You said: “Arabs rejected being classified as Arabs, which is why I still think Obama Sr. may have considered himself white despite the skin color. Arabs used White.”
The material you cite is of fairly recent vintage, i.e., past decade. In 1961, “Arab” wasn’t really on the radar screen at Census or Centers for Disease Control.
You can see a copy of the standard birth certificate form recommended by CDC for use in 1961 here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsus/vsus_1961_1.pdf on pdf page 228.
• Item 8. requests “Color or Race” of Father.
• Item 10. requests Birthplace (State or foreign country) of Father
• Item 13 requests “Color or Race” of Mother
• Item 15 requests Birthplace (State or foreign country) of Mother
This report also notes that “Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese,Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian (combined), and “other nonwhite.” See pdf page 231 at same cdc.gov URL. You can be sure that there were detailed instructions/guidance to this effect for whomever was responsible for filling out the birth certificate form. Thus, whoever was coding Obama’s birth should have been following this classification scheme.
As many have noted, “African” is not a race. While there certainly are many Blacks in Africa, there also are Afrikaners who are white, in addition to Arabs, Indians and others who certainly would not designate themselves as Black. So putting “African” in the race field would not have made sense. Moreover, if someone accidently did this in field 8, they would likely quickly recognize their mistake when they got to field 10 and had to fill in the father’s birthplace.
I believe it has been established that Barack, Sr. was not present at the birth, so he could not have been the one insisting on “African” as the appropriate response. One would hope that Obama’s mother would have known enough about Sr’s heritage to realize that “African” would NOT have been a moniker that would please Sr. since many if not most Americans might well misinterpret this to mean Negro/Black, which apparently is the last thing Sr. would have wanted for his son.
In Obama’s account, his mother apparently was infatuated by Blacks, as evidenced by her reaction to Black Orpheus. And she certainly seemed relatively uninhibited about going against the grain. But if in Sr.’s absence, she wished to “make a statement” by listing the father as African, she presumably could have and would have selected Negro. Conversely, if she had been concerned about protecting her parents’ reputation from the “shame” of birthing a bi-racial baby (and there’s nothing I’ve seen that would indicate she thought this way at all), she would have been motivated to report “Arab” rather than African.
Thus, there are many reasons to view African with suspicion. OTOH, if the BC is entirely fabricated, who would be motivated to substitute this term for Black, White or Other Nonwhite? It’s hard to believe anyone would think it worth the legal risks involved in forging a document to change “Arab-African” to “African.” Thus, if the BC is fabricated, one would think that much more might be at stake. Covering up a birth in an unwed mother’s home in Vancouver would make a lot more sense than covering up a birth in an unwed mother’s home in Seattle, since in the latter case, he would still be a natural born citizen.
Just clarifying, the second cite I have was from 1997 where revisions to the classifications were suggesting adding Arab for it’s own classification standard and that was rejected. All the reviewing I’ve done has shown that Arabs used White.
This is just general though. Just to take under advisement in the Obama ponders.
Someone standing for election as an African- American?
The date on the reverse of the document was June -6 2007. Might that period of time be relevant to his campaign?
Let's take the obama CoLB at face value. It's a FILED copy with or without a seal and certification signature.
We see it on his website fighthesmears - born in Oahu, time, date, mother/father name.
If the certificate number had not been blocked out, would anyone have questioned it?
Why was it necessary to block out the certificate number?
Because the certificate had been tampered with.
Removing the number invalidates the CoLB.
Without the number, it can not be alleged a fraud has been committed.
The only suspicious piece of information on that at-face-value document would be the 'race' of obama snr.
If obama snr, in his pride of arab heritage, in 1961, insisted on being classified as arab or arab-african, that alone would be sufficient reason - for a candidate for President of the United States of America! to both drop the ARAB and black out the certificate number.
(IMHO, of course.)