How do you feel about identity based housing?

I was horrified by Hampshire's "women of color" housing scheme when I was an entering student. I had put down on my housing preferences form that I did NOT want to be in any identity based housing. I did not end up getting a room and was assigned the lounge. Then the night before coming to Hampshire, Linda Mollison put me in the colored hall because my "name sounded ethnic". I was able to get my way out of it, but am still left with the sense that the "women of color" hall is some sort of separate but equal thing. I can understand that some people need the support of other minorities here, but it begins to feel like segregation when such assignments are done against one's will.