Mikel, really, I'm not having a go, but I wish I lived in your world. One where you're given a flat over the phone, only for it to be gone when you turn up in person with the money.
Or where bananas are thrown from cars as you walk, or where a racist sets fire to a house where you are having a party, and someone is killed.
Or where after the most atrocious terrorist attack Britain has faced, you are stopped by the Police EVERYDAY for two weeks, with other visible minorities, while white people go about their business.
Or a situation when you hate your fellow supporters so much, you want your opponents to score.
All of this is no third party reporting, all the above happened to me.
I wish I lived in your world, but I don't. I don't want to dwell on what colour our players are, its largely irrelevant when it comes to performance. Its normally a topic I avoid, but I thought that I would show that Black people have made a contribution to Everton.
I can't really see why its touched a nerve, I'm Black, I'm proud of that, I am also proud to be called an Everton supporter, but in my world, a colour blind world does not exist, not for my everyday life away from supporting Everton.
Eh?
Barrack Obama won that election because he gained a massive interest from the black community who were not previously interested in voting.
However, I believe it was the right man for the job, and he has the right ideas. But he was voted in on the colour of his skin not for his policy, unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
So, Black people, being what 25% of the population of America (assuming we throw in other "minorities") managed to "get their man in" over a 75% white population. I am not up on the mechanisms of America, but I can say one thing, after that Cowboy Bush, if Obama was white, he would have won by a landslide and wiped the republicans off the map.
Clearly, we are going to disagree on policy, but that's politics.
The reason I didn't want to get into that is how you define "race" and particularly "mixed race" Did you know that in America, the defintion is simple, one drop of black blood makes you black, irrrespective of your "other" make up.
Don't really care if people want to use the term mixed race, black or dual heritage, HE WAS THE FIRST TO SCORE IN AN FA CUP FINAL (however he is defined). and that is my point - and for that we should be proud, particularly given Everton's perceived racist reputation.
I don't really care what the definition is in America, It's certainly not how I view things, being someone of mixed heritage.
I was correcting you, Mike Trebilcock was the first 'mixed race' footballer to score in a FA cup final. I am not disputing what he did in an FA cup final, and I am very proud of what he and the rest of the Everton team achieved at the time.
