Shameeka and Wallace looked proudly at their newborn quadroon. Each was hoping someday the bloodlines would continue to be watered down and they would be proud grandparents of a octacoon.
"All the way up until 1986, my barracoon played home to a coffle of twelve: 3 quadroons, 3 octoroons, 2 pickanninies, 2 Mexicans, a mulatto, a chink, and a roan-colored Albanian hobo named Noodles. And I'll be goddammned if those weren't the best days of my life."