Why is the story about our new leader about his skin colour?

[Citizen's Nephew]

No, it's the literal headline. And the United States has an entirely different history to us on this.

And I was pissed (off) on Saturday!

This is all massively regressive. Why are we endlessly saying that our skin colours is the most important thing?

What are his policies? Why not state the fact he has won and been elected? Why tie it to something he has no control over?

I'm glad he was elected. His skin colour is part of his history but has zero bearing over who governs our schools, hospitals, roads, economies etc

We are not. People of colour regard it as pretty important considering centuries of white privilege and oppression. You're a white dude, right? There is no we. I'm a white dude. My wife's mother was South African, Cape Coloured/Malay. We're bystanders in this. You're being kind of naive or deliberately contrary if you don't get it. There's nothing regressive.