Viraldice: Princess Michael of Kent Just Wore This Outrageously Offensive Piece of Jewelry To Meet Meghan Markle

here's a memorable episode in the second season of Master of None where the titular hero Dev (played by Aziz Ansari) is about to sleep with his love interest of the episode, Christine. As the pair are about to engage in the deed, Christine asks Dev to grab a condom from the figurine on her dresser. Dev reaches over, only to be confronted with a mammy doll – one of those dark and heavyset racist caricatures of black women who once cared for white families.

wait

did Dev really smash this white girl who had a ceramic mammy condom jar?

a ceramic mammy condom jar.....

😒

(master of none s2 e4) http://pic.twitter.com/cwYAiYM3sW

— ☽zaynab shahar ☾ (@atypewritersing) May 28, 2017

When Dev tells Christine that the figurine is racist, she seems shocked. “No one else has ever been offended by it,” she says. Questioned further, she reveals that she’s never had a person of color in her bedroom, which, of course, makes perfect sense.

The American (and European) appetite for this type of casual, insidious racism is so large, famed design duo Dolce and Gabbana once sent an entire collection of racist clothing down the runway, the highlight of which were a pair of mammy earrings that had non-white supremacist minded people everywhere howling in outrage.

For hundreds of years, mammy dolls, and their contemporaries, golliwogs and blackamoors, have fetishized the worst romanticisms of racists. That of the black servant or slave – clumsy, big lipped and stupid, only there to attend to the needs of their masters.

The image of the "magical negro" or the "mammy" figure who rescues white people in their time of distress is a very old racist trope that celebrates Black people for being able to save "whiteness" from its self-destructive impulses http://pic.twitter.com/FCe9PW92gK

— Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) December 13, 2017

While America is often the site of this type of questionable behavior, our neighbor across the pond, England, is no stranger to racial issues either. After all, this is the country that brutally colonized and subjugated other countries for hundreds of years.

Now that England has newly acquired a half-black princess, former suits actress Meghan Markle, the potential for racial gaffes has exponentially exploded.