The Race For 2024

[bilby]

Kind of like how they say you may be an American if you are born in the states but just being born there doesn’t make you a *real* American.

Indeed, a "real" American apparently has ancestry in America for at least a century, but under no circumstances in excess of six centuries, nor in Africa more recently than the last Ice Age, though with an exemption for ancestors who were in South Africa during Apartheid and whose ancestors were English or Dutch.

Or something.

It seems to be unnecessarily complicated.

 

[Politesse]

Kind of like how they say you may be an American if you are born in the states but just being born there doesn’t make you a *real* American.

Indeed, a "real" American apparently has ancestry in America for at least a century, but under no circumstances in excess of six centuries, nor in Africa more recently than the last Ice Age, though with an exemption for ancestors who were in South Africa during Apartheid and whose ancestors were English or Dutch.

Or something.

It seems to be unnecessarily complicated.

It's not complicated, people just get offended when you point out the obvious about what the real criterion is that they're talking around. (Hint: it starts with W---- and ends with an HOA that bans Kwanzaa decorations.)