The 1/16 Choktaw blood in me thinks that this is ludicrous.
I am 1/16 Mohawk, not enough to qualify for tribal membership. Besides, I am much more Polish/Lithuanian.
One sixteenth mix in of Lenape and Cherokee here agrees with you. No sooner did the law become truly blind to race but the Left wrote extreme racism back into it. As if when oppression of one sort ends a new one must begin to restore “justice”. And what’s infuriating is that both ends of this obsession over race were and are Democratic Party constructs.
Untold millions of Southerners would DNA test 1/64th or greater heritage of the Five Civilized Tribes.