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I am old enough to remember the early 1960s and IIRC the term for Afro-Americans most widely in use then was “negro”, and the race or ethnicity was “negroid”. It was only later in the 1960s with the burgeoning civil rights movement that these terms fell out of favor, replaced by the more acceptable (at the time) “black”. So the specification of “black” for “Father’s Race” would have been uncommon and unusual, to say the least.

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Indeed. And now we have two allegedly genuine official documents with wildly differing data, neither of which corresponds to the current practices of the original issue date.

Apparently we are supposed to doublethink them into being identical.

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I am old enough to remember the early 1960s and IIRC the term for Afro-Americans most widely in use then was “negro”, and the race or ethnicity was “negroid”. It was only later in the 1960s with the burgeoning civil rights movement that these terms fell out of favor, replaced by the more acceptable (at the time) “black”. So the specification of “black” for “Father’s Race” would have been uncommon and unusual, to say the least.

ABSOLUTELY AGREE

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

No authority here, but I could imagine Obama’s mother being trendy enough to say “black” if asked, just to offer the benefit of the doubt. Whether that would have carried any weight, I don’t know.