[discomatic]

A doctor told me that what he may be hiding is his legal race. Apparently at the time of his birth, a child of mixed race was designated to be the race of the mother, which would list him as white.

[DrC]

“A doctor told me that what he may be hiding is his legal race.”

That’s worth $1-2 million? Wow! He’s already owned up to his mulatto status, not to mention many unflattering details about his father. He had no control over how his mother listed him and today clearly self-identifies as Black. A case could be made, I suppose, that he feared that he’d lose some of the 92% Black vote he got had he let this news out before the election. But once it was over, what harm would there have been in coming clean? This doesn’t seem like a likely explanation.

[MilspecRob]

A doctor told me that what he may be hiding is his legal race. Apparently at the time of his birth, a child of mixed race was designated to be the race of the mother, which would list him as white.

Show me a Birth Certificate that lists the race of the child.

[El Gato]

A doctor told me that what he may be hiding is his legal race. Apparently at the time of his birth, a child of mixed race was designated to be the race of the mother, which would list him as white.

The doctor is wrong. Or you are planting some disinformatizia. There is no field for "race" on the 1961 Hawaiian Birth Certificate. The Nordyke twins were born just hours after Obama allegedly was, and in the same hospital he alledgedly was, maybe (CoLB doesn't show the hospital name, but the long form does. This is the long form BC of one of them.

Now that's a little hard to read, but here is one from 1963, with the same format and fields, but with the certification information cropped off.

The Nordyke certificate copy was obtained in may of '66, when in preparation for starting kindergarten in the fall of that year. BHO's mother or grandmother would have needed to provide one then as well, since he went to the same school they did. Funny though, his records from that school are "missing".

There is also something "funny" about the sequence number on BHO's COLB (which would be the number on his original BC as well) It's 3 numbers *higher* than the younger of the Nordyke twins, (the older on's BC is shown) yet he was ostensibly born the day before, about 19 hours before in fact). Making that even more unlikely, his certificate was filed Aug 8, '61, while theirs were not filed until August 11th. His should have a considerably lower number, not a slighter higher one.

[butterdezillion]

According to the CDC’s Vital Statistics Report for 1961 they classify a child with any Negro blood as “non-white”.

[wideminded]

A doctor told me that what he may be hiding is his legal race. Apparently at the time of his birth, a child of mixed race was designated to be the race of the mother, which would list him as white.

Doesn't make sense because the race of the child was not one of the fields on a 1961 Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth.

[zeebee]

Even if his race was listed as white, I don’t think anyone would care.