“Hilarious. Not just poetry. Maybe some of you would like to try your hand at this.”
I tried this on a job resume. I got the interview and when the black, female HR manager came into the office and saw me, the look on her face was precious. For the entire interview, she kept looking at me like she smelled crap. Knowing she cannot openly ask my race, she finally said it. “On your resume it says you are African American, however you do not fit the characteristics of an African American.” When I told her I was born in South Africa so that makes me an African American, she was angry and told me the interview was over.
Legally, I had the company by the short hairs but all I did was quote MLK on color of skin and content of character.
I have a friend whose parents are about 1/4 black, from South Africa. They look like light skinned blacks.
His siblings mainly look like light skinned blacks.
One looks African black with blue eyes
He has tannish skin but blue eyes and board straight light brown hair.
He always stuggled checking the box.
Didn’t particularly matter, as he is a good engineer and we barely make eye contact with people. But it frequently came up.