-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.31 Dec 2005

I'm not as English as you think. I was born in Africa, left when I was four, but still return regularly to see how the old place is getting along now that the British Empire has gracefully withdrawn. I might even have more claim to being legally (as opposed to ethnically) African than you, despite not being black. As for my Englishness, it's true I live in England, was educated there, speak with an English accent, drink tea, have a butler, approve of the Gold Standard, and abhor ethnics of all kinds, but you have to go back a couple of generations to find an Englishman in my family. My mother's side is Irish to the 10th Century, with a few unfortunate dollops of French and German aristocracy, and my father's family is Scottish. Above all, I consider myself a Gentleman.

As for the tale of how Africans came to have black skin and white palms, I heard it in South Africa, needless to say, from a white Afrikaner.