Did it ever occur to you that Gramps loved blacks, hung around with them and wanted his child?
That would be a different discussion than what I have been posting to, it was portrayed as the easiest thing to do, and to prevent shame for the black hooker.
As far as wanting his child, his wife and daughter must have been pretty accepting, and why not just keep it himself and call it a noble adoption by he and his wife?
Why when the black woman was in her third month of pregnancy, go to the bizarre lengths to get his daughter married off to an African to make the scheme more believable when birth came 6 months later?
According to Stanley Ann, her father wanted a son. Madeline knew that also. If Stanley Sr fathered a son with a black woman, I can see Madeline allowing the ruse to fruition using Barack Sr as a scape goat. Stanley Ann’s lack of mothering interest in Barry, and her forcing language classes at five in the morning would fit with a love/hate relationship with her brother. Barry’s first recorded name, on the first actual birth cert would likely have been Barry Dunham under such circumstances. The mother need not have been a prostitute. Madeline may not have wanted to service Stanley Sr and was more than happy to have someone else servicing the slug. Whne a son was produced, Madeline had her leverage for the rest of Stanley Srs life!