The only difference I can see would be that Barry’s supposed dad REALLY was African. So comparing any other black baby born in Hawaii in 1961 with Barry would be like comparing apples to fruit cocktail. Now if you can find another AFRICAN who’s certificate says NEGRO...
Africans are of many races, Negro, Pigmy, Caucasians of various varieties.
See:
The Races of Humanity, by Richard McCulloch
http://www.racialcompact.com/racesofhumanity.html
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA GROUP
I. Capoid or Khoisanid Subspecies of southern Africa
A. Khoid (Hottentot) race
B. Sanid (Bushmen) race
II. Congoid Subspecies of sub-Saharan Africa
A. Central Congoid race (Geographic center and origin in the Congo river basin)
1. Palaecongoid subrace (the Congo river basin: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Angola)
2. Sudanid subrace (western Africa: Niger, Mali, Senegal, Guinea)
3. Nilotid subrace (southern Sudan; the ancient Nubians were of this subrace)
4. Kafrid or Bantid subrace (east and south Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Natal)
B. Bambutid race (African Pygmies)
C. Aethiopid race (Ethiopia, Somalia; hybridized with Caucasoids)
III. Caucasoid or Europid Subspecies
F. Mediterranid racial group
1. Orientalid or Arabid subrace (predominant in Arabia, major element from Egypt to Syria, primary in northern Sudan, important in Iraq, predominant element among the Oriental Jews)
2. South Mediterranean or Saharid subrace (predominant in Algeria and Libya, important in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, primary element among the Sephardic Jews, common element [circa 20-25%] in Spain, Sicily and southern Italy, minor element [circa 5%] in Greece)
Not all Africans are “negro” as the term was used to indicate race in that time period. A 1971 era college course used a textbook on “Black African History” for “Black American Studies” which described the history of the Continent. It noted how North Africa and East Africa were principally populated by racial and ethnic groups which were not “negroid” in race or culture. Instead, they tended to be so-called Caucasian groups: Italic, Norman, Arabic, Semitic, and so forth. This textbook described the expansion of the Ibo tribes from the area of the Congo in Central Africa about 500-600 years ago when the development of genetic sickle cell anemia among the Ibo favored survival and rapid population expansion out of Central Africa and into the areas of East Africa and South Africa.
Africa is and always has been the home of a diverse range of so-called races. Descibing Obama as African in race is even less accurate than describing him as modern North American in race. The U.S. Census provides a typical example of how the terminology for race was in use in 1950 and 1960:
The 1950 census was the first to use the term “race” as the sole descriptor. “Race” appeared in the census for the first time in 1900 as part of the category “color or race”—terminology that continued through 1940. The 1950 census specified seven races: White, Negro, American Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Other race (spell out).
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In 1960 the term “race” disappeared from the census and was replaced by “Is this person - White, Negro, American Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Part Hawaiian, Aleut, Eskimo, (etc.)?”
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Looking in the Cultural Mirror: How understanding race and culture helps us answer the question: “Who am I?” by Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. The Census and Race—Part IV— Civil Rights and the Cold War (1950-1980)What is special about the census categories White, Japanese, and Chinese? Published on July 27, 2010 .
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/looking-in-the-cultural-mirror/201007/the-census-and-race-part-iv-civil-rights-and-the-cold-war
This is a good point which I had not thought of.