For the first time in 27 years, the US Census Bureau announced it would make a major change to the "race" and "ethnicity" questions in its upcoming 2030 survey. But for all the heavy lifting it does, the term Latino has its limits. And for many years, I hid myself beneath a veil of general "Latinidad" while struggling to embrace the truth of my African ancestry. The one-drop rule meant that a person with one relation of African ancestry (one drop of Black blood) could be legally considered Black. Yet, in the US census, there is no single African ethnicity box (only MENA and Black or African American).