I’ve been under the impression that at least one former African colony of the United Kingdom and Colonies (UKC), Rhodesia, was in the habit of categorizing race by continent. That impression came from seeing yet another birth document online (possibly suspicious, I realize), that categorized a child born of two US citizens in Rhodesia as “European,” rather than white or caucasian, as we would expect in this country.
So, it’s reasonable to wonder, if the unusual “African” on the controversial “short form” shown widely on various websites could have an ultimately British colonial origin, in the various source documents driving the database that creates this form in Hawaii. There are at least two former British colonial holdings in Obama’s past, Kenya and Hawaii. I suppose British Columbia and even Canada could be thrown in as well.
Words have specific meaning and significance in legal documents, that’s one lesson we should all come away with, from all this, whether it’s the Constitution itself, statutory law, statements of state or federal government representatives, or birth documentation. Words not said or written have no meaning, and words said or written have very carefully constructed meaning.
Words have specific meaning and significance in legal documents!
Rhodesia, once the Breadbasket of Africa, the jewel of Africa. Now the population starves to death under ‘native rule’ and they have single handedly brought the country to its knees, back to the stone age. Let’s compare white-controlled Rhodesia to black Marxist-controlled Zimbabwe....
They were once self-sufficient and one of the largest exporters of corn, cotton, beef, tobacco, roses, and sugarcane. Now it sits as a COMMUNIST place in HELL. Fellow FReepers, elections have consequences!
Read this articlle, “How to Kill a country” on how Mugabe in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) has decimated a once striving and flourishing economy.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200312/power
“How could the breadbasket of Africa have deteriorated so quickly into the continent’s basket case? The answer is Robert Mugabe, now seventy-nine, who by his actions has compiled something of a “how-to” manual for national destruction. Although many of his methods have been applied elsewhere, taken as a whole his ten-step approach is more radical and more comprehensive than that of other despots. The Zimbabwe case offers some important insights. It illustrates the prime importance of accountability as an antidote to idiocy and excess. It highlights the lasting effects of decolonization—limited Western influence on the continent and a reluctance by African leaders to criticize their own. And it offers a warning about how much damage one man can do, very quickly””
http://www.globalpolitician.com/25161-rhodesia-zimbabwe
Elections have consequences, lets try and apply damage control.
I have been thinking along similar lines, asking myself why would the word AFRICAN appear as RACE on the ‘certification of live birth’ - wondering if the answer to that may supply a clue to the origin of the document itself.
I recollect reading recently, of Marcus Garvey, and his ‘back to africa’ movement. I was surprised to find that along with MalcolmX, Marcus Garvey is ‘one of the saints’ of Jeremiah Wright’s ‘church’.
Apparently, ‘African’ is meant to mean negro.
“...The Negroes (Africans) who were sold in the West Indies remained as slaves for two hundred and thirty years...”
Garvey, by naming negroes AFRICANS would automatically classify whites as EUROPEANS.