Hi Flip Flop, I know that this is momentous event in history bearing in mind the struggle for civil rights, and I don't want to minimise that, but I do feel the more people (of all shades and hues) bang on about colour, the more people think about it and the more of an issue it remains. Hopefully having a black president of the USA will make it less so. Wouldn't that be fantastic?
AOG, you're priceless. You start your post by complaining about people not sticking to the question, and going off at a tangent, and then you proceed to go off at a tangent yourself by asking other questions.
To answer your first one - I don't think anyone can deny that George Bush is a bit of a plonker, to say the least. Maybe that's why he was ridiculed.
As for your second one, some time ago I put this question to a friend who has a black father and a white mother. Her skin is white - you would never guess she�s the product of a mixed race marriage - but she tells me that she considers herself to be black, simply because her father is black. I don't know if others of mixed race feel the same way. Perhaps they'll tell us.