just speaking from personal experience now, i think it is really important to understand that simply being black is read by a non-trivial number of people as anti-white extremism

I just did this using the new online system. I took the pic myself in front of a white wall. The first was rejected immediately for a shadow or something, but the second was accepted. It said they'd reach out if there were any issues, but instead it just arrived in the mail less than a week later.

apropos of nothing at all