[awakened]

You wrote: "We haven't even figured out how to 'deal with' black people here in the US..."

That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.

[duaneb]

Ok, so we dealt with a single black person—now what about the community?

[Nux]

I doubt mr Obama is at all African, he was born in Honolulu for crying out loud. All this crap with African-American is annoying and needs to stop. You don't call white citizens European-American, do you?

[cbennett]

“I doubt mr Obama is at all African”

<Baracks> father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a Luo from Nyang’oma Kogelo, Kenya

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama