Are there any black knights?

Let's get this out of the way first :

http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/grail/jpgs/bknight3.jpg

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Who's that?

Oh sorry, should've read the link address. But isn't he American?

you're fucking kidding me

fake

No, this is a serious question. Are there any official rules that would stop prominent black Britons from getting knighted, besides informal practices of course.

off the top of my head, trevor phillips, bill morris, trevor mcdonald.

do you have an honours system in finnland?

do you have books in finland?

do you have anything besides the internet which you connect to while sitting in a shopping cart in a phone booth?

Sir Trevor Nelson
Sir Kulvinder Ghir
Dame Jude Sarpong

do you have an honours system in finnland?

Not in the same sense as in Britain. You can receive or even buy certain titles from the state, but they have nothing to with nobility, since Finland has been a republic ever since it got independent. All the proper "noblemen" we have are descendants of the old Swedish nobility, and I don't think they have any official status.

are there any black finnish noblemen?

And yeah, sure I could've tried to search the net to get an answer for this question, but I thought it'd be easier to get the answer from a board populated by many British people. And it was.

are there any black finnish noblemen?

Since there were few black Swedes before the 20th century, I doubt it.

Are there any official rules that would stop prominent black Britons from getting knighted

i know that we're terrible racist bastards and all that, but for fuck's sake.

Sorry about that, I just thought that there might've been some rule that said a knighted person should be a third generation Briton or something...

http://www.pinballers.com/Pictures/Black%20Knight%20(1980)/blackknight.jpg

Ben Kingsley (aka Krishna Bhanji) and Salman Rushdie as well as the people banriquit mentioned and many more, i'm sure. maybe Ben and Salman aren't famous enough for you though, Tuomas. how many people do you know of who are knighted, anyway? i could probably name 10 knighted people off the top of my head and the fact that three of them are not white suggests a decent ratio overall.

are there any black finnish noblemen?

Since there were few black Swedes before the 20th century, I doubt it.

how many black britons do you think there were before the 20thC ?

I dunno, but as I explained upthread, Britons still get knighted today, whereas that hasn't happened in Finland for about 100 years.

http://www.newsfromnowhere.org.uk/books/DisplayBookInfo.php?ISBN=1873245076

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LET'S MAKE THIS HAPPEN, PEOPLE

Dame Jocelyn Barrow
Dame Shirley Bassey
Dame Kelly Holmes

Probably missed some others

^^ interesting story and there are other examples in the east end and bristol but not a great surprise they were not recruited into the ruling class.

cpost

there is a question relating to britain's use of the "honours system", if you like, in american and india as a tool of divide-and-rule. i'm too busy to unpack that right now.

http://www.mainframegeek.com/Image/British_Knights_Black.jpg

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http://www.bradwalsh.com/images/journal03132006-1.jpg

i never realized ben kingsley was actually of indian descent

A black knight is a soldier or knight who either is not bound to a specific liege or does not want his liege, or himself, to be identified and so does not bear any heraldic standards or has blackened them out.

Fictional black knights are usually solitary, usually evil, master warriors.

Trevor MacDonald definitely fits this description.

If Tuomas did not exist the internet would have had to create him.

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Dame Jude Sarpong

-- Dom Passantino, Saturday, April 5, 2008 9:45 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Link

i know this is a joek but fyi i would "KNIGHT" her

lol http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=%22Jude+Sarpong%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

she is an MBE btw. don't think dom was joeking.

I was. She's an MBE? For services to what, screeching?

Tolerating Vernon "Bolton" Kaye?

party in the park '03 helped heal this country a little bit.

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good post

Sir Tim Westwood

i was just gonna post that google search for jude sarpong. wtf

It's June.

Still April in the UK.

I hope you're happy with yourself.

I'll let my posting history speak for me there.

I went along to Trafalgar Square one lunchtime a couple of years back to hear Nelson Mandela speak. Up first was June Sarpong MBE. She introduced him with exactly the same gravitas as if she were interviewing Atomic Kitten between repeats of Friends. (He was also sharing a bill with Jamelia, FFS)

i think she got it for that doc/interview she did w. tony blairs during the last election -- engaging ver kids and whatnot.