At office water-coolers, on social media and in bars and cafes around the country, one question has dominated conversation.Everyone wanted to know the identity of the supposed 'royal racists' – who allegedly asked about the skin colour of Harry and Meghan's yet-to-be-born son Archie – after they were 'inadvertently' outed by the Sussexes' apparent mouthpiece in his new book, Endgame.But everyone has been asking the wrong question. What people should be considering is whether it's racist at all to wonder out loud about the skin tone of an unborn baby. As the black mother of two mixed-race children, I can tell you one of the few things my ex-partner and I agreed on before our son's birth was his name: Ivory.
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