Factcheck.org????? That is where you are quoting from? hahaha
Mr. Kurt Tsue is still an employee of the State of Hawaii so he can be asked directly at any time if he made that statement.
A committee of the House of Representatives could call him to testify under oath at any time or he could be subpoenaed to appear before a Grand Jury investigation.
Tsue may have made that statement and it may indeed be true—today. But not in 1961.
In 1961, there was no such thing as “self-identified” racial classification. When he talks about this issue, he’s talking about today’s process, not the process in 1961.
In 1961, the powers that be decided upon what was going onto the birth record. There was a specific set of racial classifications.
Barack Hussein Obama (senior) would have been classified Negro.
In those days, there wasn’t even a category for “African-American”. Hyphenated Americans didn’t exist. (Not to mention, he wasn’t an “American” of any race. He was a Kenyan.)
Back then, “blacks” were called negroes or coloreds. And that’s a fact, Jack.
It matters not, because he wasn’t racially classified on ANY birth certificate in Hawaii, not contemporaneously. There’s no indication that he was mentioned at all on any original birth certificate, because Tim Adams has said that there is no original birth certificate.
At this point, it’s very possible that there is NOW some sort of document upon which an abstract could be based—such as a late birth certificate given to Obama recently, upon his filing of an affidavit from his now-deceased grandmother and perhaps testimony from interested others. Perhaps on that document, BHO Sr. is named as father and identified by his alleged son or mother-in-law (not by self, since he’s deceased) as “African”.
However, whatever that document that exists NOW may be, it’s not the document from which that alleged scan on FactCheck blog was abstracted, because that scan is based upon nothing. It was produced, all right, by not by Hawaii.