When their daughter first selected that ethnic identifier on a school form, the teachers told her “no, you are not.” Daughter resisted and was sent to Vice Principal’s office where she refused his direction. . .parents called and they set the school straight, there were born and raised in South Africa, they were now American citizens and therefore, were now African-Americans.
They won that battle.
Yep, and I’m native American.
Science says we all came from Africa, so we should all identify that way, right? That should throw them for a loop. LOL
A friend of ours immigrated from South Africa here as a teen. He signed up for an African-American contest of some sort in high school and competed, arguing that having been born on the African continent, he was more African than many kids there.
I worked for a guy who would get all kinds of state and VC funding, grants, etc because he applied as a minority (African American) business owner. Whiter than white Jewish fellow, born and raised in South Africa.