Barack Obama might be the first Asian-American president. Michelle Malkin responds by claiming she's black. Robert Downey, Jr. is a white actor playing a white actor playing a black character in the soon-to-be-released comedy Tropic Thunder. He's either in blackface, post-blackface, or wearing some kind of meta-blackface. Vanessa Hudgens--who is Chinese, Filipina, Latina, Irish, and Native American--tells Teen Vogue that she loves that her High School Musical character Gabriella is "Hispanic" because "it's nice to be able to stand up for people who don't have someone to look up to very often." To paraphrase our Pinaysian Intern Jasmine, guess her Chinese, Filipina, and Native American fans are SOL when it comes to role models. Wait, Vanessa Hudgens is a role model??

In other news, I just looked in the mirror, and I'M STILL ASIAN. Phew.