To: null and void
I am old enough to remember the early 1960s and IIRC the term for Afro-Americans most widely in use then was “negro”, and the race or ethnicity was “negroid”. It was only later in the 1960s with the burgeoning civil rights movement that these terms fell out of favor, replaced by the more acceptable (at the time) “black”. So the specification of “black” for “Father’s Race” would have been uncommon and unusual, to say the least.
66 posted on
06/25/2010 10:48:31 AM PDT by
chimera
To: chimera
Indeed. And now we have two allegedly genuine official documents with wildly differing data, neither of which corresponds to the current practices of the original issue date.
Apparently we are supposed to doublethink them into being identical.
76 posted on
06/25/2010 10:58:25 AM PDT by
null and void
(We are now in day 518 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
To: chimera
I am old enough to remember the early 1960s and IIRC the term for Afro-Americans most widely in use then was negro, and the race or ethnicity was negroid. It was only later in the 1960s with the burgeoning civil rights movement that these terms fell out of favor, replaced by the more acceptable (at the time) black. So the specification of black for Fathers Race would have been uncommon and unusual, to say the least.ABSOLUTELY AGREE
83 posted on
06/25/2010 11:06:26 AM PDT by
1234
("1984")
To: chimera; null and void; Windflier
No authority here, but I could imagine Obama’s mother being trendy enough to say “black” if asked, just to offer the benefit of the doubt. Whether that would have carried any weight, I don’t know.
534 posted on
06/27/2010 11:31:28 AM PDT by
Arthur Wildfire! March
(Dems vetted Alvin Greene as well as they did Obama. "Republican plant" aka "blame Bush")
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