Technically, President Obama would be able to qualify for this. Ironically, he's a descendant of American slavery on his mother's side lol.
One of his mother's ancestors was a Black man named John Punch who was enslaved in Virginia in the 17th century. John Punch's descendants obviously married and procreated with White people and thus.............you know what happened lol.
Obama would qualify but his own mother would not? That seems, idk... kinda silly doesn't it? From a racial ancestry perspective the only difference between the two is that Obama has an African (non-ADOS!) father and his mother does not. This is quite literally the opposite outcome of what the program is designed to do. Dunham quite literally has more ADOS ancestry than her son does and by the logic this program is premised on she should be more deserving of benefits than him.
This seems like a perverse case of technocratic meddling and a disturbing neoliberal means-testing mindset. Who cares if some of the advantage meant for ADOS is accrued by non-ADOS people (who also face some forms of discrimination based on their appearance)? Particularly if it leads to hair-splitting and potential deprivation in cases like the one you are highlighting. If you believe the premise that you can accurately categorize someone's race at all, you should just give benefits to anybody with any form of African ancestry. Seems not too different from imposing stringent limits on who gets welfare or unemployment - liberals shouldn't believe this!
