When Im at a game, I don't think about race more than whether a person is a human, gaven, elf, or dwarf. Yet, more than one person asked that when I make a elf character is it automatically a dark elf, because Im black. My answer, no. In my mind, a dark elf has onyx to black / purplish mix of skin and white to silver mix of hair. I have none of those.
My thoughts on calling a black person colored. First of all, everyone is colored; otherwise you are translucent. So that makes saying it somewhat ridiculous. I also thought that calling a black person colored kinda went out with the 70s. So, for me to hear that someone had said, "Do you know who the new dark....elf..... er., colored elf...is?" seemed somewhat interestingly funny to me. With that, every other elf in the game would be a white elf and called as such.
So yeah; my new character is an elf. Just an elf. You can call him that, or by his name.
) loves to talk to people and twist conversations. Like most of my family he is fairly quick witted, and enjoys twisting peoples word to watch them squirm. Never maliciously, but just enough to make people think. Hes very subtle about that. When my kids were little they were confused about the whole black/white thing (As we are neither) and I used the following explanation.
