"In my opinion, a person who has one White biological parent and one biological parent who is Black {or who has some Black ancestry} should be allowed to consider him or her self White no matter how dark their complexion is, no matter how frizzy their hair is, and no matter how his or her other physical features look."

Azizi, I totally agree that a person should have that right, but I do have a couple of questions.

Why, in God's name, would anyone want to exercise it?

What is so bloody special about being white?

I am white, and the predominant feeling I have about that fact is shame. I am constantly made aware that I have enjoyed advantages and benefits not open to my black contemporaries, by virtue of my colour.

I should think that the one asset that any black, or biracial person would cleave to is pride in his/her origins.

I don't know how things went in the USA, but over here it was the black population who decided that "black" was their choice of descriptor, and it would be a brave and foolish man who would use the word "negro", though the meaning is identical.

As for Lewis Hamilton, to me he is just a supremely talented young racing driver, whose success in setting the world of F1 alight has absolutely nothing to do with the colour of his skin, but I suppose that the media hacks have to find a tag to hang their stories on.

Shame really, as it detracts from the achievments.

Don T.