Which race should I check? (White and Native African)

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@makemesmart

But we have to agree that in America, African Americans/blacks are mainly used for slave descendants. I am having a really hard time to identify Charlize Theron as an African American, so would she, no matter what the census definition says.

It appears unlikely that she qualifies under the US Census definition either.

@dropbox77177

President Obama identified as African American. He had a white mother (I believe of Northern European extraction) and a black Kenyan father. Exactly analogous to OP. I never heard any criticism, except from Al Sharpton early on. Just saying.

He actually did have an ancestor who was a slave: https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/obama-related-to-americas-first-slave/