“Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn’t tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama’s father’s race listed as “African”? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that “we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.””
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/born-in-the-usa/
This Hawaiian BC lists Hawaiian/Chinese/Korean/English/German/Portuguese as the race of the mother.
http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/292053/
The assumption that the coder would have put down ‘Negro” is pure speculation as it is that they would have put down “Other Nonwhite”. Cases can be made for both arguments. And depending on when the codes were added to the BC, there is no way to know if the coder even saw Obama Sr.
This Hawaiian BC lists Hawaiian/Chinese/Korean/English/German/Portuguese as the race of the mother.
http://wtpotus.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/miki-booths-long-form-bc-from-hawaii.jpg
What is that code there? Is that a "5" or a "6"?
What matters is what the code designates.
And I still don't see "African" listed, even as late as 1995.
When did "African" come into use?
Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that “we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.””
Yes, they accept it NOW. He was speaking to the procedure they use in the 21st century. Circa 1961, there was no such thing as “self identified” race.
Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that “we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.””
Yes, they accept it NOW. He was speaking to the procedure they use in the 21st century. Circa 1961, there was no such thing as “self identified” race.
