The Voice - Weekly Paper

[anancientrace]

Letter written to an idiot who (thinks) he knows his whole future - Robert Nostradamus. Prat!

"So a white Hungarian acquaintance asked me why I didn't read The Voice? A popular weekly for black Britons. I mentioned her ethnicity because my older friends, me a nearly 57 years old mixed race married man, wouldn't ask me such a question.

Having been born and brought up in Great Britain albeit via child care homes and later being fostered by a white British family I had really felt no need for a weekly dose of news for my Jamaican half. But over the last 2 weeks I have been given a chance to read the last two issues and wasn't overly impressed. But then via The Voices's letter page week beginning 9 April 2007 I was introduced to someone called "Robert". No surname proffered. Mixed Relations his specialised subject.

Now you must understand I have just completed a family search and have recently criticised various people in my past for considering anyone of colour as just one amorphous mass called "black". Now via "Robert" I now find I do not rightly belong there either. Well that told me! I officially do not exist. Not black enough for Robert and his Ghanaian heritage. In his world I officially do not count seemingly. "We need to stick with our own black women" is quoted in his missive. Aside from the plain chauvinism in that remark, preserving the black race, eh Robert? Black ethnic purity perhaps. Any alarm bells ringing yet, Robert?

In my unworthy way, Robert, can I presume to ask you if your tongue was firmly in your ethnically sound black cheek or are you really an idiot? No, Anan, you cannot be rude to someone just quoting their own genuine held opinion. Like "stick with our own clever black sisters and not race mix". Okay - are you an immature idiot then ? You have decided you have not and will never be attracted to any white females and never have and never will be in a mixed race relationship. Man, I want to be there when you meet the right wife material, Robert. Her report of this encounter would go something like "Our eyes met across a crowded room and after I had submitted notarised birth certificates for three generations of my family, Robert asked me to dance".

Yes, if I were really black, of the feminine gender and a lot younger - I would have him. "Back off, sisters - I saw him first".

Now I know why I don't read The Voice. It gives airtime to waste of spaces like unworthy mixed race me and the "Roberts" of this world - whom I fervently hopes gets his head out of that place and loosens up - even if it means losing some of that identity or heritage he imagines he has. I was recently told that Jamaicans in general do not get on with Africans in general. I thought what about half Jamaicans? I do not dislike whole nations, just deserving individuals. And with Robert if he maintains his written stance, there is a person from Ghana that may go on that list.

And as for Robert and his love life, when some woman knocks him over, may she be all he wants, not just for but perhaps despite her ancestral relations. My own "clever black sister" of over 30 years hails from Finland and wait a second though - she isn't black at all!"

[Earl]

My personal thoughts on mixed race relationships are they are the future!

Think about it, the more mixed race relationships there are, the more mixed race individuals. It would be a certain end to racism.

[SFB]

That won't stop Muslims from being a pain in the arse, no matter what colour they are.

Oh and 'Melting Pot' was probably before your time son, or was it?

[bogmarsh]

Melting pot = opposite to Salad Bowl

Takes me back to Higher Modern Studies...

[SFB]

"You could stir it for a hundred years or more and turn out coffee coloured people by the score."

[bogmarsh]

Well with global warming we can all be getting tanned pretty soon

[SFB]

Some scientists believe that ice will block the Gulf Stream and Britain will freeze.

[bogmarsh]

Okay - guess I'll be turning blue then

[Earl]

That won't stop Muslims from being a pain in the arse, no matter what colour they are.

Oh and 'Melting Pot' was probably before your time son, or was it?

They're miserable fuckers for a reason, not all Muslims are the same. They believe the same crap, but there are moderate ones.

[Tweety]

That is disgusting and I consider that racism of the worst kind. Didn't some other well know madman from history have similar views about purity.

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