Black (Asian too) and/or British?

I'm Black, born & raised in London yet my parents are from Angola. I always get asked what country I'm from solely on the account of being Black (immediate assumption I'm not British) and I always say Angola, despite the fact that I've never been there, guess it's easier to identify with. I've always been reluctant to call myself British because I doubt white brits would look at me and say "he's just as British as I am".

Really?

Are you parents/grandparents Italian?

fair enough, I can see where you are coming from. but in my case I have found that, while my heritage has had a huge impact on who I am, growing up in England has had a bigger one. having been to Italy and visited relatives and seen how different it is culturally, it is hard to consider myself more Italian than British. then again, I am third generation and from the sounds of it you are second, so I suppose it is different.

I just believe, that my heritage is important it's who I am. Don't get me wrong, I love England/Britain, it's just I believe 'Nigeria' is who I am, it's where my ancestors are from, it's my roots my parents have just beaten this in my head not to forget where I'm from.

Of course, you should never forget your roots, but truely, IMO, you are Black British of Nigerian descent.

Don't wanna sound rude but maybe if your parents didn't want want you to be British or influenced by British culture, then they shouldn't have raised you here.

You are not just residing here, you were born and bred here, right?

Just my two cents.

fair enough, I can see where you are coming from. but in my case I have found that, while my heritage has had a huge impact on who I am, growing up in England has had a bigger one. having been to Italy and visited relatives and seen how different it is culturally, it is hard to consider myself more Italian than British. then again, I am third generation and from the sounds of it you are second, so I suppose it is different.

You can probably pass as being 'generally' British though. Whenever someone asks me where I'm from, regardless if I say the UK, then this conversation always ensues (C+P from first page):

"So where are you from?"
"London"
"No I mean, where are you from?"
"London..."
"I mean where are your parents from?"
"........ Shropshire?"
"Like, what is your ethnicity...?"
"Oh, Chinese"
"Cool, nice country, my brother visited there on his gap year"
"Nice, I've never been"

I doubt the chavs who regularly shout racial epiphets and insults at me on the streets or DM readers see me as their "British brethren" either. How often have you been mocked because of your Italian ancestry? Most people probably don't realise it unless you tell them specfically.

How can I be accepted as 'British' when I'm treated like a perpetual foreigner by mainstream media and society as a whole, even though I was raised here? I never will be, I can't change my race, so theres nothing I can do about it. Its why I don't consider myself British beyond my nationality which is an objective fact.

Implying that all non-ethnic British people in the UK are immigrants, classic.

Do you consider Boris Johnson, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband British?

How about the Queen?

that is very true, its something I have always found hypocritical when people who think there are too many foreigners here never seem to be too bothered by my presence

How about the Queen? Bet he didn't think of that

and for comments like this you dont deserve to be British.
and youre evidently not Nigerian unless London is suddenly part of Nigeria?

Y'know there's that bit of history which covers a large portion of England's history, where we have a monarch, and a lot of our history is based on them but guess what? The Royal family is German

I don't really care if I'm British anyway. I am Nigerian because my parents are.

You can be 'Black' and British. You can be 'Asian' and British. If you believe you can't be and you are from one of such ethnicities, I urge you to leave the vicinity of the Isles immediately and never return. You are not welcome. Oh, and don't forget to cancel your citizenship (I'm the Secretary of State for the Home Department will be delighted to oblige).

It's fools like the above (i.e. those from ethnic minorities who believe you can't be from an ethnic minority and be British) that spur on all of the Anti-non-white sentiment and those arguments like 'they don't assimilate' blah blah.

Assimilate and stop passively fueling racism and nonsense! If you are a citizen of these Isles, you must abide by the rules and heed the culture and the language. Now, nobody is saying that you should disregard your roots (that would be silly), but you need to be aware of where you're living and why you're living there.