Quote Originally Posted by Animeniax
Actually him being black would work against the US, especially in the middle east and East Asia, where a brother can't get a break. Just ask Rockmanj. Both areas are notoriously racist, particularly against American blacks.
Somehow I think it would be different for the president of the USA, though, compared to tourists or exchange students or random company workers transferred abroad. Few could afford to dismiss the leader of the biggest player in the global market just because of his skin colour.

I don't know if Obama feels anything towards Africa but maybe he does and would try to fix a few things over there. Europe is too disjointed and has too many old issues they can't overcome to do much good over there, Russia "fixes" things only by selling AKs and nuclear reactors, and China would deal with the devil for a little oil, so that leaves the USA as the only one who could make a real difference, I guess. Though I realise how unfair it's to automatically assume the USA would or could fix all the problems in the world...