Well, whoever did do that COLB was an idiot. African is not a race! It is a place. During the 60’s they would have put Negro as the race, not African. Not all Africans are black.
That is absoulutely right. In the early 1960’s and prior, Negro was the term used. The word African is proof enough that this has been recently drafted.
Too bad the first African-American president is someone like him, when our nation has a wealth of honest and patriotic citizens of African heritage who would and could be a president of integrity that we would be proud of.
Did quite a bit of research on the African terminology when this first came out. Let’s see how much I recall.
In the original Dutch colonies the term Afrikan was used to designate those that were from original tribes , and another term used for those of mixed heritage. Another term was used for the white.
SInce Kenya was originally a dutch colony, it is possible that on the tansfer of information (possibly cable) from Kenya to HI, they used the term African to designate the race.
That is one explanation of why it was used.