I’m just saying that “African” was more acceptable to White people than “Negro” was...
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No, it wasn’t. 1961. Negro was the correct term. Still is for languages influenced by Latin.
You seem stuck in the post-1970s concepts of political correctness with your statement.
Until I am shown otherwise, the 2007 BC is a fake pounded out by a 20-to-30-something who didn’t know the proper nomenclature. The only “otherwise” is another pre-1964 Hawaiian birth certificate with “African” as a racial designation on it.
"Negro" was certainly preferred over some other racial epithets in 1961, but if you were a White parent in 1960 whose daughter had married a very dark-skinned man from another continent, you might want to avoid using that word to describe your grandchild and go with "African" instead. It would be easier on the child to have an "exotic" background than to be just another American Negro.
The only “otherwise” is another pre-1964 Hawaiian birth certificate with “African” as a racial designation on it.
As I said, I certainly can't get one of those. In any case, the set of children born in Hawaii who had an African parent from Africa was probably very, very small, so the number of birth certificates you would find (if you could find any birth certificates of that era at all) would also be very, very small.