No, eventually everyone will look like a dark-skinned Afrikan. What began it all will end it all.

yah…maybe. who cares? fall in love and make some babies, y'all!!

Stating the obvious.

Barack looks very Kenyan. We will not all look very Kenyan.

And don't ask me what Kenyan looks like. I have the amazing ability to tell the nationality of African and Asian people simply by looking at them.

Nothing wrong with miscegenation, but I have a hard time getting excited about the day when people who are phenotypicially "just" African, "just" European, or "just" Asian are wiped off the face of the earth.

Loving people of different races is cool and all but I was never excited by how people gushed over it. I don't think it will be the end of racism.

And I always kind of felt like this rush to appreciate 'mixed beauty' tended to shine upon those of mixed races who still approximated Caucasian/western beauty standards with only the barest hint of the 'other' races.

Like the Black Barbie dolls, how much props should Mattel get for diversity when you see it the doll is just the same Barbie dipped in chocolate?

I am so happy to see these kinds of responses here. I clicked expecting the typical "biracial people are soo beautiful" comments that make me want to break my computer screen. I totally agree with Kjen. Anytime you constrain beauty to certain types of people its wrong– even if you like the idea that the union that created mixed people is progressive, appreciating the end result because its approaches whiteness is wrong. If people mix for the wrong reasons (valorizing whiteness/objectifying otherness) or if they appreciate beauty for the wrong reasons (exotic looking but not TOO black) then its wrong.

America's population may eventually look like Brazil or Puerto Rico… with very mixed-looking people… coincidentally, the folks who look like Barack, Mel B., Halle Berry and Shemar Moore will disproportionately be at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder. Their looks will be widely denigrated in favor of people who look like Kristen Kreuk, Keanu Reeves and Shakira. Of course, there will still be Giselles and Roshumbas, who will recieve inordinate amounts of praise and castigation, respectively, due to their existence on the poles of racial phenotypical expression. This may be more apparent and extreme due to their rarity among the general pop — for instance, the telenovelas chock full of bleached blonde Iberians look all the more suspicious when the population tuning in is majority mestizo and indigenous. The standard of beauty may not even change accordingly — looking like Scarlett Johanssen or Marisa Miller may just be that much more unattainable for your average joe or jane.

Also, the population that's most likely to retain their "purity" (which I think is a worthless concept for the record personally, but I'm using it in a sociological context, within which it has meaning) will be black people, due to everyone else keeping their distance from us socially at a higher rate than they do each other due to stereotypes, SES disparities and beauty standards. Look at the IR marriage rates — that's the future, but in a different way than people are saying… the rates of IR marriage are lower for black people than literally everyone else. This probably won't change a whole lot, even when the incidence level among all groups rises.

Like Indian comedian Russell Peters said, "You can run and you can hide, but sooner or later, we're gonna hump ya!"

My family began mixing up Southern Italians, Irish and Norwegians as soon as they got off the boat, and those are astonishingly different strains of white people! I have no idea how that worked. In this generation, ALL of my cousins married Puerto Ricans. We're branching out. Bring on the pleasantly caramel-colored people of tomorrow…