A white man whose results from a DNA test showed that he is 4 per cent African is fighting to be legally recognized as black.

Not only does Ralph Taylor believe that he should be legally Black based on his sense of identity, he also thinks that his Washington state business, Orion Insurance, should get all the benefits of being registered as a minority-owned entity.

And Taylor doesn't stop there. He told HuffPost that he believes affirmative action, a set of laws that support minority groups that have been historically discriminated against, shouldn't be focused on race and instead should take a look at socioeconomics because, in his words, we are all multiracial.

He even says he 'feels sorry' for Rachel Dolezal, the race faker and former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader who was discovered to actually be white in 2015.

But let's start from the beginning. This all started with a conversation at a Seattle bar where Taylor overheard a man talking about how easy it was to submit an application to certify his business as a Minority Business Enterprise (MBE), according to the HuffPost.

In 2014, the state of Washington awarded him an MBE certificate.

Ralph Taylor (pictured), of Washington state, whose results from a DNA test showed that he is 4% African is fighting to be legally recognized as black

Not only does Taylor (left) believe that he should be legally Black based on his sense of identity, he also thinks that his Washington state business, Orion Insurance, should get all the benefits of being registered as a minority-owned entity

However, when Taylor applied for a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise certificate, he was denied and the Office of Minority and Women’s Business Enterprises (OMWBE) said the application was rejected because he didn't meet their criteria of belonging to a minority group.

From there, Taylor sued the OMWBE, and has now made it his mission to expose the flaws of affirmative action programs.

Taylor's argument is as follows: he's a member of the NAACP, subscribes to Ebony Magazine and has a great interest in black and social causes; therefore, he should be able to identify as legally Black.

Actually, none of the above makes you Black.

But that doesn't matter, because in 2017 Taylor updated his birth certificate to a multiracial status of being 'Black, Native American and Caucasian', according to the HuffPost.

Not to mention he also marks himself down as being Hispanic.

Taylor's argument is as follows: he's a member of the NAACP, subscribes to Ebony Magazine and has a great interest in black and social causes; therefore, he should be able to identify as legally Black. Taylor also claims that he's trying to expose the flaws in affirmative action

However, critics don't believe he's actually trying to expose flaws in a political system. HuffPost Black Voices Editor Taryn Finley (pictured) said: 'Being able to tip-toe back and forth across a line between now I’m Black, now I’m white, now I’m multiracial, that’s not identity'

He also shared his view on racism and how society has identified former president Barack Obama (pictured in 2016) as black. 'If you rely on the group to tell you who you are, then that's sad,' he said

'I cross them all. Hispanic is to embrace the Hispanic culture. They're self-identifying statements,' Taylor told the news site.

Since sharing his story, Taylor said he has received death threats, but in order to prove naysayers wrong, he has taken a lie-detector test.

'It was never about the money,' he says, claiming that he hasn’t benefited financially from his MBE status.

Next, Taylor talked about Rachel Dolezal, who was exposed as a white woman pretending to live life like a Black woman by her own parents in 2015.

Taylor told HuffPost that he 'wished he could have told her [Dolezal] that all she had to do was identify'.

He also shared his view on racism and how society has identified former president Barack Obama as black.

'If you rely on the group to tell you who you are, then that's sad,' he told HuffPost.

Critics believe that Taylor is 'playing a game' and not actually trying to expose flaws in a political system.

Writer and HuffPost Black Voices Editor Taryn Finley said: 'Being able to tip-toe back and forth across a line between now I’m Black, now I’m white, now I’m multiracial, that’s not identity. You’re playing a game.

'It’s a very nefarious way of using your privilege, and I don’t think that you’re genuinely trying to expose a flaw in the system,' she added.

Finley also took a DNA test that showed that she is 10 per cent European.

However, she said: 'I’m a Black woman. My lived experience as a Black woman cannot be passed [as white].'

In December 2018, 9th Circuit judges unanimously ruled against Taylor, and in favor of the OMWBE.

Taylor says he even 'feels sorry' for Rachel Dolezal (pictured in 2017), the race faker and former National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leader who was discovered to actually be white in 2015

The court argued that OMWBE 'did not act in an arbitrary and capricious manner when it determined it had a "well founded reason" to question Taylor’s membership claims'.

But Taylor isn't throwing in the towel. He told the HuffPost that he is willing to live out of his car if it means seeing his lawsuit through to the end.

However, the US Supreme Court declined to hear his case over the summer, and he has run out of appeals to the 9th Circuit.

Taylor also said he will be reapplying to the OMWBE this year and has already emailed the director about resubmitting his application.

According to the news site, Taylor stated in the email that he will be sending them an amended birth certificate and asks: 'Should I have the certificate amended to state that I am black without any other ethnicity?'

He added in the email that he can 'also have the certificate amended to state female if that will help', a statement that Taylor says points to the flaws of the affirmative action system.

'The system the way it is now needs to break,' he says.