That would really screw up their redistributionist dreams.
Just like this movie:
Soul Man (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091991/
“To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. “
On all applications and questionnaires - ESPECIALLY government forms, I always check “Native American”. I’ve only been asked about it once to which I replied that I was born in California.
That is what I told all of my nieces and nephews. I told them when they interviewed to tell them that they only “passed” as white in the 1930’s but they know that they were just light skinned.
While looking up my father’s geneology, I discovered one of his grandmother’s was listed on the 1900 census as “Colored”.
In checking through here parents’ backgrounds, I found that her father immigrated from Switzerland along with four of his brothers, and her beautiful blond, green-eyed mother’s background wasn’t mentioned. Oddly, my great-grandmother was never listed on any of the pre-1900 census’ as being one of their children. No one in the family ever spoke of her backgound except to say she was Italian-Swiss.
My great-grandfather, her husband, told my grandfather that they were part Indian, from a tribe in New England.
I have started putting multi-racial on such listings.
I always identify myself as black, Native American and Pacific Islander although I am very fair and not particularly exotic looking. When I moved and was signing up for a new library card several years ago, the clerk told me, “You’re the first Pacific Islander we’ve ever had!” She was excited, like we had both won a prize. Why the library needed to know my ethnicity I can’t begin to guess.