Nitpicky?

This writer complains because our "linguists" have yet to come up with the perfect term to describe Obama's skin colour. Seriously. He's not black and he's not white, says the author, so what do we call him? This is, apparently, "racism embedded in language at the deepest level."

Tellingly, they also say: "Why can’t the linguists come up with 50 words to accurately describe color in the same way the Inuit have 50 words to describe all the varieties of 'snow?'" But in fact, the Inuits have hardly any words to describe snow, and even if they have many, we have more. See here.