[El Gato]

You mean like he had WHITE on his birth certificate?

1961 Hawaii long form certificates, only shows the race(s) of the parents, not the child.

I sure would like to find the BC of someone born in Hawaii, with at least one "negro" parent, to see how that parents race is indicated. By '61 there were blacks in the Navy, the Army, the Marines and the Air Force. Some of them must have married Hawaiian gals and had children with them, race of the mother might be "Japanese", "Chinese", "Hawaiian" or "Heinz 57", but there should have been a fair number of them.

[PhiKapMom]

That would be interesting! There is something on that birth certificate that he doesn’t want anyone to see but then his college records are also sealed.

Running for President should require an open book on records IMHO.

[justiceseeker93]

I'm quite sure that the race of a what would be called a “black” or “African American” parent today would have been called “Negro” on an official document in 1961. “Negro” was the standard term used by news media and respectable public speakers at the time, regardless of race. It didn't begin to change to “black” until the late 1960s or perhaps early 1970s.