People would look at me and say both your parent's are white (Irish and Irish) but I feel quite comfortable checking the Hispanic and African American boxes and here's why.
I'm claiming I am Black Irish, which (from Wikipedia) mentions Spanish descendancy in three prominent places:
1. ",,, researchers believe that most of the genetic ancestry was established by ancient migrations to the British Isles after the Ice Ages, which had depopulated the islands. The prehistoric people came from the Iberian peninsula and genetic links have been demonstrated with Basque ancestors..."
2. "..The physical traits of the Black Irish are sometimes thought to have been the result of an Iberian admixture originating with survivors of the Spanish Armada.." but it goes on to say that there may not have been enough survivors of the wreck to have influence. I'd like to think, however, that my great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother nursed a survivor back to health and married him. In fact, I'm sure that happened.
3. "..The Spanish Armada myth is thought to have been a corruption of a story based on the Milesians, the purported descendants of Míl Espáine (Latin Miles Hispaniae, "Soldier of Hispania", later pseudo-Latinised as "Milesius"), speculated to represent Celtic-speaking peoples from the western Iberian peninsula who began to migrate to Ireland and Britain in the fifth century B.C.[5] Genetic research shows a strong similarity between the Y chromosome haplotypes of males from northwestern Spain and northern Portugal and Irish men with Gaelic surnames.[6] There is a significant difference between peoples of the west and the east of Ireland, in that much of those from the west owe less of their DNA to Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian populations. Genetic marker R1b reaches frequencies as high as 98% in northwestern Ireland and 95% in southwestern Ireland,[7] but drops to 73% in northeastern Ireland and 85% in southeastern Ireland. Additionally, R1b averages between 90% and 95% in Y chromosomes of the Basques of northern Spain (and southwestern France), considerably greater than levels of the same haplogroup found amongst the remaining Spanish genepool, where it varies from region to region in a range from 42% to 75%, but mostly with percentages in the 50s and 60s..". That's good enough for me to declare myself Hispanic. Hoo Raa!!!.
And lastly, didn't all our ancestors emigrate from Africa... I'm waiting for a liberal to disprove evolution. Until then, I'm checking African American so I can get my "fair share" back of what I'm overpaying.
Chief,
Let us know how that works out as both my wife and I have Irish in our lines.
:-))