I would love to believe that you are right – but I doubt it. At least if you extrapolate “the voters” to mean “all voters”.

There was a study done recently where a correlation was made of immigrants success based on skin shade. Participants were grouped by education, and by English skills. Even normalizing for those factors, it was found that lighter skinned immigrants from the same ethnic backgrounds had greater economic success than their darker skinned counterparts.

And personally, I don’t think that intelligence is correlated to melatonin.

We are getting much better as a society. We still have progress to make.

What attracted millions of voters to Obama’s candidacy was that he refused to play that game.

If the candidate talks like Thomas Sowell or Allen West, the voters won’t care how dark his skin is. They’ll consider voting for him.

But if the candidate talks like Al Sharpton or Reverend Wright, the voters won’t care if the candidate’s skin is nearly as light as a Caucasian. They’ll tune him out.

Frankly, most Americans of any kind aren’t as educated, etc. as Obama. But if we’re going to tell the truth regardless of what some people wish to see, regardless of whether some people could become discouraged by it, we’ll admit that there still aren’t enough educated, etc. black Americans in the public eye to make their presence no longer novel. Do you think noting that fact in public somehow must necessarily mean we want there to be fewer? Your reaction is hypersensitive, and it troubles me.