This time it’s Prince Harry saying to black comedian Stephen K. Amos “you don’t sound like a black chap” following Prince Charles’ 60th birthday concert last year.
Amos told TV host Matthew Wright, “I wanted to say, how is I supposed to sound?”
Harry has already been in the soup recently for referring to a Sandhurst colleague as a “little Paki”, so it’s pretty obvious that the boy can’t help himself when it comes to these matters.
Supporters will say of this belated revelation that we’re just too sensitive these days, perhaps in the immediate wake of Carol Thatcher’s celebrated “golliwog” remark in the green room at the One Show.
But Amos has a point. What does a “black chap” sound like?
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So if I gave you 10 examples of people speaking, and 5 of them were black, you’re saying that it would be impossible to tell who the black people are?
Get real. There is a physical difference between the voiceboxes of different races. It is not imagined.