From Secret Wars #8 (1985). Rhodey was in the armor full-time back then, since Tony was at the tail end of the fallout from &amp;#8220;Demon in a Bottle.&amp;#8221;
I always thought this would be an interesting thread to pick back up on, either as a running Giffen/DeMatteis-style joke (Reed legitimately has no idea what race people are unless they tell him, because he&amp;#8217;s like Stephen Colbert and &amp;#8220;doesn&amp;#8217;t see color&amp;#8221;) or an ongoing thing (he&amp;#8217;s dealt with so many aliens that human racial differences just don&amp;#8217;t mean a thing to him).
Come to think of it, now I want to see Rhodey back interacting with the larger Marvel Universe again. They&amp;#8217;ve boiled a lot of his original characterization off of him, both due to the movies and just natural character growth (the general rule seems to be that the same retcon that took Tony&amp;#8217;s origin out of Vietnam also put Rhodey back into the military and got rid of his South Philly accent), but his time as Iron Man was always fun just because of his comparative blunt-force approach. I could see him playing off of DeConnick&amp;#8217;s Carol Danvers very well.