howzdat wrote: Talking of which there is Dustin Brown, born in Celle, West Germany, dreadlocked hairstyle, playing @ Wimbledon.
Brown announced in June 2010, that due to a lack of funding and support from the Jamaican Tennis Association, he was tempted to switch nationality, and play professional tennis for Great Britain, his paternal grandparents being British.[4][5][6] However, in October 2010 he decided to compete for Germany, his country of birth, a move confirmed on his official Facebook page. Brown's first event playing under the German flag was Eckental.[7]
Talking of Dustin Brown, I remember him well as a young man. He learnt all his tennis in Montego Bay, as a kid at the same Upper Deck tennis club I used to take my daughter to. Sadly, lack of funding from a minority sport such as tennis is in the Caribbean, Dustin had to switch allegiance to Germany, where his mother is from.
As for Hughes, of course he's from Anguilla, which we all know is a British colony still, to this day. So, as a result, he can run for Britain, in much the same way another world-class long jumper, Shara Proctor, currently wears British colours and collects lottery funding. Hughes, like Delano Williams of Turks and Caicos, another British colony, benefitted from transferring from their local high schools to a Jamaican high school (Kingston College and Munro College respectively), to receive the best sprint coaching on the planet. They are now currently attached to senior track club Track Racers, coached by Glen Mills, who also coaches Bolt, and Mills last year received the coach of the year award from the IAAF. But both Hughes and Williams will be aspiring to compete for Britain and take home lottery funding.
I'm not really against that....
Seeing how England exploited Caribbean sugar and slavery in the 18th century to build up their wealth, I fully back Proctor, Williams and Hughes in their attempts to compete for Britain, and get lottery funding, just to get a fraction of that wealth back, for their ancestors who gave so much unpaid labour to the English economic machine!
What percentage of MCC board members are of Caribbean origin.
