Mick, "thanks" doesn't seem enough for your kind sharing with us. I would offer this, though, as it seems to be okay for this thread, too.

I was talking with my son tonight, expressing how incredible I felt about this, telling him about the friends I have who marched with King and fought for civil rights and how meaningful it is to have a man of mixed race, like his nephews, elected to be president. My son said he understood how important it is to remember where we have been, but to his generation and his sisters' Obama was the best there was to vote for and the thought of his mixed race didn't come into why they voted for him. I know and he knows there are still folks in his generation who do care about the colour of a person's skin, but it made me very happy to know there is no distinction when it comes to my kids. As my daughter, mother of mixed race twins, say, "We are all part of the human race."