The future of action? OK, another Time article, this time about Vin Diesel. The article gives a lot of play to the fact that Diesel is consciously multi-racial:

With his exotic looks — olive skin and full lips — he's widely assumed to be of Italian and African heritage, but Diesel resolutely refrains from identifying his ethnicity. One Race is the name of his production company, and he refers to himself simply as "multicultural." "I support the idea of being multicultural primarily for all the invisible kids, the ones who don't fit into one ethnic category and then find themselves lost in some limbo," says Diesel, 35, as he dips into a bowl of hummus on the patio of Los Angeles' gothic Chateau Marmont hotel.

Steve Sailer has noted that some want Diesel to play Hannibal in a new flick. Others are pushing Denzel Washington. Now, though I think that Diesel is phenotypically closer to Hannibal-I'm not sure if he can bring the sort of iron tragic gravity to the story of the ancient Carthaginian that someone like Washington is known for. Though I'm skeptical that most Americans will ever be multiracial-in areas like entertainment it makes sense that future stars will attempt to appeal to the greatest number of people world-wide, and so present a non-racial (ambiguous at least) image on the silverscreen. In addition-in areas like science and business where meritocracy rules (supposedly) the socialization of races together will no doubt lead to many cross-racial marriages. Those who will remain mono-racial will be those rooted to place and time and content with the ancient ties that bind of faith, family and stable placidity outside the main freeways of the global economy. Basically, the vast majority of the human race.