I’m pretty sure there is a line missing from that quote. There was also an article about an interview with BaraK as he was leaving Hawaii and there was no mention in the article of him or his mother. It was in the paper on June 22, 1962, the day he left. That’s what he is referring too not the birth certificate.
You are correct, thank you.
From “Dreams...” — page 26, last paragraph:
“I discovered this article, folded away among my birth certificate and old vaccination forms, when I was in high school. It’s a short piece, with a photograph of him. No mention is made of my mother or me, and I’m left to wonder whether the omission was intentional on my father’s part, in anticipation of his long departure. Perhaps the reporter failed to ask personal questions, intimidated by my father’s imperious manner; or perhaps it was an editorial decision, not part of the simple story that they were looking for. I wonder, too, whether the omission caused a fight between my parents.”