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July 03, 2010
A touch of the tar brush
The Union Jack has been rebranded in the hope of reflecting "a more modern society". By adding black.
Remember: When the Left says it, it isn't racist.
The proposed new flag [at the link] is the work of Nigel Turner, an enthusiastic fan of the UK's transformation into a multiracial society over the past 50 years.
Note to the BBC: The United Kingdom has always been a multi-racial society. Even if we lump the Welsh, the Cornish, the Manx, the Scots and (some of) the Irish into a Celtic mass it is still the lot of them vs the English.*
The BBC still clearly believes there is a "white" race (which makes them not racist somehow).
* Yes, I know the Isle of Mann is not part of the United Kingdom. Just didn't want to leave anyone out. The Channel Islanders can fend for themselves.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at July 3, 2010 09:44 AM
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From a genetic perspective, we should probably lump a good number of the English in with the Celtic mass.
The dna marker L-21 (c'est moi) is a major British/Irish/W.European sub-clade of the major Western European genetic marker P-312. L-21 appears to reflect the late Neolithic/early Bronze Age movements from Central Europe (to both the British Isles and, it appears, to SW Europe). With the fairly new and deeper haplo-group sub-clade test results coming in over the last 2 years, L-21 is very common in England (less so in the east, unsurprisingly).
Not sure how this link will work, but it's the map of L-21 in the British Isles:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=102956803377716741902.00046ba2d7f6667c40f99&ll=54.585089,-4.298272&spn=8.78648,11.947374&source=embed
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