Her ambition is to follow in her uncle’s speedy footsteps and win Olympic gold.
For Rachel Christie, that dream is still at least three years away. In the meantime, however, the 20- year-old niece of Linford Christie has just won another title – becoming the first ever black Miss England.
The professional track and field athlete swapped her running gear for high heels and a glamorous dress to win the contest on Monday night.
It means 5ft 10in Miss Christie will have to juggle her training schedule again as she prepares to face another hurdle – a bid for the Miss World crown in South Africa later this year.
But her win was under something of a cloud after the contest’s website showed that she had gained only nine votes in the public voting part of the competition, compared with fellow finalist Zoiey Smale, who got 2,013.
Although 20-year-old Miss Smale won the public vote, that was only enough to secure her a place in the last 15 of the final. In the event, she did not finish in the top three.
Part-time model Miss Christie had been one of the favourites to win Miss England, after being crowned Miss London City in May.
‘Whoever you are, you can be who you want and whatever you want to be if you just put your mind to it and have ambition and determination.’
Miss Christie trains six days a week at the stadium named after her uncle in Shepherd’s Bush, West London, and is already highly ranked at the 400 metres and the heptathlon. Her brother James, 22, also trains at the stadium.
Their father Russell had been a promising athlete but unlike his brother Linford, who won Olympic gold in the 200 metres in Barcelona in 1992, fell into crime.
On the night of Linford’s Olympic glory, a warrant was issued for Russell’s arrest for allegedly stealing clothes and handling stolen credit cards.
In 1994 came a three-year sentence for theft and beating up a lover. He was stabbed to death in 1996 after becoming involved in a drugs war.
Miss Christie, who lives with her mother Diana Kiss, two brothers and a sister, says it was her father’s death that made her think about ‘what’s important’ in life.
While her ambition and focus is fired by memories of her father, her inspiration is her uncle. Growing up in West London, the whole family used to gather round the television to watch him compete.
She began athletics training aged 11, but fell in with ‘the wrong people’ and lost focus until she realised that she did not want a future ‘on benefits’. After an 18-month injury break she is now fighting back, and aims to shave seconds off her personal bests to join the British Olympic team.
Her venture into the world of beauty pageants was partly driven by a need for more money to fund her training.
‘I applied to Miss England because I thought it might give me an entry into legitimate modelling and that would help me fund my training,’ she said.
She added: ‘We struggled for years, we had no holidays, no car – the day we children got something we wanted was a rare one. So I know I have to work hard.
‘When you begin with very little, maybe you have to aim high.’
Last night rumours continued to fly about whether her family name had helped her win a place in the final.
Miss Smale, who competed as Miss Oxfordshire, said: ‘I felt quite let down as did all the girls that I spoke to because the ranking three didn’t win any of the awards that were available for our hard work in the run-up to the finals.
‘There were so many things we had to do. Yet none of it mattered at the end of the day.
The public vote was supposed to be acting as one of the judges’ decisions. It was a big deal to me, but on the night it felt like it meant nothing.’
Calls to register a public vote cost more than 60p each – and only small print on the official website indicates that a ‘vote does not mean a contestant will win the competition’.
Organiser Angie Beasley said all the girls knew success in the public vote would only secure a ‘fast-track’ place in the last 15 and counted as one-seventh of the final judging decision.
She said Miss Christie also had a fast-track place because she was representing a cosmetics company. Half the finalists were fast-track contestants.
Soldier Kat Hodge is glowing with the thrill of taking second place in the Miss England contest – and nursing a pair of very tender feet.
In her day job, the Lance Corporal is used to wearing sturdy boots, but for the beauty pageant these were replaced by a pair of heels. The 22-year-old clerk with the Adjutant General’s Corps is probably the only entrant to Miss England who has a commendation for bravery.
Miss Hodge, from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, was only 18 and was serving in Iraq with the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment when she leapt into action after the vehicle she was travelling in overturned.
It gave an Iraqi insurgent time to grab two rifles and threaten the soldiers. Miss Hodge punched him and retrieved the guns.
She said she entered the competition because she wanted to do something different and promote the Forces. ‘I’m really proud to be in the Forces. The Army made me who I am. It’s taught me so much and given me so many skills, so I want to be able to give something back.’
She has been doing some modelling work, but added: ‘My ambition is still with the Army. I’m not kidding myself I’m going to be the next Kate Moss.’
As for the men she works with, she said: ‘They are more interested in the other girls in their bikinis. I’m just another lad.’
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Hi everybody,
When someone is living somewhere for a long time and even doesn’t know how his forefather’s land is look like, then she or he doesn’t belong to that part of the world anymore so stop acting like a racist.
Every human being is beautiful so please show some respect.
for those who still doesn’t believe I’ll tell them look at South Africa then judge yourself.
Happy Newroz Kurdish new year of 2711 [21-03-2011]
Now I know why the English are considered the ugliest people on earth according to beautifulpeople.com
That is one fucking ugly nigger dog.
the woman has :-D some white blood, but still ugly as hell
I live in the U.S. and it has been a treat to read all the comments and viewpoints.
Blacks cannot help being black. However, there are very few (almost zero) black leaders who have tried to improve the lives of blacks. The leaders blame everything negative that happens to a black on white racism. They make excuses and never want to critique their own race. The U.S. government has given enough to black causes to have made millionaires out of every single black…….The world is changing and whites are getting tired of the constant accusations of unfair treatment, racism, and the like for any comment made. Our President is black and he has done more to destroy America in 9 months than any of our known enemies. yet, when he is critised…..blacks rally on every network saying the feeling are racially motivated. My advise to any country…..Never elect a person who you will never be able to criticize.
Conclusion: Blacks can always return to the Country they reference so often…African American….placing Africa in a superior position. Second, no society has done more for the black race than whites….churches, organizations, habitat, etc. What would the economic conditions of the U.S. be without the blacks we have to subsidize?….43 million blacks. Slavary ended in 1865 …No slave owner is still on earth and no slave is still on earth…no one here has owned slaves and no one here hs been a slave…Enough Already.
The Insurgent the comment on cannibilism was far fetched, as you have forgotten abot the cave men, who clubbed each other ate raw meat and ate each other for years upon years, even now in the news cannibals are rarely non white
The insurgent and Sean you do have fair points and yes it is clear where this out of control increase of aides is coming from, maybe certain men should be steralised if it would protect women everywhere. if those statistics are anything to go by , it is very necessary.
To John:
It really does not matter to me whether you agree with me or not, because the facts bear out my claim: sub-Saharan African civilizations have been the least awe-inspiring over the centuries. I have studied the great civilizations of different continents and peoples, so I know what I’m talking about. I am yet to discover a genuinely black African civilization to challenge comparison with imperial China, great India or Persia, Ottoman Turkey, or the great nation-states of Europe.
As for your claim that “Black people were enslaved, lynched murdered and raped for centuries , they were not allowed to make anything, have anything, own anything ro claim anything even if they FOUND IT!”, this is certainly true, but is even more true with regard to the American Indian. He lost two continents, including the Caribbean islands that I hail from, to European encroachers. Yet, one can still find highly impressive material remains of his grand cultures in the Central Andes and Meso-America. Where can you find anything comparable in sub-Saharan Africa?
And, finally, I am no “racist biggot” as you allege, given that I am of both European and African descent. I am, however, able to stare the facts in the face without batting an eyelid.
Ciao!
To PRETTY BLACK WOMAN; ‘tables are turning’? I see no turns at all, only the usual hooked-nose troublemakers using YOU blacks for their 2000-yrs old ‘dreams’. Which, by the way will fail just before it would became true…
I can’t see what is yours in AMERICA and in ENGLAND. Both are Whites-founded countries. Are you sure you finished elementary school 1st grade? Some kids aged 6-7 very smart they already know, Europe and America belong to White Europeans. You have NOTHING. You have Africa (and you can keep it as well), but what can you do with your own continent in the last 10.000 years???
Nigger-promoters, here is your next reading with references:
Article Source: CofCC news
Based on a 96 page report on the causes of premature death by the CDC, the leading cause of death among young blacks of both sexes appears to be black men. See report.
AIDS.
According to the CDC, black men are ten times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV or AIDS than white men. Among black men who allege that they have never engaged in a homosexual act, the figure rises to about 15 times the rate that heterosexual white men are diagnosed. Studies by the CDC also conclude that black men are more likely to have HIV or AIDS and go undiagnosed than white men.
All of this translates to black women being diagnosed with HIV or AIDS at a rate of over 20 times that of white women. The general trend is for black men to catch HIV/AIDS from each other in prison and then give it to black women when they are released. The CDC believes that 74% of black women who have HIV/AIDS contracted it through heterosexual contact with a man.
A 2004 report by the CDC says that AIDS is the:
* the leading cause of death for black women aged 25–34 years.
* the 3rd leading cause of death for black women aged 35–44 years.
* the 4th leading cause of death for black women aged 45–54 years.
By way of comparison, AIDS was only the 11th leading cause of death for white women aged 25-34!
HOMICIDE
The same CDC reports say that homicide is the:
* the leading cause of death among black men aged 15-34 years. (Three age categories!)
* the second leading cause of death for black women aged 15-24 years.
* the fifth leading cause of death for black women aged 25-34 years.
Among women aged 15-24, homicide accounts for 5% of premature deaths in white females, but 20% of all premature deaths by black females.
Among both black and white men, homicide deaths peak at aged 25-34. The death rate by homicide among white men in this age group is 12.5 per 100k, and accounts for 10% of all premature deaths. The death rate by homicide among blacks in this age group is 101.8 per 100k, and accounts for 48% of all premature deaths.
The majority of black female homicide victims are killed by a current or former boyfriend, which many refer to as “femicide.” About 93% of all black homicide victims are killed by a black perpetrator overall. 85% of white homicide victims are killed by a white perpetrator.
“The National Black Women’s Health Project” has identified the battering of women as the number one health issue for African American women (Joseph, 1997).
Femicide is a leading cause of premature deaths in African American women aged 15-44. (Journal of Issues in Nursing Vol 7, No. 1)
In 1998, Salber and Taliaferro reported that the spousal homicide rate among African Americans is 8.4 times more than for whites. The incidence of spousal homicide is 7.7 times higher in interracial marriages compared to intraracial marriages. (Source WebMD.com)
Relationships with black men dramatically increase a woman’s chances of dying young.
Black females aged 15-19 are 3.9 times more likely to die of homicide or AIDS than white females in the same age group. This increases to 4.4 time for females aged 20-24 and 7.3 times for 25-34.
White women who engage in relationships with black men dramatically increase their chances of premature death or long term health problems from murder, beatings, and STDs.
See also: Midwest Free Press
Two more notes to your posting John: Black slaves were taken to America by JEWISH MERCHANTS, please double check on this, even Louis Farrakhna, your leader wrote about that. The ships, carried the slaves to New World had jiddish names (moses, jacob, Abraham, etc.)
Remind you: there were many White slaves as well among them. And at least but not the last, the african slave-traders were entirely Blacks.
You can find this historical info in Internet. Do your time.
2nd, I don’t think mulatto girls make higher in education than british (White boys). Maybe teh stat you read want to say: MULATTO girls do better than pure black “british boys”.
That’s affirmative. I made that comment in my previous statement.
Just bc you think one president had a bastard from a slave, it will make the White race polluted with that bastard? I don’t think so. It was his own problem, not ours. Mulatto children – thanks to the higher IQ of Whites grades higher IQ.
Furthermore, blacks are raped, tortured and murdered – by balcks. In Africa balcks sold (and sell as well) blacks to slavery, blacks tortured (and torture as well), raped (and rape as well), murdered (and still murdered) by blacks as we speak. In recent months somalian blacks raped BLACK MEN, not just women and/or ate their victims as a “sign of overcome” and victory over another tribe.
Don’t try to blame on Whites your own cannibalism. Whites, Europeans tried several times to civilize the african continent, it did work for awhile. As of the South African and Zimbabwean example showed – blacks cannot learn, or be educated. Even in higher societies such as USA, blacks murder blacks, tied to drugs and crimes and all deviant behaviors. If anywhere, in USA they really have the chance to change if theyw ant to, but they don’t. Blacks can’t associate and assimilate in civilization. Whites can’t jump, so what? We have – along with the smart and hard-working Asian people – thousands of years culture and civilization which helped Mankind in many ways. Africans simply stopped on the evolution steps 100.000 years ago. I don’t think u will be able to move from that point, ever!
Againt to The Insurgent you can not use a whoel race of people for centuries and turn around and expect them to worship you, they built your ‘great america’ was even raped by an american president,
IT IS US WHITE PEOPLE WHY BREEDING CAME AND MIXED RACED PEOPLE, CHECK OUT YOUR PAST PRESIDENT AND HIS MIXED CHILDREN (President Thomas Jefferson Fathered Child With Slave)
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53268563.html
I strongly disagree with Sean the least impressive would ahve to be us white people. Im not going to be biased but if we did not use slaves, America would not ahve been built to this day there is no denying this and as for IQ
BLACK BRITISH AFRICANS GIRLS ARE OUT ACHIEVING HIGHER THAN WHITE BRITISH BOYS IN ALL FIELDS OF EDUCATION, GCSE’S TO DEGRESS. Guess that throws a spanner in yout racism.
Black people were enslaved, lynched murdered and raped for centuries , they were not allowed to make anything, have anything, own anything ro claim anything even if they FOUND IT!. EVEN AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT RAPED A BLACK WOMEN SLAVE.
Do your homework racist biggot!
and alfred there’s no point saying go back to africa when US WHITE PEOPLE TOOK THEM OUT OF THERE!
We caused immigration these people can not be blamed, racism will get you no where
and alfred there’s no point saying go back to africa when US WHITE PEOPLE TOOK THEM OUT OF THERE!
We caused immigration these people can not be blamed, racism will get you no where
I strongly disagree with Sean the least impressive would ahve to be us white people. Im not going to be biased but if we did not use slaves, America would not ahve been built to this day there is no denying this and as for IQ
BLACK BRITISH AFRICANS GIRLS ARE OUT ACHIEVING HIGHER THAN WHITE BRITISH BOYS IN ALL FIELDS OF EDUCATION, GCSE’S TO DEGRESS. Guess that throws a spanner in yout racism.
Black people were enslaved, lynched murdered and raped for centuries , they were not allowed to make anything, have anything, own anything ro claim anything even if they FOUND IT!. EVEN AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT RAPED A BLACK WOMEN SLAVE.
Do your homework racist biggot!
I have no choice but to agree with “The Insusgent” above, given that genuinely black African civilizations have generally been the least impressive on the planet. For instance, who in his/her right mind would compare the civilization of Ghana with that of classical Greece? Or Mali with imperial China? Or the Songhai Kingdom with the Moghul Dynasty of India? Non-black groups have bequeathed to us a splendid heritage of monumental architecture: just think of the castles of Japan, the mosques of Turkey, the Toltec-Mayan temples of Yucatan, Mexico, the Taj Mahal of India, and the fabulous castles and cathedrals of Europe. Then turn your attention to sub-Saharan Africa, and all you will find are huts of mud with thatched roofs! I really don’t care if I am mindlessly flamed for saying this, because it is the unpleasant, but incontestable, truth. The Oriental man has created and sustained great civilizations over extended periods of time. So has the American Indian. The white, Caucasian man has perhaps outshone everyone else in this regard. But it is sad to have to admit that the black African man appears to be more or less incapable of creating and sustaining a viable, long-term civilization. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise!
Oh we do care! Many of us, do. In fact your nick says WHITE ANGEL. So you chosen White over Black, or RAINBOW angel.
We have differences in brain, IQ (blacks have the lowest) and culture, skin, eyes, BLOOD, you name it.
If God would like to have ONE race on Earth, then He would create only one race. But there are many. In fact, Whites and Asians created long-lasting cultures, civilizations, while the blacks have nothing but cannibalism, voodoos and tribal wars with women/men raped.
Look at Africa; how many composers, scientists, engineers, or any gift offered to Mankind? Now, look at Europe and Asia. You see a sea of gifts. Case closed. You can read this message and answer it bc White men discovered the matrix system, electronics, physics and used their brains and high IQs to make it work for all of us. Go to USA and see what niggers do: rapes, crimes, murders, rap-crap, KFC (thats even a Whiote man’s shop for them), blown-out woindows, filth, devastated black ‘neighborhoods’. Then go to Whites-only neighborhoods, in some you can even leave yopur car-keys in the ignition… but don;t even think to stop for 3 minutes in a niggers’-infested war-hole. Anywhere I look: White is right!
14/88!
Who cares? What was mean’t to be was mean’t to be. The world is a forever changing place nothing is really ours as everything in life is borrowed.
All humans are beautiful and we all have the same blood, eyes, skin teeth and bones. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. For the record, The Miss England is v. pretty.
The judeo-bolsheviks which want to erradicate the prosperous, therefore well-educated White race. The racemixers are jews. The homo-promoters are jews. The war-mongers are jews. The hate-mongers are jews.
Switzerland was a beautiful, nice, German-French-Italian speaking country. In the mid-’80s it became a cesspool of nigger, arab and gypsy sanctuary. To choose an ugly nigga bitch for ”Miss Switzerland” is to brainwash the Schweizer people into the colorization of White Europe.
Let them do it! The more they do, the more hatred they get. I hear already people know the JEW behind every shit. Let the jew play his dirty games. We Europeans say: fine, but the next holocaust you will have it will be REAL. God hates the jews!
“we all came from africa. due to sunshine the skin changed over millions of years.”
In fact, recent research suggests that 7% or more of all our genes have undergone changes through natural selection over the last tens of thousands of years. There was little gene flow between continental clusters (“races”) during that period.
Two groups that form distinct clusters are likely to exhibit different frequency distributions over various genes, leading to group differences.
This leads us to two very distinct possibilities in human genetic variation:
Hypothesis 1: (the PC mantra) The only group differences that exist between the clusters (races) are innocuous and superficial, for example related to skin color, hair color, body type, etc.
Hypothesis 2: (the dangerous one) Group differences exist which might affect important (let us say, deep rather than superficial) and measurable characteristics, such as cognitive abilities, personality, athletic prowess, etc.
Already it appears that a fair fraction of the recent changes are neurological and likely to affect behavior in some way. For example, you see new versions of SLC6A4, a serotonin transporter, in Europeans and Asians. There’s a new version of a gene (DBA1) that shapes the development of the layers of the cerebral cortex in east Asia.
Roumania is known for being a cesspool of prostitution,slackness,etc..99.9% of roumanians are gypsies,short and ugly.So where is the fuss?
To begin with, the correct term is “racialist”, formed from the adjective “racial”. Secondly, how could it be wrong to want to preserve your own racial and ethnic identity in your ancestral homeland? Western Europe is gradually being swamped by foreigners of non-European stock, but African and Indian populations are, by and large, intact. Is this an acceptable trend by any stretch of one’s imagination? I, myself, am a mixed-race Caribbean person of Northwest European (Scottish & Irish), African and Indian descent, yet I have no compunctions about declaring that Europe should remain Caucasian. Does that make me a “self-hater” and a “racialist”? No it does not!
RACIST!!!!!
the admin who wrote this, your topic title is vulgar!. our a racist
no wonder your country is a dump FUCKIGN ROMANIAN IMMIGRANTS KEEP COMING TO ENGLAND… FUCK OF RMANIS
WE ONLY WANT BLACK AND INDIANS WITH WHITE PEOPLE INE NGLAND
we all came from africa. due to sunshine the skin changed over millions of years. but we are all cousins of each other. sorry to make the uk racists look like idiots…
its proven in dna research
To Pretty Black Woman: England certainly was never part of Africa and Neither was North America, can’t quite grasp what is righfuly yours… I would love to see what would happen if a white woman was elected say Miss Nigeria… The people would see who is ignorant. You can’t take back what was never yours. North America belonged to American Indians (otherwise referred to as Native Americans) as for England it changed hands many times, but never in history of England was it conquered by an African nation and just before you start bragging about the chip on your shoulder and the slavery it was the BLACK kings who sold their BLACK slaves to white people not the other way round. Grow up this is not about race it is about intellect if Obama was elected it is not because US is his but because he has brans for it and just because your are black no one will kiss your bum for being so.
gb2 africa
Ohhh how we hate…the US has a Black President and now England has a Black Miss England…oh how the tables are turning…we are only taking back whats rightfully ours…
Have a blessed one you ignorant bastard!