How come black people don't get knighted in england?

Question

hmm? why is it always usually like an old white geezer...?

Answer 1

They do get knighted.You should do a bit more reading.

Answer 2

Being knighted is the same as being awarded a KBE, which is a type of investiture (you may have heard the story of Kylie Minogue being awarded an OBE, which is similar, but not as "important", and you are not allowed to call yourself "sir" or "dame"). Investitures are awarded for "services to society", and it just so happens that most people who recieve them are not black (although black people do get knighted)

Answer 3

Sir Sydney Poitier, Dame Shirley Bassey and Emperor Amha Selassie were knighted.  Soccer legend Pele and General Powell have an honorary knighthood.  President Mugabe of Zimbabwe was stripped of his honorary knighthood last month for human rights violations in the voting scandal.  

But "old white geezers" do outnumber everyone else.

Answer 4

Dude, in two sentences you have solved the problem for her

Answer 5

Well first off you have to be English, which most black people aren't, but there are English black people who get knighted. So honestly your questions invalid.

Answer 6

Sir Trevor MacDonald is a black Knight

White people outnumber black people in England it's as simple as that. Honours are given irrespective of colour.

Answer 7

watch news at ten on ITV..............

Answer 8

Oh but they do! One of our most respected News readers is Sir Trevor MacDonald.One of our former great cricketers is Sir Garfield (Gary) Sobers.Dame Shirley Bassey, Dame Kelly Holmes, etc., the list goes on.

         In order to receive a Knighthood you have to be a citizen of the British Commonwealth of Nations. This is why people from the West Indies, Canada, Australia etc., were knighted but Bob Geldof was not, as he comes from the Republic of Ireland. He did, however, receive an Honorary Knighthood for his humanitarian work.

        And, sorry, Sydney Poitier is not a knight, as he is not British.

Answer 9

Black people do get knighted.If you were to go to http://www.royal.gov.uk/output/Page4877....

on the bottom of the page a black woman,Double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes displays the insignia of a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire at Buckingham Palace.

She isn't the only black person to have received and honor.Perhaps if you learned how to do some good old-fashioned research,you'd come across many other honorees of color!

Dame Shirley Bassey...Dame Cleo Laine...

why not visit the site I gave above and read more? Another site is http://www.honours.gov.uk/

Answer 10

racism, no doubt

Answer 11

Name the black people in England who deserve to get knighted.

EDIT: Actually, quite a few have gotten knighted and have deserved it.

Answer 12

Black judges do, at the same rank as white judges.

Sir Trevor Macdonald

Dame Shirley Bassey (same rank as knight)

And I thought you might be interested to know that the British Royal Family has had some black blood in it for a long time.

Consort of George III and Queen Victoria's grandmother, Queen Charlotte, wife of the English King George III (1738-1820), was directly descended from Margarita de Castro y Sousa, a black branch of the Portuguese Royal House. The riddle of Queen Charlotte's African ancestry was solved as a result of an earlier investigation into the black magi featured in 15th century Flemish paintings. Two art historians had suggested that the black magi must have been portraits of actual contemporary people (since the artist, without seeing them, would not have been aware of the subtleties in colouring and facial bone structure of quadroons or octoroons which these figures invariably represented) Enough evidence was accumulated to propose that the models for the black magi were, in all probability, members of the Portuguese de Sousa family.

Six different lines can be traced from English Queen Charlotte back to Margarita de Castro y Sousa, in a gene pool which because of royal inbreeding was already minuscule, thus explaining the Queen's unmistakable African appearance.

Colin Powell is an honourary Knight Commander of the Bath, but being a US citizen, is not addressed as Sir Colin.

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