How much should race figure into a person's character or identity?

It's hard to talk about race because people can't really agree on what race is. Historically, race meant black or white but things aren't black or white anymore. In all honesty, they never were but they were referred to as such and there you go.Whether we like it or not, we all walk around with labels. For some of us, it's the color brown which envelopes our bodies, for others it's our gender and for yet others it's merely the aura of our spiritual character. Whatever the case, people are going to react to your label far far before they get a chance to know who you really are and what you are about. If people want to reject their label, the only thing to stop them from doing it is the society they happen to be housed in. If they want to make their label the only thing that defines them well that's pretty lame. In my opinion, it would be ideal to have a comfortable relationship with your race, ethnic group or whatever label you have sticking to you.