Some years ago there was a female black chef daily on British breakfast TV - Rusty Lee. Renowned for her raucous laugh … 
Julie
Ahem … England is a part of Britain, which is a part of Europe … ditto Wales.
Julie
Give me a few more years! I’m working on it! One of my goals is to be the first (part) Black female chef to challenge an Iron Chef!
Okay, thenI should have said that Brits declare they are not part of England and Europe, nor do they want to be.
But she did give me this long historical soliloquy on it, which I have forgotten lol
And by the way. What kind of an ignorant dumbass are you to make such a stupid, inbred, uneducated statement? Was this some kind of joke? Did you think it was funny to automatically pigeonhole someone’s ability to be diverse based on color?
Jackass.
I still don’t think you’re getting my point, Eilsel
To say “Brits declare they are not part of England” equates to saying “Americans declare they are not part of California”.
England is in Britain, and I’ve never heard an English person deny being British!
Maybe what you mean is "Brits other than the English (ie. Scots, Irish, Welsh) deny being English? This is perfectly true.
Julie
Okay maybe so…no need to get testy, JULIE. 
Evidently, but that post is just making it worse Eilsel. I’ll admit that our political geography is more complicated that that of most countries, but take a look at this map.
The blue part is Scotland, the dark green part is Wales, the red part is England (forget the other labels, it’s from a tourism website). Those three parts added together make Great Britain (or just Britain for short).
The light green part is Northern Ireland, add that in together with the other smaller islands shown in boxes and you get the United Kingdom and the people who live in it are all described as British, but the English come from England, the Welsh from Wales, the Scots from Scotland and the Northern Irish from Northern Ireland. Culturally and historically all those parts are seperate countries, but politically they just count as one. It tends to annoy people from other parts of the UK being referred to as English.
Mainland Europe is a few miles across the sea off the bottom right of the picture. The whole UK is part of the continent of Europe.
If you post in this thread again, you might want to start with an apology. That kind of bigotry will not be tolerated in IMHO,
Okay, okay. My humble apologies. I may be intelligent in many areas but foriegn affairs I am not, nor foreign geography.
Sorry Eilsel, that did come across a bit sharpish, didn’t it? Honestly not intended to be … pax?
Julie
pax? That’s lingo I’m not familiar with,'splain yourself Lucy.
PAX is a television network.
Doh! I wasn’t thinking TV. I was thinking it was an acronym for something.
Lucy? Lucy???
“Pax” is the Latin word for peace … used quite commonly here in Europe, sorry Britain, sorry England. 
Julie
Okay well then…I was too embarrassed earlier to say…I don’t get it then if she’s referring to a TV network. LOL
Yes, then pax, my friend. LOL Wherever you are…(lol love the "at the keyboard location btw)
Eilsel
(who is actually from California
originally…Santa Barbara…)
Didn’t I mention? I’m from England … LOL!
Julie
figures…
ducking behind my rock
May I wearily play the devils’ advocate and say, since it’s obvious that blacks do not have insurmountable problems with getting onto television–why don’t any blacks want to be TV chefs?
Good question…
Let’s ask them…
oh wait, there aren’t any. LOL