<p>To dapotatoman:
Yeah of course South African white or Black are African, but in my opinion if you have to ask yourself whether you “count” as African-American…your best bet is to not mark the box at all. Honesty is always the best policy and if you are African-American you will know it. The person who started this thread made the right choice and I respect his morals.</p>
<p>Also where did you get that statistic that he is more “African” than 80% of African-Americans at Harvard and in which dictionary did it say that you must be disadvantaged to mark the box as African-American? I’d like the link for your source, because by shooting out blank statistics…you just sound ignorant. </p>
<p>Just pointing that out, but really if you have a source please pm it to me.</p>