>>Yes it will. I remind myself on a regular basis that we are still the same country that elected a black president - so there is hope.
Oh well, NZ had its first brown Prime Minister in 1909. First female Prime Minister in 1997. Currently has a female Prime Minister- who is pregnant.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1