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When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 9:22 am
I didn't watch the Oprah interview with the x-Royal couple. But according to Harry the question was asked how the kid was going to be raised being of mixed race by someone in their close circle. If you are a bi racial couple, the obvious answer is BOTH. And I find the question odd and ignorant once one accepts that our species has always migrated and mixed.
I didn't have kids myself, but I was married to a Japanese woman. I think any sane family member of such a couple should simply shut the fuck up and support the kid.
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 1:32 pm
Actually, the answer (for this couple, at least) to the question, ‘How will your biracial child be raised?’ is ‘In an atmosphere of immense wealth, privilege and class distinction, surrounded by a veritable army of servants.’
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 2:29 pm
Why are people so bothered about having a permanant tan?
How is brown skin different to having brown hair?
People are stupid!
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm
The question was actually how dark was the baby's skin going to be. I assume the person wondered about the chances of the child/children being passed off as lily white.
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 4:55 pm
(March 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm)Dundee Wrote: (March 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The question was actually how dark was the baby's skin going to be. I assume the person wondered about the chances of the child/children being passed off as lily white.
And who asked that?
Harry won’t say who (just that it wasn’t the Queen or Phillip), but give the royal family’s track record of just-below-the-surface racism, I’m inclined to believe that the question was asked.
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 5:13 pm
(March 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The question was actually how dark was the baby's skin going to be. I assume the person wondered about the chances of the child/children being passed off as lily white.
And why would it matter, did anyone ask how dark the baby's hair would be?
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 5:49 pm
(March 9, 2021 at 4:05 pm)Dundee Wrote: (March 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The question was actually how dark was the baby's skin going to be. I assume the person wondered about the chances of the child/children being passed off as lily white.
And who asked that?
All they will say is that it was someone in the close circle of the family but was not the Queen or Prince Philip. With all the beans spilled, they kept that under wraps.
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RE: When Harry Met Family
March 9, 2021 at 5:52 pm
(March 9, 2021 at 5:13 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (March 9, 2021 at 2:32 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: The question was actually how dark was the baby's skin going to be. I assume the person wondered about the chances of the child/children being passed off as lily white.
And why would it matter, did anyone ask how dark the baby's hair would be?
My first mother-in-law said she hoped the baby I was carrying would be a boy with dark hair and brown eyes like her son. I told her I hoped she put her order in early.
Of course, I had a girl with blonde hair and hazel eyes so the mother-in-law's wishing and hoping were of little use. Daughter is still blonde so it wasn't that she was a tow-headed child whose hair darkened as she got older.
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