Whoever said that? The assumption was that the clerk wrote it because it was what he or she was told. The presumed father didn't have to be there for the clerk to be told that. Indeed, the explanation works better if he wasn't there. If he was, perhaps the clerk would have written "Negro" or "Colored" rather than "African".
I find it odd that so many columns and rows are out of alignment on this document, yet not so on the birth certificates of others that were supposedly filled out on the exact same day and in the exact same hospital.
Look at the top line of Gretchen Nordyke's birth certificate. "Gretchen" is a little lower than "Carter Nordyke." Was that a fake, too? Maybe her real first name was different.
I really don't care what you might "think" is more likely. What I do know is that the document is a fraud.
I asked about what you think. But apparently you don't "think" -- you "know". You're probably half-right.
Have you grown up yet?
Grown-ups don't think that sort of response is an argument or a witty or wise rejoinder.
At 65, this grown-up finds your duplicity curiously juvenile given the quoted little jibe you offered to which the response was made regarding growing up.