Who are we? Who am I?

This is not really what some would call breaking news.
To me it's a great topic to talk about .
NYT: Who are we? New dialogue on mixed race
Many of mixed parentage feel Obama's path similar to theirs
Peter DaSilva for The New York Times

Shafia Zaloom and her husband, Brian Neece. They named their son Kyle to honor Neece’s Irish roots and named their daughter Mei Lan for Ms. Zaloom’s Chinese heritage.
Jenifer Bratter once wore a T-shirt in college that read “100 percent black woman.” Her African-American
friends would not have it.
“I remember getting a lot of flak because of the fact I wasn’t 100 percent black,” said Ms. Bratter, 34, recalling her years at Penn State.
“I was very hurt by that,” said Ms. Bratter, whose mother is black and whose father is white. “I remember feeling like, Isn’t this what everybody expects me to think?”
WWW.msnbc.msn.com
Before anyone go on to thinking this topic is about being black.... no, it's about the whole race thing.
What color are you? Do it really matters this time and age/why should it matters now.
I have to say at of all my years of living, I'm nearing the are of fifty fast in a few more years..
I have never been treated with racial remarks or been treated different because of my color.
Yep I'm a black female or should I say a mutt, my blood lines runs of many types.
Hopi Indian, German and black American. so am I black enough, red enough or white enough to be accepted by some?
Let's talk about color,and why do some hate and some don't.