Read up on the state of racial relations in America in the following three links; you will be surprised at the sordid state of multiracial America after half a century of civil rights campaign:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24765917
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/us/29portland.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/27/MNK610P4C8.DTL