rogerb wrote:I wonder whether anyone speculated on the colour of the babies hair !
Speculation is part of humanity.
As a ginge married to a Chinese, I agree totally, and find such speculation entirely normal. We have often discussed what skin colour are kids would be, eye shape, hair colour etc etc. None of this is racism. No more than wondering whether the baby will be a boy or girl is sexism.
That, of course, doesn't mean racism couldn't have been at play here, but even then there is a wide range from deliberately outright nasty to completely unintentional, and everything in between.
When I was living in Hong Kong, as a minority I experienced occasional racism. As does my wife here. Nearly always, it is unintentional and harmless. In my opinion, the best way to treat it is to rise above it, and never to respond in kind. The best way to minimise racism is education, and you do that by your behaviour. People fear what they don't understand, and when they see that it isn't the colour of your skin that determines whether you are a good person, they respond to you as a person and stop even seeing the colour. Eventually, hopefully, people come to treasure the differences rather than decry them.
The problem with playing the racism card is it rarely, if ever, ends well. It does more to increase racial tensions than it does to relieve them. In my own personal opinion, there is almost no situation in which you should scream racism. When it wasn't intended, it is an unnecessary response, and when it was intended it is far better to respond with dignity or move away. It is a bit like a nuclear weapon - there is almost no real world scenario when a wise person will actually deploy one.
Meghan and Harry will almost certainly come to regret their decision. Of course, wisdom comes with experience, and experience usually comes from making mistakes.
My hope here is that the Palace shows the wisdom to rise above this one. The best response from where I sit is no response at all. Anything else will almost certainly be a lose / lose.