A while back I was working as a cashier at a supermarket. I was just finishing a transaction for an older African-American woman when the next customers, a mother and her young daughter came on the line. The little girl looked up and immediately starting clapping her hands and chanting "Chocolate lady! Chocolate lady! Chocolate lady!" I have never seen anyone look as mortified as that mother did.
You really believe in a man who has helped to save the world twice, with the power to change his physical appearance? An alien who travels though time and space--in a police box?!?