—So it would not be surprising that a guy from Kenya would list his race as “African”.—
Okay. But why would someone filling out a birth cert in Hawaii use that term. I don’t think they would. It would have been like putting down “Virginian” in the race data on my cert., instead of Caucasian.
“But why would someone filling out a birth cert in Hawaii use that term.”
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I believe that was explained more than once up above.
The form would have been filled out using whatever term the child’s father used to describe his own race, and it would have been natural in 1961 for a Kenyan to denote his race as “African.”