Genuinely sorry if I've offended you Erik, my post wasn't intended as a comment on race or really the country as a whole more about that people experience of other races in Norfolk is quite limited. I described the term "coloured people" as old fashioned not malicious and was a comment on norfolk's adolescence especially when it comes to these debates.
Of course ethnicity and culture goes deeper than skin colour but outwardly, for example when sitting on a bus, to use Carrabuh's example, it is the only factor people are using to form an opinion, and using that to say I won't sit next to a person is racist. Unaggressively and potentially even subconscious but it does say so etching about people.
I do agree with the points you made and was rather disappointed that you felt the need to level that strong an argument against me. I also really don't pretend to speak "for all white people" in the slightest
Three or four years ago I was the same as you (and I'm only 23).
Is it really racist to say that you feel disconnected from your national team because so many players are black? Maybe, but I feel like that, and frankly I don't care what people think. I've watched the U-21s in the past few years and seen England sides with 6, 7, 8+ black players, and thought, "what the **** has happened here?". Look at Mo Farah - he's black, he was born in Ethiopia, and his parents are Ethiopian, but anyone who dares say he's not really British gets slaughtered. Some people think of being 'English' or 'British' as simply happening to be born on land under the control of the English or British government, or come out with such crap as "well as long as he
feels British..." It works both ways though: look at that Chris Birchall bloke who played for Trinidad and Tobago. He's blonde, white, was born and raised in Staffordshire and his parents are English, but because his mum happened to be born in Trinidad, he played
against England in the 2006 World Cup. What bollocks. I belong to the group who think of people ethnically. Why is there anything wrong with that?
If I were to ask you to describe the German people, you wouldn't say, "oh, they're such a multicultural society; there are black Germans and Turkish Germans and white Germans". You'd probably say they're blonde haired and good at penalties. So why is it different for your own country? Why the need to insist that the Labour party's social engineering is one of the world's Good Things? Why beat about the bush and avoid giving your opinions on people? I've always found that Sikhs and Hindus slot perfectly into British society, but that areas with large black or Muslim populations are 'no-goes'. I've met far fewer black people than most, on account of my location, and yet they've all seemed to fit the stereotypes: I've been randomly violently assaulted by blacks (ABH in the middle of the street) for no reason other than being white; I've an old black schoolmate who's served time for dealing crack; I've a female friend whose kid is mixed and whose dad has ****ed off to London and contributes nothing towards her. Then when you add to that the government's own statistics about how much more likely black males are to rob, thieve, burgle, rape, murder... Is it any wonder people don't want to sit next to them on the bus or generally have anything to do with them? I understand that individuals are different, but I'm a human being. In the back of my mind, I'm making assumptions about people I see out of the corner of my eye. So if I see a couple of black guys walking towards me one night, I'm going to cross the road. It's only natural.
All football clubs have their share of idiot fans and our club is no exception. What I will say is that this does not reflect the views of all Ipswich fans! 
