When you get the interview and they say you aren’t black, tell them you were born in Kenya and as such fit the African American designation.
Sit back and watch HR’s heads explode.
__________
Gosh, no one has ever thought of that before. You are a genius.
HR recruiter for a couple of years, and that is exactly the kind of stuff we laugh at. Yours would be the shortest interview ever. And because you would have knowingly falsified your app, you would have zero recourse. But you would be unknowingly the brunt of jokes for years to come. Quite a legacy.
Look at a job application sometime. It does not ask where you were born, African American is a racial category, one of 6 or 7 found on applications for organizations that must report stats out to the fed.
Probably the reason why on my job apps I put decline to identify. Which of course would be another reason for HR to laugh saying “yeah, just another qualified white guy who can benefit our company we are going to discriminate against. Nyuk nyuk nyuk.”
If that is the case, say what you mean and quit piddling on the language.
It is that sort of zipperheaded, weasel-worded, mealy mouthed nonsense which is enough to get some people to tell a HR person "No thanks, I don't want to work here."