What race do you think Barack Obama is? White, Black, Mixed Race, or something else?

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143. As a mother of a multi-racial child, I personally don't like lables.

I think that labels is what separates people. However, I do think that we as human beings are programmed to sort and categorize- and being mere human beings we will always sort, categorize and label.

I also feel that we as human beings can recognize that prejudice, bigotry and racism is wrong and that the best we can do is to work towards eliminating our urge to sort and categorize people according to their ethnicity or skin color within ourselves.

It used to bother me that strangers would ask me what my child was. I thought it was a rude question and I'd usually rudely reply that he was a little boy. You see, they weren't quite sure.. they couldn't tell if he was Hispanic, Arab, Indian or African American. He is in fact African American and Caucasian but I am certain that he identifies himself as African American.

He told me about an amusing incidence recently. While working for a nieces boyfriend with a Hispanic crew that didn't speak much English. It seemed to the white couple they were working for noticed that he was an assimilated Hispanic and asked my son to interpret for them. My son only knows a few words of Spanish. It made me think at the time-how great it would if everyone was as unsort-able and un-categorizable as my son.