So hearing Meghan Markle frame the questions about her son’s skin
colour – however innocently intended – as racist ‘concern’ rather than
harmless imagination made my skin crawl.
CANDACE OWENS: Unlike so many of my fellow Americans, I don't
buy Meghan Markle's 'truths' about racist Britain
What colour do you think his skin will be – lighter or darker?’
I cannot tell you how many times I was asked that question while I was
pregnant with my son last year.
It came from not only my sisters, who are fully black and darker than I am,
but also from my husband and from me as we day-dreamed about what our
beautiful boy would look like. ‘What colour do think his eyes will be?’ we’d
enquire aloud. ‘Will his hair be darker or lighter?’
If it needs spelling out, no, I am not a racist black American, nor is the man
who happened to marry me a racist Englishman.
Instead, we are parents, as my sisters were future-aunts, beyond excited to
imagine who our bi-racial, multicultural child would look like.
Meghan’s race, which is not to my eyes even immediately discernible, was
never at the centre of any piece criticising her.
That race would become a tool to deflect criticism of Harry and Meghan was,
in my view, inevitable. In fact, I predicted just as much in these pages
BEFORE the interview.
I also predicted that Meghan would explicitly present herself as a black
woman just finding her voice.
It’s certainly worked, obscuring an attempt by Oprah – the only winner in
this train wreck – to help her friends be better received across the Atlantic
than they were in the UK. And, of course, in America, race sells.
It’s just that I’m not buying it.
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