The Mother Country

I am very happy for the Americans. But Britain has had a part-black Head of State for at least 189 years today. George IV was the son of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, herself descended from the part-black Portuguese line, and described in her youth as having "negroid features". He was succeeded by another of Charlotte's sons, William IV, who was succeeded by Charlotte's granddaughter, Queen Victoria, from whom all subsequent monarchs have been directly descended.

Ah, Portugal, our dear old friend, where they even use GMT when we do, where they even use what we call British Summer Time when we do, and which allowed us to use the Azores during the Falklands War. Land of exceedingly multiethnic, indeed multiracial, Lusotropicalism (strikingly similar to a patriotic allegiance to the United Kingdom and to the Commonwealth), of which the Queen's "negroid" ancestress was so striking an example, but which we are all supposed to be delighted was overthrown by the Maoists, one of whom is now the neoconservative President of the European Commission.