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?
Is it "possible"? Sure, anything is "possible".
The better question is..."Is it "likely"?" Not likely, IMO.
“Update, August 26: We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn’t tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama’s father’s race listed as “African”? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that “we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.””
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/born-in-the-usa/
This Hawaiian BC lists Hawaiian/Chinese/Korean/English/German/Portuguese as the race of the mother.
http://www.wnd.com/2011/04/292053/
The assumption that the coder would have put down ‘Negro” is pure speculation as it is that they would have put down “Other Nonwhite”. Cases can be made for both arguments. And depending on when the codes were added to the BC, there is no way to know if the coder even saw Obama Sr.