A Youth Leader who Took Part In A Video Phone Call With Prince Harry And Meghan Markle About Race Admitted He Was Sceptical The Conversation Was Going To Be A tick Box Exercise For The Couple But Found Them To Be warm And Engaged

A youth leader who took part in a video phone call with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle about race admitted he was sceptical the conversation was going to be a 'tick box' exercise for the couple but found them to be 'warm and engaged'.  

UK-based Mike Omoniyi, who works with The Common Sense Network, was among the young people from across the Commonwealth invited to speak to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about justice and equal rights on a video call.  
The conversation made headlines after Harry, 35, 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'. 
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'What I found was the opposite.
What I found was people who were super warm, engaged with the conversation, willing to go back and fourth and that meant a lot to the people in the conversation. 
He added later:'I was so happy someone was saying the stuff I really wished they would say, that my mum has been saying for years. This is something we should have heard years ago, it was so good to see them engaging in this way.

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Prince Harry faced criticism for his comments, which appeared to be a swipe at the British Empire, and goes against protocol of royals not wading into politics.  
Speaking from his home in Los Angeles, the royal said the Commonwealth, which is headed by his grandmother the Queen, needs to follow others who have 'acknowledged the past' and are 'trying to right their wrongs'. 
Mike told he soon found the pair 'willing to go back and thuê xe ô tô giá rẻ fourth' throughout the conversation about racial injustice 
Mike insisted that while the comments could be seen as bad for the couple's 'brand', that it was 'the right thing to do', irrespective of criticism.  
'It depends who they're speaking to', said Mike, 'Some would say this is not a good brand move. 
'But what I saw from them was rather than thinking of how it looked, what you see is a desire to confront the actual thing.

Irrespective of how it looks, it was the right thing to do.' 
The statement addressed the history of the British Empire, which was ruled over by his ancestors and led to the creation of the Commonwealth. 
Harry said: 'When you look across the Commonwealth, there is no way that we can move forward unless we acknowledge the past. 
'So many people have done such an incredible job of acknowledging the past and trying to right those wrongs, but I think we all acknowledge there is so much more still to do.' 
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