re: #180 Truck Monkey I posted on another thread why his lips are blue. He is a REAL African…not a watered down African American. My BIL has a name for people like that…”blurple”…so black that they are purple (which of course is a shade of blue). BTW, my BIL can say that because he is black. To be honest, I am suprised at how lite skinned Obama is because Kenyans are one of the darker groups. It has nothing to do with smoking.