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That was a lovely narrative. Thank you for sharing it. Although my own mixed race ancestors were gens du couleur libre, I certainly can appreciate your personal history. However, I do take exception to the idea that "Brown is the new Black." I believe, in all honesty, none of us are served until "Humanity is the new Brown, White, Asian, Hispanic and Black." (Homosexuality is not a race, otherwise I would include it also.) It should never have mattered that you are biracial or that my many of my ancestors were Creoles of African descent. While I hope that Obama's election will foster a greater mutual understanding between the races, I hardly see any reason for anyone to assume that racism and the problems it engenders have vanished simply because we have elected a biracial individual as President. If articles like Ms. Kaplan's are any indication, the racial dialogue is going to get quite interesting before we've achieved true racial color-blindness.
