That's about the same as in Canada. I have had every different race in my building. As long as they pay their rent on time and don't cause any problems for me or their neighbors, then I say live and let live.
I only asked that question because your American TV news networks were commenting on the increased security around the White House before Barack Obama took the Oath of Office, and I was wondering why they would protect him more than any other President. It wasn't until they mentioned the possibility of an assassination attempt that it dawned on me that that could be a very real concern. But, to be honest, I thought to myself, "Wow, do those people still exist?"
Barack struck me (and prolly most people) as being a middle of the road, level headed, thoughtful kinda guy, and would prolly make an OK president, or at least no worse a president than anyone else. It struck me as odd that anyone would want to kill him just cuz he wasn't white.
Following your post, I Googled Alan Keyes and came up with the Wikipedia biography on him.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Keyes
He seemed like a level headed kinda guy until I came to this part:
Obama citizenship lawsuit
Keyes filed a lawsuit on November 14, 2008 against the California Secretary of State, then-Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and California's 55 Democratic electors, seeking to challenge Obama's eligibility for the US Presidency. The suit requests that Obama provide documentation that he is a natural born citizen of the United States.
Following Obama's inauguration, Keyes denied he had been constitutionally inaugurated, refused to call him president, and called him an "usurper" and a "radical communist".
I'll be the first to admit that having been born in Indonesia, Barack Obama would not be considered "a natural born citizen" of your country. I expect that part of the constitution requires that the President be born in the US. However, given that the overwhelming majority of Americans were willing to set aside that requirement, it strikes me as "sour grapes" that Alan Keyes wouldn't, and chose to pursue it through the court system. Technically, Alan Keyes had a legal point, but it seems to me that on an issue like the choosing of a President, the will of the American people should prevail despite this requirement in your constitution. (although I'm no constitutional expert by any means) The Constitution establishes America as a democracy, and to use it's rules to unseat a democratically chosen President seems to me to be "undemocratic".
Also, once elected and having taken the Oath of Office, to call Obama a "radical communist" strikes me as just sour grapes, or the same kind of partisanship politics that's a mainstay in both Ottawa and Washington. I, for one, want the person who's supposed to be my "representative" in Ottawa to be open minded and willing to work with everyone, regardless of their political stripe, just as I would and I'm sure all Americans would as well.
I expect that Alan Keyes has excellent qualifications and a lot of experience, but I think he probably regrets some of his decisions in this particular matter. After all, the President of the United States isn't just the head of your country. The President of the United States, like it or not, also becomes a world leader. The decisions he makes can and do affect everyone in the world, so, to that extent he has to carefully consider the broad implications of everything he says and does. I'm sure that Alan Keyes realizes that calling Barack Obama a "radical communist" was a gross overstatement. Barack leans left, but there's an awful lot of space between him and Fidel (who really was a radical and a communist).
So, what's PBR? And, do you drink it out of a bottle or is it home made?