[edge919]

Here’s a copy of a Hawaiian COLB where the mother’s race is listed as “Hawaiian Caucasian” and the father’s race is “Filipino Spanish.”

Yaw ... and these would represent mixtures of races, as in each parent was of a mixed race. Barack Sr. was not. According to the Natality Reports of the time, vital records used the same classifications as the Census, which refers to "foreign-born negroes" ... Even on his visa applications, Barack Sr. never referred to himself as African for his race.

[Nero Germanicus]

The point is that as the Hawaii Department of Health spokesman said, Hawaii allows racial identification to be self-selected and does not require a person to choose only certain pre-selected terms.
Is “Filipino” a race? How about “Spanish?”
On the 2010 US Census form, a person could write in any racial designator they wanted: http://www.census.gov/schools/pdf/2010form_info.pdf
See question 9 and the blank space to write in “some other race.”