<p>Everyone clearly knows that white South Africans were never a disadvantaged minority in the US. By using your dad’s white (probably white Dutch and/or British) heritage that passed through colonial or apartheid South Africa for a generation or two on its way to the US, to claim to be “African American,” you would using sophistry to subvert the system. </p>
<p>If you would feel like an imposter as a member or officer in the Black Student Union or African American Club at the college, then don’t check the box.</p>