A quarter century ago, I actually WAS concerned about the color of my mixed race (Asian-white) baby before she was born. My ex and I were grad students on a budget and I knew most of her baby clothes would be gifts or hand-me-downs. Imho the shade of pink that is so popular for girls’s baby clothes in the US looks horrible on olive skin tones. It seems designed to look good on babies with pale pinkish skin and blond hair. So when a baby shower was planned and I was asked for feedback, I requested NO PINK bc we weren’t sure what color the baby would be. No one called me racist. We got a lot of yellow which looked great on her (and still does). And she looks great in pink too, so long as it isn’t baby pink.
[Sir Kenneth Olisa] has previously revealed in the aftermath of the Oprah interview that a similar conversation was had in his family. An innocent relative had wanted to knit some new baby clothes that would complement the mixed-race child's skin tone.
But he was clear: 'Absolutely no offence was intended or taken'. Writing for the Mail he said: 'My wife Julia and I were asked exactly the same question — in a spirit of benign interest — by my mother-in-law Muriel shortly before the first of our two daughters was born in 1980.
'I should point out here that, like Meghan and Harry, I am black and Julia is white.
'My late mother-in-law, excited about the arrival of her first grandchild, was getting her knitting needles out and simply wanted to know what colour baby clothes would suit the newborn’s complexion.
'She asked in much the same way that any of us might wonder: will the baby have her mother’s hair or her father’s nose? Absolutely no offence was intended or taken.
'The context of that conversation was a loving family, its intent to resolve the question of buying wool — which goes to show that unless you know both context and intent of what people say, you must keep an open mind'.
Yes. More and more people in mixed race families are speaking out and providing their say on this topic. By and large, it's the same thing: Curiosity is normal. Harry and Meghan refusing to provide specifics tells us everything.
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A quarter century ago, I actually WAS concerned about the color of my mixed race (Asian-white) baby before she was born. My ex and I were grad students on a budget and I knew most of her baby clothes would be gifts or hand-me-downs. Imho the shade of pink that is so popular for girls’s baby clothes in the US looks horrible on olive skin tones. It seems designed to look good on babies with pale pinkish skin and blond hair. So when a baby shower was planned and I was asked for feedback, I requested NO PINK bc we weren’t sure what color the baby would be. No one called me racist. We got a lot of yellow which looked great on her (and still does). And she looks great in pink too, so long as it isn’t baby pink.
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[Sir Kenneth Olisa] has previously revealed in the aftermath of the Oprah interview that a similar conversation was had in his family. An innocent relative had wanted to knit some new baby clothes that would complement the mixed-race child's skin tone.
But he was clear: 'Absolutely no offence was intended or taken'. Writing for the Mail he said: 'My wife Julia and I were asked exactly the same question — in a spirit of benign interest — by my mother-in-law Muriel shortly before the first of our two daughters was born in 1980.
'I should point out here that, like Meghan and Harry, I am black and Julia is white.
'My late mother-in-law, excited about the arrival of her first grandchild, was getting her knitting needles out and simply wanted to know what colour baby clothes would suit the newborn’s complexion.
'She asked in much the same way that any of us might wonder: will the baby have her mother’s hair or her father’s nose? Absolutely no offence was intended or taken.
'The context of that conversation was a loving family, its intent to resolve the question of buying wool — which goes to show that unless you know both context and intent of what people say, you must keep an open mind'.
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12822511/Sir-Kenneth-Olisa-racist-royals.html
Yes. More and more people in mixed race families are speaking out and providing their say on this topic. By and large, it's the same thing: Curiosity is normal. Harry and Meghan refusing to provide specifics tells us everything.