If Negro was a choice, that would be stupid since it was asking for race and NOT nationality.
2. Find a Hawaiian long form BC from the early 60's. See if there is a multiple choice for race or just a blank spot to be filled in.
YOU find a blank form from back then. YOU made the claim. The burden of proof is on YOU.
Putting "African" on a form would NOT tell someone what your race is as there are WHITE Africans.
If Negro was a choice, that would be stupid since it was asking for race and NOT nationality.
What if Obama Sr. had been from India and was racially Indian, but that wasn't one of the choices? Either he would be forced into a choice that didn't exactly describe him, or he would be allowed to describe his own race.
Of course these are all plausibility arguments, since all that really counts is whether in this one instance someone was allowed to refer to themselves as "African" on their kid's Hawaiian BC. Since the Hawaiian DOH authorities have not squawked about the "African", I am assuming that Obama's long form BC contains the same term. But to be really certain we will have to see the original form. If it says "African" then this whole discussion will be moot.
YOU find a blank form from back then. YOU made the claim. The burden of proof is on YOU.
Actually you made the claim that "Forms are multiple-choice". I think you will find that this one is not.
Putting "African" on a form would NOT tell someone what your race is as there are WHITE Africans.
We already went over this. There are white Africans but no one refers to the race of these people as African, as I have already showed.