The point is that as the Hawaii Department of Health spokesman said, Hawaii allows racial identification to be self-selected and does not require a person to choose only certain pre-selected terms.
Is “Filipino” a race? How about “Spanish?”
On the 2010 US Census form, a person could write in any racial designator they wanted: http://www.census.gov/schools/pdf/2010form_info.pdf
See question 9 and the blank space to write in “some other race.”
2010?? Are you arguing somebody filled out Obama’s alleged certificate in 2010?? And you’re dodging a huge problem with your theory. Barack Sr. didn’t self-identify as African for his racial classification. We have other documents that show this. The only reason to change from what he was using on those documents would be if someone gave him advice, and that advice would have been to identify as negro, not as African.