Given the number of Black babies born in Hawaii (based on the CDC’s figures), there would have been a Black baby in the nursery on any given day.
However, there should have been somewhere between 30-50 white babies in the Honolulu nurseries (of which Kapiolani is by far the largest) on any given day. Monika said Stig was the only one there.
So either Waidelich’s memories are a bit confused, she’s making it up out of whole cloth, or those 4-7 days surrounding the birth of her son were extremely anomalous.
I wonder when and how Stig “lost” his long-form.
What she actually said was: “I have no absolute proof of course, but I saw Obama and I have always thought it was Obama,” she told Expressen.
It’s just her belief. But she did give birth at Kapi’olani on August 5, 1961 so there is a possibility.
However, there should have been somewhere between 30-50 white babies in the Honolulu nurseries (of which Kapiolani is by far the largest) on any given day. Monika said Stig was the only one there.
No, she didn’t. She said there was one black baby in the nursery and that the black baby was in the bassinet next to her son. She made no comment about the number of non-black babies in the nursery.