No-one knows it all.

Last week's letter of the week was inflammatory and narrow minded

Ms or Mr Withheld decided to 'set the record straight' on Nubians’ motivation for dating whites. Who is Withheld to pontificate? A principle scholar? A pioneer?

So the reason is 'deeply rooted in slavery'. What then of Asian, Mediterranean , Oriental, South American on white dating? Colonialism no doubt

Don't say it; we intermix more than any other racial minority. Of course we do. This is where we're born. We are exposed more to this culture than any other. That's ultimately what's rooted in slavery.

And after your barrage of degrading reasons such as immigration status you neglected to mention friendship, sex, compatible values, mutual resonance, similar interests, intellectual stimuli, fondness and empathy borne of a forty hour week familiarity. And here's some mathematical logic. By mere nature of us being six per cent of a host nation scattered across the country, like a spoon of coffee in a mug of milk, there will be mixing and blending

Indeed, why and where would the Justin Fashanu's and the Trish Goddard’s seek a black partner?

I’m not discrediting all you say because much of it is right, but we'll alienate less of our brethren if we pointed the finger less and got out of this claustrophobic orgy of criticismn