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The “moderate” contrabirther freepers assure us a racially “sympathetic” clerk could easily have put “African”.

FAIL & Barbara Streisand!

“African” is not a race anymore than “North American” is. My own dentist was born and raised in South Africa and he’s as white as snow.

Please don't continue to spread this disinformation. Here are the known facts.

Rumor: Obama Senior's race would be listed as "Negro" in 1961 not "African."
Truth: The Hawaii Department of Health accepts the race as specified by the parent(s).

"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.' We consider it reasonable to believe that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as 'African'." ~FactCheck.org: The truth about Obama's BirthCertificate

The instructions for the 1962 Kenyan census instructed Kenyans to identify themselves as: "Write European, Arab, Somali, or African, etc. Asians must write Indian or Pakistan.”

Instructions for 1962 Population Census of Kenya

A Certificate of Live Birth issued in 1973 and certifying a 1907 birth lists the father's race as "American" and the mother's as "Hawaiian." (American is not a race, as you know.)

Yes, Keala Harriet Hardesty is a real person and these are her real parents. You can look it up for free at ancestry.com.