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Veerpalu the new Linford Christie By Abdul Turay Publish December 10 2011 Skiing superstar's Andrus Veerpalu reputation had died and with it the belief of an entire nation. I once said that Estonians act and think like black people. This sorry mess with Andrus Veerpalu seems to confirms it. Something very similar happened to my own people about a decade ago. There are about one and a half million black people in Britain, about the same number as the population of Estonia. We are also called Afro-Caribbean because most of us have roots in the former British colonies in the Caribbean. Estonians tend to think of black culture in term of black Americans or black Africans they do not think about black British culture or black European culture of any description for that matter. This is common ,the World thinks like. It's frustrating. The black community in Britain feels, somewhat, neglected. Our achievements, our literature, our art, our music and our science is rarely celebr