# Markle madness

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## Metadata
- Author: [[Zeeshan Aleem]]
- Full Title: Markle madness
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://zeeshanaleem.substack.com/p/markle-racism-diversity-royal-buckingham

## Highlights
- Markle’s crystallized for me the way that the use of “representation” often involves a sleight of hand by conflating two meanings of the word — representation as depiction, and representation as acting on behalf of someone.
- When a fetish for diversity optics is divorced from any analysis of material power, institutional context, or geographical relations, it can lead to people saying things that don’t make a lot of sense.
- But we’ve tilted so far in the direction of leaning on symbolism that it’s safe to say a lot of people have lost the plot: the actual distribution of power. Settling constantly for metaphors for change is beginning making fools of all of us.
- If one is serious about egalitarianism, don’t angle to give the monarchy a make-over — abolish it. And if one is serious about antiracism, then one must get involved in the work of building popular power to put an end to the history, institutions and material exploitation that breathe life into racism every day.