Obama: the blackness issue

I see that the RACE thing is rearing it's ugly head finally in the elections. Here's my soapbox delivery on this subject:

You know, I grew up with black kids in my classes at school, and one thing I noticed about them: they weren't any smarter or dumber than the rest of us. Most of them had "issues" with money, and having enough money was their biggest problem.
There was this girl in my class who was smart as a tack and a beauty with very dark skin, and her goal was to go to secretarial school. Reason being, she had money issues and this was all she could afford. That was back in '67, by the way, and money for school was not an easy thing to come by in those days.

Now, I personally feel that judging a person by the amount of melanin his/her skin is about the stupidest thing a person can do.
We ALL came out of Africa, if you want the total truth. We ALL started out black. Some of us lived in places where our skin adjusted to the different light and our skin got lighter, but in the beginning we were all the same. You can believe that God created us or whatever, but archeology does NOT lie--it's provable.
Now, I've known good and bad black people and I've know good and bad white people. To judge a person by his skin for his goodness or badness is flawed thinking. We've got some really nice black and asian people living right here in my neighborhood it so happens. And they are as respected as the white ones.
Here's the bottom line from where I sit:
IF you believe the Bible, then you don't believe that some people are worth more than others, and you don't believe that race matters. Jesus saw all colors equally...like that song says, "red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight."
So if you believe in Jesus, then you should not see skin color as a significant part of a person. It's an incidental finding, but it's not significant.
And if you can't get past the race issues, then I pray for you, and I hope you pray for your own shortsightedness and bias.
Because the God I believe in does not see skin color, he only sees what's in the heart and mind.
You can't tell a book by its cover and you can't judge a person by his skin.
May we all look that deeply and not just focus on what's on the outside.