

2 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

I'm asked this question almost everyday in LOS.  I am not caucasian so when I say I am from the USA then I get the "where you really from?".  Is that racist?  If so should I be offended and demand racial justice?  

No. Just a punch in the teeth should clarify things for the curious.

3 minutes ago, sqwakvfr said:

I'm asked this question almost everyday in LOS.  I am not caucasian so when I say I am from the USA then I get the "where you really from?".  Is that racist?  If so should I be offended and demand racial justice?  

It's fine if they're Thai. Forgive them. They didn't mean anything by it.

 

It's only "really" racist when white people do it. Then they need to be vilified. Cancelled. Strung up if possible. 

10 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

She worded the question poorly by the sounds of it.

 

Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what she meant. Vilifying an 83 year old woman for not being fluent in Woke is really low behaviour, but perfectly in keeping with the proponents of cancel culture and the perpetually offended.

 

Still, it could earn Ms. Fulani a spot on Harry's wife's next podcast series, assuming Spotify are stupid enough to keep it going.

I am not sure that anyone is vilifying her, however the transcription of the conversation is pretty shocking - by the sounds of it, this woman reeks of entitlement and privilege. I would imagine her feelings towards you and I are not significantly different to her feelings towards Ms Fulani. 

 

But as you say, she is 83; age doesn't prevent her from being an unpleasant person but it does make her increasingly irrelevant. 

 

8 hours ago, Scott said:

The late Queen's lady-in-waiting Lady Susan Hussey has apologised and resigned

Good. 

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5 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

I am not sure that anyone is vilifying her

I take it you are not on Twitter?

 

 

One of thousands.... Many worse than that.

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Good. 

Wow. Gleeful at the downfall of an 83 year old woman for using the wrong terminology. 

 

#bekind

Just now, JonnyF said:

I take it you are not on Twitter?

 

 

One of thousands.... Many worse than that.

Without wishing to sound ageist, I imagine Lady whatshername isn't on Twitter either. 

The sad thing is that if she was on Twitter, I imagine she would be utterly bewildered by the upset she has caused.  The opposite of being woke is being asleep.

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Without wishing to sound ageist, I imagine Lady whatshername isn't on Twitter either. 

The sad thing is that if she was on Twitter, I imagine she would be utterly bewildered by the upset she has caused.  The opposite of being woke is being asleep.

Of course she would be bewildered. She is an old lady who was enquiring about someone's heritage and used the wrong terminology. Now the Woke mob are celebrating her downfall having attacked her like a pack of Hyenas. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Wow. Gleeful at the downfall of an 83 year old woman for using the wrong terminology. 

 

#bekind

Did you actually read the transcript? It wasn't a misused word we are discussing. She was massively offensive in her relentless probing of a British born woman, seemingly determined to to force the woman to say that she is not anglo-saxon.

8 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Wow. Gleeful at the downfall of an 83 year old woman for using the wrong terminology. 

 

#bekind

Gleeful?

 

Where do you get that from?

 

A person repeatedly pursuing a racist line of questioning has resigned from a fairly prominent role and will no longer be in a position to abuse those doing charity work.

hussey was told by the charity worker that she was British by birth, but hussey refused to accept this and continued her line of questioning. 
 

It is good such a person resigned. 
 

#noplaceforracists

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1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Of course she would be bewildered. She is an old lady who was enquiring about someone's heritage and used the wrong terminology. Now the Woke mob are celebrating her downfall having attacked her like a pack of Hyenas. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

Are you suggesgting that one cannot be old and sharp as a tack? If she is still hosting royal events (and why is she still there?) then I don't think she is some dottery old bird who doesn't know what century she is in. 

More likely, she has lived a life of utter privilege and patronage; she is a racist in the Alf Garnett mould. 

30 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

She worded the question poorly by the sounds of it.

 

Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what she meant. Vilifying an 83 year old woman for not being fluent in Woke is really low behaviour, but perfectly in keeping with the proponents of cancel culture and the perpetually offended.

 

Still, it could earn Ms. Fulani a spot on Harry's wife's next podcast series, assuming Spotify are stupid enough to keep it going.

"Anyone with a bit of common sense knows what she meant" - exactly right

Repeatedly asking someone where do they come from really is because she does not believe that someone who is black can identify as British - no matter how long they have been there, their nationality status or for how many generations is just racist - that is exactly what she meant

 

So where do you come from JonnyF - are you Thai - if not where do you come from and why do you not go back there?

15 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I take it you are not on Twitter?

 

 

One of thousands.... Many worse than that.

Only to be expected from the twitterati. Sad, pathetic individuals attacking people from the safety of their keyboards.

Just now, Bluespunk said:

Gleeful?

 

Where do you get that from?

 

A person repeatedly pursuing a racist line of questioning has resigned from a fairly prominent role and will no longer be in a position to abuse those doing charity work.

hussey was told by the charity worker that she was British by birth, but hussey refused to accept this and continued her line of questioning. 
 

It is good such a person resigned. 

Of course you are gleeful. When learning of her fate you simply remarked "Good". Can't be more obvious than that.  

 

By the way, it is possible to be British by birth but your family heritage is from somewhere else. It was already established that she was born in Britain. Lady Hussey was obviously asking where her family originated from before coming to Britain. It can be an interesting conversation starter, I remember asking the same thing of a Fijian Australian that was I working on a project with in BKK. He told me his family originated from Fiji, I remarked that I'd visited there for a month while backpacking and loved the place. We then went out to Nana and got wasted, had a great night and worked well on the project after that.

 

But then, he knew what I was asking and wasn't looking for leverage by being mortally offended by my perfectly innocent question. 

11 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Of course she would be bewildered. She is an old lady who was enquiring about someone's heritage and used the wrong terminology. Now the Woke mob are celebrating her downfall having attacked her like a pack of Hyenas. Absolutely disgusting behaviour.

Hyenas is a bit polite.

1 minute ago, JonnyF said:

Of course you are gleeful. When learning of her fate you simply remarked "Good". Can't be more obvious than that.  

 

By the way, it is possible to be British by birth but your family heritage is from somewhere else. It was already established that she was born in Britain. Lady Hussey was obviously asking where her family originated from before coming to Britain. It can be an interesting conversation starter, I remember asking the same thing of a Fijian Australian that was I working on a project with in BKK. He told me his family originated from Fiji, I remarked that I'd visited there for a month while backpacking and loved the place. We then went out to Nana and got wasted, had a great night and worked well on the project after that.

 

But then, he knew what I was asking and wasn't looking for leverage by being mortally offended by my perfectly innocent question. 

Sadly we live in an age where sad pathetic individuals can be offended by almost anything at all.

1 minute ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Sadly we live in an age where sad pathetic individuals can be offended by almost anything at all.

Sadly we live in an age where people still think racism is acceptable.

5 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

Are you suggesgting that one cannot be old and sharp as a tack? If she is still hosting royal events (and why is she still there?) then I don't think she is some dottery old bird who doesn't know what century she is in. 

More likely, she has lived a life of utter privilege and patronage; she is a racist in the Alf Garnett mould. 

I would suggest she is very priviliged and old fashioned. Probably uses outdated terminology having been raised in a different era.

 

It seemed to me she was genuinely interested in the woman's heritage and used the wrong words. Let's face it, it changes every 5 minutes. When I was a kid saying someone was black was wrong, you had to say coloured. Now coloured person is wrong, but black is fine and person of colour is fine. It's not easy to keep up at the best of times, especially if you don't hang around the Wokerati or prefer not to participate in their changing/attempts to own the language.

4 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Sadly we live in an age where people still think racism is acceptable.

It's not racist to ask about someone's heritage.

 

Do you get offended every time a Thai asks where you are from? I mean, how dare they assume you are not Thai just because you are a Farang. How dare they. 

3 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

I would suggest she is very priviliged and old fashioned. Probably uses outdated terminology having been raised in a different era.

 

It seemed to me she was genuinely interested in the woman's heritage and used the wrong words. Let's face it, it changes every 5 minutes. When I was a kid saying someone was black was wrong, you had to say coloured. Now coloured person is wrong, but black is fine and person of colour is fine. It's not easy to keep up at the best of times, especially if you don't hang around the Wokerati or prefer not to participate in their changing/attempts to own the language.

Racism was never in date.

9 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Of course you are gleeful. When learning of her fate you simply remarked "Good". Can't be more obvious than that.  

Nope, meant it was good, right and proper she was removed from her prominent role.

 

10 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

By the way, it is possible to be British by birth but your family heritage is from somewhere else. It was already established that she was born in Britain. Lady Hussey was obviously asking where her family originated from before coming to Britain.

Nonsense, as the transcript of the conversation shows...

Just now, ozimoron said:

Racism was never in date.

Just repeating the word Racism doesn't mean you win the argument. ????

 

I repeat, asking about someone's heritage is not racist.

Just now, JonnyF said:

Just repeating the word Racism doesn't mean you win the argument. ????

 

I repeat, asking about someone's heritage is not racist.

Right, but she didn't ask about heritage, did she?

1 minute ago, ozimoron said:

Right, but she didn't ask about heritage, did she?

She asked where she was from.

 

How is that racist?

 

Thais ask me where I am from all the time. If I said I was born in Bangkok to farang parents, they'd ask me where I/they came from originally. It's normal, since my heritage is obviously not Thai.

3 minutes ago, ozimoron said:

Right, but she didn't ask about heritage, did she?

She asked where her ancestors came from. Why is that racist?

Just now, JonnyF said:

She asked where her ancestors came from. Why is that racist?

It's racist because the woke say so.