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The boy is NOT black. He is Caucasoid, no matter what his “skin tone” (which is also not black) indicates. His father, black as he was, was a Kenyan, and they are classed as Caucasoid. Daddy was 1/8 Negroid, enough in the USofA to be legally called “black” — but Barry Zero is only 1/16 Negroid ancestry.

The central problem for your hypothesis is that nowhere in the United States medical or legal system is there a means by which one is classified as this or that race (with the exception of so-called "native American" because of their usually dual citizenship status and now by them as a means of keeping others out of the portion of the, at least formerly, lucrative gaming industry open to "native" Americans; and there you actually have to demonstrate it). No one going into a hospital to give birth anywhere in this country, even 50 years ago, is questioned as to the relative percentages of racial mixture of one's parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents for the purpose of determining whether one is this or that race.

The central problem for your hypothesis is that nowhere in the United States medical or legal system is there a means by which one is classified as this or that race . . .

Yes there IS . . . and it's on my blog somewhere and I don't have time to find it. There is a % rule for people who wish to classify themselves by race. A person must have a great-grandparent who is a full-blood of that race/ethnicity to claim to be that race/ethnic group.

Barack SENIOR had a great-grandparent who was Negroid making him 1/8 Negroid. He only passed 1/16 of that to his son. Technically, legally, Barry Dunham is not "black" by the percentage of Negoid blood. He is Caucasoid.

http://racialreality.110mb.com/subraces.html
East African: In the deserts and highlands of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Somalilands is found a concentration of several related Mediterranean types, mixed in varying degrees with negroes. To the west these partial whites border on Sudanese negroes; to the southwest the partially Hamitic tribes of Kenya and Uganda form art extension of the peripheral Mediterranean racial area. To the north, the Beja-Bisharin group of Hamitic-speaking nomads connect the East African Hamitic-speaking peoples with their wholly white Egyptian and Berber relatives of North Africa.

This is Barry Dunham Obama Zero's race.

http://racialreality.110mb.com/skincolor.html
Pigmentation is the most readily visible signifier of race, and as such it's often used by laymen to detect bi-racial ancestry. Yet it's also the least reliable from this standpoint, as it changes in response to climatic and environmental conditions, both seasonal and long-term, and can vary greatly within genetically differentiated populations (i.e. races).

The central problem for your hypothesis is that nowhere in the United States medical or legal system is there a means by which one is classified as this or that race (with the exception of so-called "native American" because of their usually dual citizenship status and now by them as a means of keeping others out of the portion of the, at least formerly, lucrative gaming industry open to "native" Americans; and there you actually have to demonstrate it). No one going into a hospital to give birth anywhere in this country, even 50 years ago, is questioned as to the relative percentages of racial mixture of one's parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents for the purpose of determining whether one is this or that race.

Somewhere on my weblog or perhaps at http://www.theobamafile.com there is a reference to percentages a person has to be to be legally called a black. I think it was used by blacks to "pass" for white if they were less than 1/8 black.

You're right about the Native Americans.

But what do we do with THIS information?
East African: In the deserts and highlands of Ethiopia, Eritrea, and the Somalilands is found a concentration of several related Mediterranean types, mixed in varying degrees with negroes. To the west these partial whites border on Sudanese negroes; to the southwest the partially Hamitic tribes of Kenya and Uganda form art extension of the peripheral Mediterranean racial area. To the north, the Beja-Bisharin group of Hamitic-speaking nomads connect the East African Hamitic-speaking peoples with their wholly white Egyptian and Berber relatives of North Africa.

At birth, before his 'color' came in, Ann Dunham could have listed him as Caucasian rather than Negro(id) or any other term used in 1961. Bi-racial? Multi-racial? Those words weren't in mainstream vocabulary in 1961.