Indigenous leader Jacinta Price unloads on ‘privileged’ Meghan Markle for spreading the ‘false narrative’ of the Black Lives Matter movement
- Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed Mgehan Markle
- It comes after Markle and Prince Harry filmed a video talking about racism
- Ms Price said BLM supporters only tend to care when the perpetrator is white
- She said Markle is of 'great privilege' and 'completely removed from reality'
Indigenous leader Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed 'privileged' Meghan Markle for spreading a 'false narrative' of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Alice Springs councillor called out the Suits star after she and Prince Harry filmed a video encouraging people to be 'a little uncomfortable' when tackling racism.
'Black Lives Matter continues to push a false narrative. There are a lot of people with a lot of goodwill who think by jumping on the bandwagon they are supporting Aboriginal Australians, but they are doing the exact opposite,' Ms Price told the Daily Telegraph.
Indigenous leader Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has slammed Meghan Markle for spreading a 'false narrative' of the Black Lives Matter movement
Just weeks after her relative was bashed into a coma by her indigenous boyfriend, Ms Price said Black Lives Matter supporters only tend to care when the perpetrator is white.
'There is no interest in learning the truth. Aboriginal people are dying at a far greater rate at the hands of other Aboriginal people - that is something this movement is not interested in,' she said.
Ms Price described Markle as a 'woman of great privilege' who is 'completely removed from reality and circumstances on the ground'.
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'Her lending her voice to the Black Lives Matter movement is silencing the voices of those people in the communities who are vulnerable to black-on-black crime,' she said.
Ms Price said said several of her family members have been murdered, including one woman who was stabbed to death by her ex-boyfriend a decade ago.
Since the alleged murder of African-American father George Floyd at the hands of a cop in Minnesota, Black Lives Matter supporters have been calling for police to be defunded.
The Alice Springs councillor said Black Lives Matter supporters only tend to care when the perpetrator is white
But Ms Price said the push is 'ridiculous' when the 'most vulnerable members of society' are African-Americans.
She said that here in Australia, indigenous women and children who are suffering sexual abuse and family violence, need the support of police and authorities.
Black Lives Matter protests swept the U.S. and Australia in June, but Ms Price said the movement has actually created a 'racial divide' in our nation.
Prince Harry, 35, and Markle, 38, filmed the video earlier this month from their $11million California mansion during a call with young leaders from the Queen's Commonwealth Trust.
As part of the discussion on 'justice and equal rights', Harry said the Commonwealth needs to follow others who have 'acknowledged the past' and are 'trying to right their wrongs', and also admitted to having his own 'unconscious bias'.
Meanwhile Meghan said it is also a time of 'reckoning' when individuals should be putting their hands up to 'own' their past wrongdoings.
Prince Harry, 35, and Markle, 38, filmed the video earlier this month from their $11million California mansion during a call with young leaders from the Queen's Commonwealth Trust
