Perspective: King Charles III’s coronation will be a site for politics
But what happens outside Westminster Abbey also matters. Royal coronations, for all of their staid and archaic traditions, can also serve as staging grounds for broader kinds of protest and political engagement.
Informed by these experiences, Valentine decided that the coronation was a prime occasion for modeling Black uplift, forging an international sisterhood and raising awareness about global racial discrimination, including the dire conditions of Blacks living under apartheid in South Africa.Valentine’s itinerary, then, did not just involve watching the queen’s passing carriage, albeit from a window inside the John Lewis department store. During her stay in the U.K.
In this way she called attention to hard truths. Corresponding with a Black woman working at an air force base in the U.K., Valentine asked about the “colour bar,” as the informal practice of racial discrimination was described in Britain. The response she received highlighted a harsh reality about racism abroad . As the woman reported: “There have never been any lynchings in England, so stated a young man with whom I was discussing the problem.
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