Related to this point, Shambles, in your 20 Feb 06 - 07:21 PM, you speculated whether you would reveal your racial grouping if you had joined a forum that you discovered had almost all Black members. You wrote that "if I ever did decide to make it clear to the rest of the contributors what my racial grouping was - it would not have been because I was either proud or ashamed of it."

Well I was not accusing you or saying that this was the reason for you. I was just trying to work it our from my perspective in order to better understand yours. It was a worthwile exercise for will accept that I found it is not to be an easy one.

For whichever course you decide - you are open to criticism and self-examination. Part of me would probably like to be thought of and accepted as a black African American blues man. Looking back that was probably what many of my schoolfriends would have much preferred to have been born - rather than suburban English white boys. A romantic concept possibly more that a very realistic one.   

But I think we have been over this before and I can remember you making some comment about not being happy at the thought of posting without making your racial grouping clear. My view may have been that you had the choice because this was a written medium - but I am not sure that is still my view.