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To: Eurale
Interesting that the document lists his father’s “race” as “African”. To me, “African” is a nationality just like the terms “American”. “French” or “British.” How was race described in 1961?

Since this is a new print from computer records, someone may have done a global replace changing all references of Negro or Colored or Black to African in the database.

35 posted on 06/12/2008 12:48:35 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (the Clinton dream of being a two impeachment family goes right down the drain. - Letterman)
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To: KarlInOhio
Since this is a new print from computer records, someone may have done a global replace changing all references of Negro or Colored or Black to African in the database.

So that raises the question, what else did they change? For instance, if Baraka legally changed his name to Barack and perhaps dropped the "Muhammed," would they also change that?

We'd have to check, but I think the "race" box would have been filled out as the formerly correct "negro," or the currently correct "black" on the original record. "African-American" was a later term, and "African" means little or nothing. That could include Arabs or Afrikaans or who knows what--anyone born in Africa.

51 posted on 06/12/2008 12:55:53 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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