[philman_36]

So what do the detractors mean when they say the father could ‘self report’ their race when filling out a birth registration for their child back in 1961?
Well you're going to have to track down one of these "detractors" and ask them. I can't answer a question for someone else so I have no idea why you're asking me to do so.

It has code 3 by fathers race, code 3 by ‘Kind of Business or Industry and Code 3 by mothers race.
Okay, noted. So what's your point?

[Herbster]

There doesn’t seem to be a place for race of child coding like Dr. Conflation suggests.

On another subject it seems the coding number (6) in front of place of birth (line 6a from BC) and line from the BC ‘6e’ that says Kapiolani-Hospital number (5) ?

from the scrib document in this thread the best I can figure is:

Birth in Hospital would be (2)
Birth attended by physician (4)
Birth attended by midwife (5)
Other = (6) like Barky’s says.

But I really don’t know what these feilds mean or how to read them. I’ll take Zullo’s source as the authority since she would know, she coded the documents. Has there been a settled agreement on these other codings? Sorry for the oversized picture.

[Fred Garvin-MP]

I guess my point is this. Is it possible that Barack Obama Sr (or even Ann, grandma, grandpa) could have asked the clerk (nurse,etc) in the Hospital or one of the regional offices to put African by fathers race on the birth registration and they did?