Hot on the heels of the essays Lauren and I published Friday about our unique black experiences, today The New York Times runs "Who Are We? New Dialogue on Mixed Race". The article's interview subjects had several interesting, heartrending stories of their own:

Jenifer Bratter once wore a T-shirt in college that read “100 percent black woman.” Her African-American friends would not have it.

“I remember getting a lot of flak because of the fact I wasn’t 100 percent black,” said Ms. Bratter, 34, recalling her years at Penn State.

“I was very hurt by that,” said Ms. Bratter, whose mother is black and whose father is white.

Regardless of the fact that some people's attitudes remain stagnant, statistics show that many Americans continue to pursue interracial relationships. In 2000, the first year the Census allowed respondents to identify themselves as two or more races, six percent of the country's marriages were interracial and three percent of the population considered themselves mixed.

Good news, but it will be even better news when the United States is equalized enough to remove entirely from the Census the question of ethnicity. As James McBride, the biracial author of The Color of Water, notes, "When you’re mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is."

ABC News' John Quinones and his crack team of liars is back to make New Yorkers look calloused and cowardly, and to extrapolate some great truths about human instinct (but mostly just to make New Yorkers look like pussies).

For a special called What Would You Do? airing tonight on ABC, Quinones hired actors to portray public incidents of domestic violence. He then filmed the reactions of people who came across the scenes. The veteran newsman has done this a few times in the past, each time feigning shock when women by themselves walk right by raging men who are clearly unafraid of hurting women. But on tonight's episode, Quinones "[kicked] it up yet another notch" and made the fighting couples interracial. In one case, a white man berates a black woman, in another, a black man kicks his white girlfriend.

Watch above for specifics about what happened, but here's the gist: "As it turned out, race may have been a factor in terms of who intervened, and with which couple. Over two days of shooting, we noticed that women seemed less inclined to intervene when the abusive boyfriend was African-American and the victim white." Why? "African-Americans are stereotypically more aggressive than Caucasians … They [passersby] may have been more hesitant for that reason."

• Rumor has it Eddie Murphy and Tracey Edmonds are getting married in Tahiti today. One thing's for sure, whenever they do tie the knot, Angel Iris Murphy Brown will not be in attendance. [SR]

• Black coaches are still getting a raw deal in college football. [SN]

• Oh, please, please, Issues4Life Foundation! Please help African American teens have more babies. It's just what the community needs! [CCD]

• Interracial couples, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, does not want you. [BET]

• A genetic mutation that increases the odds of breast cancer in some Jewish women has been found in Hispanics and Blacks, as well. [CT]