One of the things I really like about our evolving on-line communities is that, in many cases, you don't know (and don't need to know) who's black and who's white. Exactly!

A note: not all Black Americans are of African descent.

I don't know how, but I think I have literally become colour-blind when it comes to seeing what colour people are. I have had to ask whoever I am with to tell me what they see as sometimes I cannot tell if someone is black, white or anything in-between. It is a curious phenomenon which started a few years ago.