It was not Orly that did the research. It was a couple of PIs
(1961) Race and color
Births in the United States in 1961 are classified for
vital statistics into white, Negro, American Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Aleut, Eskimo, Hawaiian and Part-Hawaiian
(combined), and “other nonwhite.”
The category “white” includes, in addition to persons
reported as “white,” those reported as Mexican or Puerto
Rican. With one exception, a reported mixture of Negro with
any other race is included in the Negro group; other mixed
parentage is classified according to the race of the nonwhite parent and mixtures of nonwhite races to the race of the father. The exception refers to a mixture of Hawaiian and any other race, which is classified as Part-Hawaiian.
In most tables a less detailed classification of “white” and
“nonwhite” is used.
Now we know the govt is a stickler for codes so that big brother can keep track of all our statistics. Well, according the the US CDC website there have been son=me revisions as of late to the types of codes for ‘race’ on vital records certs.
Prior to 2009, the latest revision to the actual long form took place in 2004. In 1961, a black person was listed as either ‘black’ or ‘negro’. In 2004, the one showing on the CDC site shows he could have been listed as either ‘black’ or ‘African American’ as ethnicity then came into play. Now in 2009(revised 1/2009), thanks to O’bambi’s HHS secretary, they have added a whole host of listings for those of the black race and amazingly one can now be listed as just ‘African’ as is shown on O’bambi’s COLB. Too bad it’s just 48 years too late.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vital_certificate_revisions.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/RaceCodeList.pdf
Hawaiian section on law (as stated in the video) pertaining to birth certs issued only on statement of a relative:
US vital statistic birth records for 1961 in Hawaii (By place Of residence. Data refer only to births occurring within the United States. Based on a 50-percent sample. “Metropolitan counties” include all counties that are standard metropolitan statistical areas (metropolitan State economic areas for New England). “Nonmetropolitan counties” include all other counties):
(NON-White)Hawaiian births by totals based on 50% of the complete totals submitted by Hawaii DOH in 1961:
12,198 non-white births
those attended in a hospital by physician: 12,110
those attd out of a hospital by phys/midwife: 50
That leaves us with 38 birth certs, of the 50% totals of used in the report, that were issued without “attending” information which means they were issued by the word or statement of a relative as per the US guidelines, midwives were listed as ‘attending” on the cert applications & their signature was required.
http://www.nber.org/vital-statistics/historical/nat61_1.CV.pdf
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