Being proud has nothing to do with color it has everything to do with who the person is.
I discovered something interesting about myself several years ago, about the time Collin Powell was initially bantered about as a Presidential candidate and before I knew anything about what his true political (RINO) tendancies were.
Powell was a Republican and seemed like an American loving patriot in the lead up to Gulf War II. I liked some of his no-nonsense talk at the UN etc. I was researching him as a candidate (with an open mind) when a friend asked me, "Do you think he could be our first black President?"
Until that very instant, I had never considered, nor did I care or thought about what difference the color of his skin made. Of course I knew Powell was black and hoped he was a true conservative (obviously he wasn't/isn't). The point is, the epiphany of my color blindness with regards to race made me feel pretty good about America (and to a lesser extent myself).
Fast forward to today, where the very fact that Obama is black is the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF HIS PRESIDENCY. This country is in full regression with this ba#%@&d at the helm. Freedom, racism, the economy, world influence, sexism, etc. is all going in the wrong direction for the individual citizens of the US.
For many his color is indeed the most important part of him. For him though, his color is a tool and the most important part of his presidency is some mixture of revenge, power and money for reasons that are manifold. He has a collections of accomplices and encouragers that are equally obsessed.