Is he black?

Is it OK to be a mutt? While we all have our own views and our own way of thinking, we do share one thing, we all have very different backgrounds. As Marie Arana says, we are all put into subgroups by our skin tone. While we may have a lighter skin tone and be Samoan, we will always be "white" to a new person. While it may be hard to say all of our genetics, we are still that. President Elect Barrack Obama is black, but he is also white, so why is the white part always left out? While he does have a darker skin tone, he was raised with a white mother and a white grandmother, he only knew his father for a month before he left. I believe that our nation's vocabulary has to be updated and it has to be updated now.
While we continue to call people black and put them into those categories, we are leaving out so much. We are leaving out their background. While Barrack Obama being elected the next president of the united states is a major feat, we have to acknowledge that he is a biracial man. We have to see that people are more than what they appear. Arana told a story about a German woman who had a darker skin tone, how people would never think that she was German because of her skin tone. Is it racism or is just the way our brain works?
I agree with Arana's idea about the fact that our language has to develop, because we as people have developed. We have become better, tolerant people and though we are not perfect, we are still improving. We have to show that we are moving just as the times are. As people in this world, we are becoming more and more diverse, there are differnent combinations of just about everything, and just calling them mutts, is not ok. They have to be acknowledged as bicultural people, because we all are.
This world is just moving foward, just as our language should be. We need to be moving foward. This nation has so many diverse people, and we see them as having only the culture that their skin tone represents. Maybe we should all just look at each other with different colors for every culture that we are. Our language should be moving foward fast, because we are.