I find it so interesting to have 'met" someone who has had both a similar, yet also different childhood. I too, am lighter than the average biracial kid, hell, I'm lighter than the average white kid.

Everyone always thought I was white too and the looks people gave my father and I...wow.

I hated being mixed race as a kid, I love it now. I think our respective experiences give us a very unique and necessary voice in the current racial/political climate, especially in the US (which sadly, seems to be spilling over into Canada).