[Poincare]

Good catch- you are absolutely right. The form asks for ‘Race’ and ‘African’ is neither a race nor a nationality. Obama’s daddy is from the Continent of Africa, but the country of Kenya. It just gets crazier and crazier.

Luo tribesmen generally give their race as "Arab" and deny they are Negro. How would the evidence that Obama's father was listed on Jr.'s birth certificate as "Arab" affect the electoral race? Would a close-up high def look at "AFRICAN" on the COLB show evidence of alteration from "ARAB"?

[teacherbarbie]

We now know a woman can just give information about the father on the birth certificate, and who knows what language they used in Hawaii for black in 1961.

[Fred Nerks]

Luo tribesmen generally give their race as "Arab" and deny they are Negro. How would the evidence that Obama's father was listed on Jr.'s birth certificate as "Arab" affect the electoral race? Would a close-up high def look at "AFRICAN" on the COLB show evidence of alteration from "ARAB"?

I've been saying that for months! The Omani arabs have a very long history of slavery and oppression of the indigenous peoples of East Africa that goes back centuries. Arabs take their ethnicity from the paternal line, the maternal, the Luo, doesn't count as far as they are concerned.

Whenever I mention this, it's pointed out to me that arabs are NOT BLACK! (And Barack Obama Snr was obviously a Luo because of his colour.)

OMANI ARAB

With so much riding on obama's identification of himself as AFRICAN-AMERCAN his father's RACE as ARAB-AFRICAN would be a very real problem, wouldn't it? Enough to hide a birth certificate...and enough to present a fictionial 'autobiography'

I am very interested in what examples you may have of Luo tribesmen generally giving their race as arab.