Joe Wicked,
I know what you mean. I grew up in a two room apartment above a bar at 9th and Prospect (your wife will know where that is). I have 3/4 Cherokee cousins, half Chicano nieces and nephews, and 1/2 African American gt nephews. If we constantly referred to ourselves by our ethnicity then we might just forget that we're family.
Buzz,
Malachi and Jaden aren't my "black nephews", just like Obama isn't my "black president". He's my President, although I sometimes slip "village idiot" in front of President.
