It is a little funny, though: in 2008 the New York Times didn't know how to pigeon Kagukawa racially:
At Punahou, a preparatory school that had few black students, Keith Kakugawa and Mr. Obama were close friends. They met when Mr. Obama was a freshman and Mr. Kakugawa, who is Japanese-Hawaiian, was a junior. Article
“It is a little funny, though: in 2008 the New York Times didn’t know how to pigeon Kagukawa racially:
They referred to him as Japanese-Hawaiian which would explain his race. He is definitely not black as blacks define it. Asian-Pacific Islander would do it I guess.
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Probably couldn’t find any papers who would report anything he would reveal. Especially if he started trying in 2007.