“you’re admitting that there was no “specific category” of “African” for anything to be forced into. “
There was the category “other nonwhite”, it is listed in the tape instructions (1961 and 1968) and in the Vital Statistic reprots for 1961 and 1968.
I point out the 1964 “yellow” reference to show that BCs can sometimes have weird or as they politely call them “ill-defined or not clearly identifiable races”. Ill defined entries are more likely the results of the parents self-reporting then the hospital staff screwing up.
Forcing “African” into a specific category means coding it using one of the predefined categories, not changing what the parents wrote down.
Caucasian (@see Nordyke BC as well) instead of white I could understand, but African? At least Caucasian is a race.