Yeah I remembered him as white.  But, if you'll recall in Ultimate Spiderman Nick is black.  Still either way he's a cool charcter.  Some other interesting changes for the Ultimate Marvel Universe are:

Wolverine is Irish and has red hair and his claws are now in his feet.
Professor x isn't a cripple, but he has no arms AND he's a pedifile.
Ultimate Hulk is not green anymore... he's yellow... because he's now scared of everything.
Storm is still black, but she's a she-male and wears very tight outfits.
The Thing has an extra anus. It's where is his right eye used to be.

and

Galactus is a midget living in Las Vegas.  He looks exactly the same.  He still has the power to consume planets, but instead wears diapers and never leaves the slot machines.

How are these changes?
Prof X was always into the kiddies.. Wolverweenie never had good toe hygene.. Hulk was always a craven... well he was whenever there was a mouse around.. (or was that elephants  Storm.. well I dunno that she was a she-male or not, but she might have been.. and Galactus was actually BASED on a hard-core gambler who lived in Atlantic City and wore diapers.. but he played mostly online during his lunch hour, he could leave the game at any time, he just wore the diapers because he really liked stewing in his own filth!

The one you got right is the Thing having an extra anus for his right eye.. that IS a change from the the comic books where he had an additional 7 anuses, 3 of which looked like cold sores on his mouth when they were closed...

So THAT'S why they called the Thing 'the kissing mutant'!

Yup... and he wasn't made of orange rock either, he just always rolled around in a lot of shake n bake and never bathed much...

I thought those things were bacon bits mixed with diahria from his 7 anuses.

No no, common mistake.. wrong.. but common.

Good thing the Thing has a winning personality or else he'd be very lonely.

Well, it helps that he's hung like Ron Jeromy.. his pen15 actually looks like Ron Jeromy.. only with all the "scabby rocks" not as ugly.

Wow... that almost makes him normal in the marvel universe.