When the 2000 Census first allowed for people to check multiple boxes to describe their race, it signaled an era of increasing recognition of multiracial identities in our country. Now, we are living in the age of Barack Obama, our nation's first black president who just happens to have a white mother from Kansas, and in U.S. cities such as Seattle, Sacramento and San Antonio, one in six babies is born multiracial, according to the Seattle-based Mavin Foundation, which since 1998 has educated the public on our nation's durable multiracial identity. ...