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LOL, Missy, boy is my face red. I realized that I answered your question assuming you were caucasian -- I hope I didn't sound as foolish as I feel -- me, a white chick, explaining slavery -- jeeze!
Anyway, I'm cracking up about the state of Texas deciding to list a baby's race based on the race of the father despite the fact that the child might look nothing like that race.
My daughter was born in India and is the color of chocolate -- certainly as dark as many AA people. We have a bit of trouble filling out forms. Technically she's caucasian if you are considering the three big racial categories (Caucasianoid, Mongoloid and Negroid), but she's not "white." These days racial categories have been merged into ethnic categories but South Asian isn't usually listed and just simply putting Asian seems misleading since people assume that means from countries like China or Korea.
I have gotten to the point where I think that racial categories are really silly and if you want to describe people you should describe them as individuals.
When we filled out the paperwork to finalize our adoption the form asked for our ethnicity -- I got irritated since on my mother's side all my greatgrandparents were born in the US and said "American." I mean how far back was I supposed to go?
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