Jeddy, of course not.

I should have used Azizi's term - "valueless descriptor"

My ideal society is one where skin colour is used as a valueless descriptor and for no other purpose - "John is brown" and "Fred is white" being mere observations and helpful ways of describing obvious physical charateristics.

My point was that on this thread there is no reason why anyone need to know what colour rifleman is.

Riflemans reasons on the other hand for pointing out that he is non white are valid as the party he is taking issue with are the BNP and they discriminate against non-whites, so falling into that category he clearly felt he should respond and identify himself as being an irreconcilable BNP opponent on that basis.