Prince Harry in new race row after telling comedian Stephen K Amos 'you don't sound black'

Daily Telegraph ^ | 11 Feb 2009 | Lucy Cockcroft

[GOPGuide]

Prince Harry has become embroiled in a new race row after allegedly telling a comedian, Stephen K Amos, that he did not "sound like a black chap". Mr Amos has claimed that the Prince made the remark when they met after the stand-up show We Are Not Amused for the Prince of Wales' 60th birthday celebrations in November 2008. Mr Amos, from south-west London, made the disclosure on Five's The Wright Stuff on Tuesday.

He told presenter Matthew Wright that Prince Harry, 24, congratulated him on his performance before saying: "You don't sound like a black chap." As Mr Wright looked on in disbelief, Mr Amos added: "I wanted to say, 'How is I supposed to sound?'" Asked if the remark had been made in jest, he replied: "I hope it was."

[TheThinker]

You mean white princes can’t say things that blacks can say to any white person? Are there no exeptions?

[GeronL]

I thought it was about Harry Reid. Maybe he was going to join the US Special Olympic team with Biden

[mkjessup]

Sheriff Buford T. Justice, observing the crisp-speaking, articulate and resonant-voiced black Sheriff Taylor (who has just been shoved into a swamp along with his cruiser by Justice's cruiser and nitwit son-in-law ... "say boy, you sounded a whole lot more, uhhhh TALLER on the radio!" I don't believe there is one racist bone in Prince Harry's body, he's a good lad, God Bless him.

[Mila]

"Well, they probably had different fathers don’t forget."

Could be.

[RedRedRose]

The PC Police are chasing him down. He’s too masculine and free for them. They want to neuter him.

I like the kid.

[Vanders9]

“That’s what I think too. I don’t see him as a bad person, he just genuinely doesn’t know the social cues for political correctness.”

Perhaps we should all be more distressed because we DO know the social cues for political correctness.

[popdonnelly]

Minority groups make stereotypical comments all the time, and they’re given a pass.

[AngryJawa]

"...I think he’s more handsome than William. Poor William is practically bald in his 20’s."

You ignorant, insensitive HAIRIST!

I demand that you be sentenced to 40 hours of Follicular Diversity Training! Following that, you will make a nationally-televised formal apology to all Persons of Exposed Pate.

Let's see those tax returns while we're at it too. [/s]

[PapaBear3625]

it is just the naivete of somebody who has been sheltered too much and too long from normal people.

We need more like him.

The way to defeat political correctness is to have the courage to laugh derisively at it.

[monday]

“Telling a black Chap he doesn’y talk black is just rude its not political correctness to not say that.”

Slightly insensitive I agree, but in America blacks do their best to sound different than whites and I have seen black comedians make fun of the way whites talk. I have yet to see anyone get offended by that. I fail to see what the big deal is. Some blacks talk like whites and some don't. Pointing it out or commenting on it shouldn't brand someone as a racist. It's just stating the obvious.

[monday]

“And to be perfectly honest, black men and women have a grainier texture to their voice. It isn’t about ebonics or hip hop slang, it’s about the tone of their voice.”

lol, you are just making $hit up now.

[autumnraine]

Aww come on! Can’t I push the boundaries for once!?!?

[autumnraine]

Aww come on! Can’t I push the boundaries for once!?!?

Forgot the Laugh Out Loud. Cause I was totally playing around with you.

[autumnraine]

I am hanging my head in shame. I think I need to start a support group for Hairists. HA. No, not laughing, HA as in Hairists Anonymous.

[omega4179]

Thats a really mature comment. Lets see you go up to a black guy and say hey you don’t talk black or better yet, ask a black woman with straightened hair how much it costs to make her haire more “white”

[Junior_G]

Thats a really mature comment. Lets see you go up to a black guy and say hey you don’t talk black or better yet, ask a black woman with straightened hair how much it costs to make her haire more “white”

I'm not saying he wouldn't get angry and shoot me in the face; what I am saying is that people need to be less pathetically thin-skinned about comments that are related to race but that aren't in any way racist. Humans are all different. We're naturally curious about folks who are different than us. Yet we are supposed to be forbidden from talking about our differences in any way other than cheesy praise.

[omega4179]

I agree that we shouldn’t be pathetically think skinned about other peoples comments.