I think race 'awareness' adds to the richness of the fabric of this world, right along with the various strengths of multiple cultures. I didn't always feel that way- it's certainly not the way I was reared to be- but like McGrath implied above, eventually you become aware that shoe size is just as significant in defining virtue or the lack of it as the color of one's skin.

There are two black men in my family- one is blue-black, from West Africa and the other is the normal run-of-the-mill American black kid. I hope that eventually we'll get more color into our family. The 'white' person's skin, if you judge by mine, is nothing to drool over.