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You may be right. What is your source?
1. So one reason I want to see Obama's 1961 long form birth certificate is this: I want to see if Obama's Kenyan father's RACE is listed as "African" as it is listed on the Obama short form birth certificate we sse on the internet.
2. If Obama's Kenyan father's RACE is listed differently on the two birth certificates, then I say that Hawaii officials have a lot of explaining to do.
3. You say that in 1961, Hawaii allowed parents to write whatever RACE category they wanted for themselves?
4. You could be right, but such a practice seems bizarre, for instance, I don't think that a parent from an Asian background could write "Asian" in the RACE category.
5. Also, if a parent was allowed to write in whatever racial category they wanted for himself, I would think that such a practice could lead to chaos in the Hawaii government and United States government statistics departments.
6. Also, it would be most interesting if we find out that Obama's 1961 long form birth certificate is the only one in the history of Hawaii birth certificates where a parent is listed as "African."
I do not know about Hawaii, but in 2003, the hopital where my grandaughter was born, gave her mother a form, and she filled it out-they took her word for it. They had boxes to check and one of those was “other”.