First, let’s answer the question would Obama Sr. put down the word “African”.
From the 1962 Kenya census instructions,
“Column 5. Race – Write European, Arab, Somalia or African, etc. Asians must write Indian or Pakistan.
http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/IPUMSI/CensusForms/Africa/ke1962ef_kenya_enumeration_forms.en.pdf
“Might that be because his race was simply NOT STATED?”
That’s hard to answer as the instructions say this - “(7) If the racial entry for either parent is not clearly identifiable as one of the races in the code scheme, consult the supervisor.”
So what would the supervisor decide?
Since the parents race code is used to determine the child’s race code, maybe we can glean something from the instructions for determining the child’s race.
“5) If the racial entry for one parent is omitted or unknown, code race of child as the race of the other parent.”
“6) If the racial entry for both parents is omitted or unknown, code 1 (white).”
Does that mean that if the race of father was left blank, they wouldn’t code it at all?
If the father is shown as number 9, OTHER NON WHITE and the mother is CAUCASIAN, I have no idea what the supervisor might instruct. Our interest as for as I can see, isn’t how the offspring was classified, our interest is purely to try to make sense of the AFRICAN on the supposed birth certificate, even though it is a forgery...
Assuming he was the father of a child born in Hawaii in 1961, what maybe should appear on that document is AFRICAN-LUO.
As the result of which he still would have ended up with the dreaded NEGRO classification.
Isn’t this discussion centred around the idea that the birth was somehow fraudulently reported by the Dunhams, heaven knows how long after the event?
In fact, that the word AFRICAN was used is more of an indication that it was the Kenyan HIMSELF who refused to use the term NEGRO.
No anti-colonial as he was, would allow that designation to be applied to themselves. It’s a term that connotes SLAVERY. He wasn’t an african-american negro.
HE WAS AN AFRICAN.
THIS is what the term NEGRO meant to the coloured people according to your very own martyred civil-rights advocate icon, the man whom Jaramogi Oginga Odinga visited in Atlanta in 1960, about whom a song was written...the very same who is the father of the recent Prime Minister of Kenya, the same who is seen in the image below with a famous man in the USSR whom you might remember...historical events don't happen in isolation:
If anyone still believes the kenyan student would have willingly described himself as NEGRO - considering the politics and events of the period, they have a very narrow POV.