Hey, this predates Obama by a loooooooooooooooooooong shot.

I grew up white-but-not-imperialistic (a la straight but not narrow) in post-colonial francophone west Africa, mostly in the Ivory Coast in the 60's and 70's, and saw a lot, lot of racism.

Nothing prepared me for how racist America was when I got here for college. And it got a lot worse when I moved to the South from New England in the 80's.

And no matter how racist we Americans are as a mass not as individuals, boy are we even more sexist.

That is why we can't have a female president. If we want to get anything DONE we have to have a white man. A woman would not only be ignored, she'd be condescended to beyond belief. But that's another thread.

I am actually very very interested in the opinions of the Europeans among us, specifically on the Ferguson current riotage.