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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Obama is the new black

For some kids in the less diverse areas of the country, any black stranger is Obama.

I’ve heard from 2 different friends with very young children being raised in, ahem, more homogeneous areas of the country who have taken to calling any black strangers Obama.