Okay, this is just a question, but between Jon & Kate Gosselin and their disaster of a marriage and the spotlight seeking "Balloon Boy" family, aren't Mixed-race families looking bad in TV land?

Do you think viewers will make anything of the fact the fact that these two train-wreck families happen to be interracial families when they evaluate all of the ridiculousness going on in their homes? Or will the race of the family members just be a non-issue? Is the American viewing public able to look past race?

Maybe a month ago I might have said yes, but then after that hullabaloo in New Orleans, where a certain justice of the peace refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, I'm not so sure. Many people still think there is something inherently wrong with people of different races marrying and raising a family. They think it can't work. That's it's wrong somehow. I know. Crazy right?

Well, what do you think? Will people judge these families through the prism of race or not? Let's hear it?