Horrible. What difference does it make? I can’t imagine asking that question. I’ve had black friends, but never discussed their blackness, let alone what percentage it might be. I was glad to have a friend. It’s a crazy situation to be asked this repeatedly throughout your life, and I almost can’t believe these stories are true. But of course I know they are. I suppose in retrospect the answer should be, “Well, I’ve always been 100 percent beautiful on the inside. Though I feel about 99 percent after you asked that ugly question.”