Black Britons Disappearing?

Check this link :arrow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk/2002/race/changing_face_of_britain.stm

 

Here's another one:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/newspapers/sunday_times/britain/article1295000.ece

January 21, 2007

Mixed-race Britons to become biggest minority
Jack Grimston

MIXED-RACE Britons are poised to overtake Indians to become the country’s largest ethnic minority within 25 years, the government’s new rights watchdog has forecast.

Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights, said the mixed-race group was seeing an “astonishing rise” and would reach 1.24m by 2020.

But while cross-racial marriages are becoming increasingly widespread and accepted, Phillips has warned that the children of such couples may face a new set of racial problems. He points to the risk of a generation falling victim to “identity stripping”, or being unsure which community they belong to.

Phillips, whose previously unpublicised comments were made in a recent speech, said the expansion in mixed-race Britons “is not an uncomplicated prospect. The mixed-race Britons are young and they show the highest employment rates of any minority group.

“But they also exhibit the highest rates of lone parenthood and family breakdown, in some cases three times the average. They suffer the highest rates of drug treatment . . . Many people talk of identity stripping — children who grow up marooned between communities”.

The warnings have provoked criticism from some who believe they are unnecessarily pessimistic. Val Hoskins, a trustee of the mixed-race support group People in Harmony, said: “The reason my group was started was in response to people like Enoch Powell saying mixed-race people were a cause of conflict, not being one or the other.

“Mixed-race people do not see themselves as marooned. It is other people who see them as not belonging.”

Oona King, the former Labour MP who is the daughter of a Geordie Jewish mother and a black American father, acknowledged there were problems coming from a mixed-race family, but said these were easily outweighed by the advantages.

“When I was small, my white family said if I got lost I should ask a nice policeman, but my black family told me that if I saw a policeman I should run away,” said King.

She added: “When black people tell me I’m not black and white people tell me I’m not white, I suppose there is something stripped, but I am grateful for being mixed race. It gives me a chameleon-like ability to fit into different situations and cultures.”

Mixed-race Britons — who before the 1991 census were described officially as “other” or as members of another ethnic group — numbered 674,000 in the 2001 count.

According to the Office for National Statistics, the largest group within the mixed-race category in 2001 was Afro-Caribbean-white, with 237,000 people, followed by Asian-white at 189,000.

Phillips’s forecasts, based partly on research by Professor Phil Rees of Leeds University, suggest the mixed-race group is growing at a rate of 4.9% a year. This will enable the category to outstrip Indians, who currently number about 1.1m, by the end of the 2020s.

Only a few groups, such as black Africans, are growing faster. Meanwhile, the white British population is shrinking by about 100,000 every three years.

As global migration has accelerated, interracial relationships have become increasingly widespread and people with mixed race can point to role models such as Zadie Smith, the novelist, and Halle Berry, the Hollywood actress.

But many mixed-race Britons believe it has only recently become easier for them to assert their identity rather than having to declare themselves as belonging to an established group.

“Some communities, particularly the ethnic and black rights groups, have tried to bulldoze mixed-race people into a black identity,” said Madeleine Cham-pagnie, 37, an Iranian-Italian teacher who was born in Britain.

Her husband Simon, 37, is mixed French-Jamaican-Indian but, she added, “identifies himself as black British”.

The couple have two small children. “I will be interested to see how they identify themselves when they grow up,” she said.

 

I doubt it will ever disapear. As long there are caribbeans and africans the Black Brit will still exist. Getting out of the subject I remember on the Big Brother show in the uk the mixed race woman Jade made some rude remarks towards that Indian actress who later won.

 

Jade got absoloutely slated for Big Brother. She was a previous contestant who basically made her fortune from it... then re-emerged in the last series. . and it seems her career has gone to pot now through the comments she made, although Shilpa did say she didnt think it was racism.

Try this:- www.intermix.org.uk mixed race website based here in UK. May give you an idea of mixed british citizens!!!

I do agree though that black mixed british is the biggest growing population in the UK in certain areas of the country.

 

oh and my 5 year old son who is mixed black/white says he is black himself, his own description. Dont know how my daughter will see herself as she's only 22 months old...

 

Thanks KG on the link. There are a lot of them on UK tv and some of the intertainers are mixed race as well. Did you know the wife of George III,Charlotte Sofia was of mixed race? Not surprising and I wonder if some of the members of the BNP have some nubian ancestors?

 

No, I didnt know that! There was an article a while ago in the Manchester Evening News about a Yorkshire surname... when they analyzed the DNA of the man he had African blood so they reckon that Black Africans were in Britain from around the 15th Century. Im not surprised and I would love to have my DNA analyzed. All I know is my Irish, Scottish, German and Jewish ancestory.

 

The UK is more mixed than people think.

 

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/18/nblair218.xml

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/236/236506_three_hurt_in_city_shootings.html

Too many young kids are dying through gun crime.

Teenagers buying guns for less than the price of a computer game... or hiding them for those who have them and then using it themselves.

3 teenage boys shot dead in London. 3 shootings in Manchester over weekend. My friend manages a youth centre in Moss Side. The kids blatently try to walk in with the guns looking for people with their hoodies up... Jeez Im dreading it when my kids are older. [/b]

 

Be a good parent and tell them when they grow up that it is a rough world out there. Such gangstas are very dangerous and since the Police won't play they will send a young black boy in prison more fast than you say hello epecially if he has a gun.

 

Hardest thing in the world soulthinker... Being a parent!!

My son is already pretty streetwise... stays with me holding the pushchair whenever we walk, knows not to talk to strangers...and jeez he can stand his own ground - he's 5 but as big as an 8 year old and Ive seen him giving attitude to 16 year olds on the bus home from school!! Think baby girl's going to be more hassle than him! - Got my own Diva!! ... But hopefully yeah, Im a good Mum, Daddy's from back in the day and knows what goes on so together we are a good team!

The gangsters from my youth were totally different - Ok they done their thing but it was still about drugs, running club doors etc., but no innocent people got caught in the cross fire and they werent 14 years old plus!!

 

I'm glad things are alright but,make sure get get things sorted before the drama comes.

 

So is America.