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.
I’ve tended to stay away from the purely birth certificate related threads, because I believe the Constitutional question of eligibility has already been answered, by Obama’s own admissions upon information and belief, and the circumstance of his birth to an alien father.
But, that “African” on the computer generated, database driven document from Hawaii, does jump out. There are standards for terminology, varying by jurisdiction certainly, but such a thing is not thrown about willy-nilly. So, there’s meaning to be gleaned from this oddity, imho.
To me, the meaning very well could be that there is a source document that the database has drawn upon, that contains the term. And, the term plausibly points to a British colonial origin. Immediate assumption would be Kenya, but that may not be correct, as there are other, former British colonies, in Obama’s past.