Prince Harry of England and his mixed race American wife

have had a baby and the question the Los Angeles Times is asking is,

quote, will Meghan Markle and Prince Harry raise their baby to be black?

Unquote.

Now you're probably thinking,

oh Andrew Cleven, you're such a funny, satirical sort of guy.

You always make me laugh out loud and you're so good looking too.

And normally I'd agree with you,

but no, this time it isn't just me trying to make American journalists sound so

race-obsessed, they're like some leftover Nazi lunatic raving in his padded cell

about the bloodline of a baby who is seventh in line to a throne with no power

in a country the size of Oregon. This is a real headline on an op-ed written by

Carla Hall who is actually on the LA Times editorial board.

Carla writes quote, and these are real quotes,

baby Sussex, as he's called for the moment, needs to know about what it means to be a

black person in the world today. Of course there is no one black

experience except perhaps a cop stopping you because you look like a suspect.

Unquote. And yes, it will be interesting to see baby Sussex pulled over by a cop

who asks, hey, black guy, where did you get that motorcade?

Over, over CNN, John Blake asks,

how black will a royal baby be? There are questions about how to racially define

the royal baby, John Wright's in the passive voice because no one is actually

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