You don't suppose som would have difficulties accepting a black person as president of the USA? In relation to your previous post.

I don't think that racism against those poor immigrants in their country points to how Arabs would treat a foreign black president very well; for instance, see how well Colin Powell has been received in Saudi, despite the way Africans have been treated by many Saudis.

interestingly, as Abu Aardvark notes in his blog, many of the Arab organizers and activists who came to an US-Islamic world forum in Doha were most interested in Obama, who they seem to see as presenting hope of dialogue, whereas Clinton causes concern and McCain, fear. [implicitly of an extension of the war in Iraq, possibly developing into Iran]

http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2008/02/reflecting-on-d.html

Most of the Arab participants I talked to seemed
fascinated by Obama, and frightened by McCain.

No. Not in any way comparable.

(I note as an aside, Malek was talking about racism indigenous in the Arab world, not racism against immigrants.)

As I noted at the time, racism in the Arab world resembles Brazilian racism, in which money, power or family ties are perfectly acceptable 'whitening' agents. Or to put differently, racial perception is more situational than in US of A or Northern Europe.

No. Not in any way comparable.

(I note as an aside, Malek was talking about racism indigenous in the Arab world, not racism against immigrants.)

As I noted at the time, racism in the Arab world resembles Brazilian racism, in which money, power or family ties are perfectly acceptable 'whitening' agents. Or to put differently, racial perception is more situational than in US of A or Northern Europe.