Well it can be racist if the implication in the tone is that there’s a preference for not having a particular racial feature show up in a future child.
So if it’s not ‘I can’t wait to see who he takes after most’ but something like ‘I hope he gets your skin, hair features and not theirs’
However my problem with this particular anecdote is the confusion and obfuscation around what - if anything - was said or implied.
Meghan tells Oprah that there were conversations (plural) around what Archie’s skin tone would be while she was pregnant while at the same time there were conversations about Archie not being a Prince and she let Oprah speculate that the two things were connected.
Then Harry comes on and says actually it was just one person’s comment and it was before they were even married and Meghan wasn’t even present for the conversation. But he will never say who it was. But he lets the media speculate about who the royal racist is for a could have years without ever clarifying what was actually said.
Then during press promotion for Spare he says it wasn’t racist, he’d never said it was and it was just unconscious bias.
He still doesn’t explain who or what was said and doesn’t clarify that the separate stuff about Archie’s title was nothing to do with that just the rules for a male great grandchild of a monarch not in the direct line for the throne.
Then their ‘unofficial’ spokesman Omid lets a mistake get published in his book which names Kate and Charles as the royal ‘racists’ and STILL Harry nor Meghan make any kind of clarifying statement to clear up the confusion on what was said, by whom, or when.
So just leave this horrible mess hanging over everyone’s heads and allow their ‘supporters’ to use it to attack his own family on a regular basis for over three years now.