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Why Prince Harry’s Racism Claims Against His Stepmother Are Ludicrous

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I don’t spend a lot of time obsessing over Britain’s Royal Family, but I am married to a woman who was originally from a Commonwealth country, so the silliness hasn’t escaped me entirely. True, I did recently write about the oppressively dark “Vacuum Cleaner Of Doom” speech Prince Harry gave to the United Nations the other day, ostensibly in honor of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, but really in honor of Harry’s (and Meghan’s) egos.

Oh. I also wrote about Meghan’s narcissistic trip to Uvalde, Texas, where she seemed to be more in search of a photo op than an occasion to honor the bodies that were still being counted in the awfulness unfolding on the ground. So, maybe I’m more hooked than I admit.

But now we are supposed to await, with bated breath, the debut of Prince Harry’s upcoming memoir, sure to be a blockbuster account of his amazing, wonderful life of deep, spiritual purpose and do-gooding? The as yet untitled tell-all is due in late 2022.

I’m sorry (not sorry) if I sound cynical. The guy just rubs me the wrong way. He and his wife Meghan Markle seem to be a two-person wrecking crew, demeaning the longest-serving British monarch in history, Queen Elizabeth II, while their utterings sound like a woke Kamala Harris word salad whose pronunciations are “all sound and fury, signifying nothing.” (Quote borrowed from a writer named Shakespeare.)

Their latest: Prince Charles’ wife, Camilla Parker Bowles, is a racist. Why? Because she dared wonder what a child between the royal couple would look like. This is from a new biography authored by Tom Bower called, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War Between the Windsors, published in Britain on Thursday. Newsweek reports:

A new British royal family biography has alleged that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, was behind “ginger afro” remarks about Meghan and Harry’s unborn child. When Meghan later heard about the alleged remarks, she felt the remarks were “racist,” the book claims.

Oh, the horror. Someone actually speculated on what a child between the couple might look like? Arrest them immediately!

Bower wrote: “And third, according to Harry, someone speculated about what his future child would ‘look like’. In one version, Camilla remarked, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if your child had ginger Afro hair?’ Harry laughed. Subsequently, Meghan’s reaction to that conversation turned Harry’s amusement into fury.” (Emphasis mine.)

Kinda reminds you of the Will Smith-Chris Rock brouhaha at the Oscars, doesn’t it? Man finds joke pretty funny, but then goes on to pretend to be deeply insulted when his wife gives him the death stare.

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Let me tell you why this is garbage, and a sign of what our looking-to-be-outraged culture has become. I myself am the father of mixed-race kids, and guess what? Before they were born, we speculated on what they would look like. Reality check: you’d be an idiot not to wonder. It doesn’t matter what race a couple is; spouses often speculate about what their kids will look like.

I am lucky enough as a long-term white boy to be married to a beautiful Jamaican lady. Did we know what our kids would look like? No, we didn’t. Did we speculate? YES.

I’m happy to report, in a completely, unbelievably 100 percent unbiased manner, my four kids are ridiculously beautiful. Some of them have extremely curly hair, some of them don’t; one of them has a permanent gorgeous tan, the others don’t. Woot, Nature, and all that.

I used to make jokes. Would my unborn son be better at basketball than me? The NBA is currently composed of more than 74 percent African American players, so was I just being “funny,” or am I inherently racist? By the way, he turned out to be an incredible basketball player, but I’m still the better dancer, so racial stereotypes be damned.

My point is that Prince Harry sums up all that is wrong with the culture right now: those on the woke left seem to spend their time looking for reasons to be insulted or aggrieved. I think that none of this has brought races and cultures together—this obsession with searching for an insult has only furthered the divide.

I wasn’t there in the room at whatever palace this happened in; maybe Camilla Parker-Bowles said her “ginger-haired” comment with a snarky, nasty tone. Had she said, “your offspring will look like a [insert racist trope here],” I would understand.

But to imply that speculation over what the child might look like is racist is simply absurd. We can pretend reality doesn’t exist, but it does. As I mentioned, we were curious as to what our children would look like. We weren’t racist, and we are thrilled with our beautiful children.

Find somewhere else to peddle your racist theories, Harry–it won’t work here.

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