I don't read unnamed GUEST posts, so I wouldn't have seen that post from GUEST 14 Apr 05 - 07:08 AM if Azizi hadn't mentioned it.

In fact it's pretty nonsensical, as well as offensive, with its "By Blood they will never be British". "British" is a nationality which has been common in one form or another to people from all over the world for centuries. Nothing to do with "Blood".

That sentence is about as absurd as if someone in the States were to talk about "By Blood they will never be American" in respect of descendants of immigants of one sort or another (almost the entire population in that case, of course).

And of course Azizi is quite right to point out that there have ben black people in these islands for centuries, contributing to the common gene pool. Further back than that even - in Roman times there'd have been plenty of black soldiers and colonists.