[Ladysforest]

There has been no proof that a person was allowed to “self-identify” to a non-existent code.
Those codes are the ones a parent could “self-select” from, but these were the official ones required to be used. If there was not a perfect fit, they had to choose the one closest. As in “other non-white”.
In that day and time those were the codes. Fact.
In all of the extensive research that I, and many others have done into just this one topic, we have never found anything that suggested a person could create their own race code.
Not even in Hawaii.

[jamese777]

There has been no proof that a person was allowed to “self-identify” to a non-existent code.
Those codes are the ones a parent could “self-select” from, but these were the official ones required to be used. If there was not a perfect fit, they had to choose the one closest. As in “other non-white”.
In that day and time those were the codes. Fact.
In all of the extensive research that I, and many others have done into just this one topic, we have never found anything that suggested a person could create their own race code.
Not even in Hawaii.

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Mr. Kurt Tsue of the Hawaii Department of Health is alive and well and would be available to testify under oath in a court or congressional proceeding.
You can reach him yourself for elaboration of his statement to the media about the use of parents’ race self-identification at: Kurt Tsue. Phone: (808) 586-4402. Fax: (808) 586-4417. Email: kurt.tsue@doh.hawaii.gov

It should be easy enough to verify or invalidate whether there are other examples of non-standard racial designations being used on 1961 Hawaii birth records.

[Triple]

Has anyone found another COLB from Hawaii in 1961 that listed race as African?

Has any 49 year old Hawiian of African ancestry come forward with a COLB? (So we can see the race listed.)

Does anyone have the ‘COLB rules’ for race in place in Hawaii in 1961?

TIA