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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What would Obama have been? Hawaiian? Black? White? Multiracial?

I'm guessing most of those white spots are athletes or legacies. I know a major metro area white kid who got in (they had a distant hook but probably didn't move the needle). But they are pretty rare.[/quote]

Obama wasn't Hawaiian. he's biracial. or this is how you self-identify, so maybe black. which seems fair. [/quote]

I agree that in his case he would likely identify as multi-racial. But couldn't a 100% white kid from Hawaii claim to be Hawaiian?

Kind of like how a white person who lived most of their life in Africa theoretically is "African-American?" I don't know how precisely they define this but I think they could say that with a straight face.

I hate Trump and I hate how he is dealing with this but I can't wait for the day when all of these boxes go away.[/quote]

no. my husband is from morocco. my kid, while 1/2 "African", is not African American. Likewise, Elon Musk is not "African-American".  Hawaiian is an indigineous ethinicity[/quote]

Are they that specific in defining it when presenting the box? I think you can check the box with a straight face unless they are very specific. On a similar note, what percentage of a certain background do you need to be to qualify? 1/4? 1/8?[/quote]

Nope, that's not what African-American means[/quote]

french Montana is Moroccan and he has the n-pass so your kid does as well...
...which makes him african-american.

They haven't explicitly defined african-american as 'ados' [/quote]

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