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Because I live and work in Britain, I shall answer in a British context. The problem is exactly the same, because here we have Black-British, Asian-British and all manner of other racial classifications.

The reason it can't happen is because it is the people themselves who call themselves by the relevant classification - aided and encouraged by the sort of Politically Correct gobbledegook that compels employers to ask for these classifications. This leads people to split their loyalties - Negroid peoples think of themselves as Negroid first and (if they think of nationality at all), British comes a long way down their list of priorities. You only have to see their red, gold and green rastaman snoods, their pendants in the shape of the continent of Africa and their cleaving to all the various things that mark them out as different, their culture.

That isn't, by any means, to say that they are wrong - even though I personally think that if they live here, they should embrace our culture - but unless and until they do embrace our culture, swear allegiance to the crown and learn our language, then they cannot be anything but Africans, let alone African-British.

At the final analysis, there is no such thing as African-British, Black-British, Negroid-British, Asian-British or anything else - or, that is to say, there shouldn't be. But the sticky fingers of the PC do-gooders have foisted upon us the notion that a person can claim British citizenship whilst at the same time plotting to blow half of London to smithereens. Oh yes - you can see people like Omar Bakri Mohammed and Abu Qatada rubbing their hands with glee because some Whitehall lefty has decided that they are Islamic-British or some-such, notwithstanding that their ilk dream of an Caliphate where shari'a law reigns supreme, where women are ritually beaten for not obeying their husbands and where genuine Britons are enslaved and humiliated.

These people aren't British, in any way, shape or form. Likewise, unless and until Hispanics and Afro-Caribbeans take the oath of allegiance in the United States, they aren't American. When they do, they cease to be Afro-Caribbean and Hispanic.

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