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Wonderful question.
Since we are all in agreeance that race is a social construction even if one chooses to opt out of their current skin tone, the "race" attached to that person may not change.
However, I'll say no. Simply because I love everything about me. There is so much history attached to my complexion, people died for me to have a at least comparable life to those who's tone was lighter than mine. It would be disrespectful in my opinion to change something that shaped who you are. Your experiences are shaped by your complexion, that's the honest to goodness truth.
My friend and I actually had a similar conversation once, she's Euro American as a point of reference. We came to the conclusion that no race actually has an all good life. True, there are advantages to being Euro American in this country, but there are disadvantages as well. Whether or not one chooses to acknowledge that fact is up to them, but no one has it better or worse.
The entire idea of wanting to be someone else is the assumption that this other person has it better than you. But with every positive comes a negative, otherwise there would be no positive.
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