Quote:Conflating "nationhood" with notions of "appropriateness" and "compatibility" with "race" isn't logical.
Sure it is.
Here in Australia we hear it from the aborigines all the time - how we 'whiteys' have stolen their land. And over there in Uganda Robert Mugabe has quite correctly been saying that the immigrant white settlers are an alien and colonial presence in a nation of historic black identity.
Even in my own lifetime I remember when I could walk the length and breadth of England and see only people of white English identity - a people united in their racial, cultural and historic identity and ethos.
I've got nothing against black skin
per se - in fact it's quite possible that with my own Portuguese blood I've got African blood coursing through me from the days of the Moors. Not a problem. It's probably why I'm a chestnut-brown by the end of each summer.
My objection is that blacks and whites soon divide upon racial and prejudicial grounds - and upon ethnic and 'colour' preferences - and thus create divisions and animosities and community rivalries where before none existed.
The blacks in the UK who have my greatest support, goodwill and respect are those who have had the commitment to depart from the homeboy ghetto-stereotype to go marry into the white indigenous British mainstream.
They have my 100% support in all their endeavours. They have truly given themselves over to assimilating with the natives.
But what really pisses me off are such organisations as The Association of Black Lawyers of Great Britain - and many thousand other like that which make an issue of distinguishing black from white.