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To: DJ MacWoW
1. Sometimes one of the choices is "Other. Fill in the blank".

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.

964 posted on 09/12/2009 2:19:33 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: wideminded
And you've been shown that African was not a valid choice, nor would it have been possible to put it there, and yet you keep merrily plugging away.

Listen Obamabot, there's a place for you, just go there.
Then you can regale all those who believe that Obama is the messiah about how the FReepers were mean to you.

970 posted on 09/12/2009 2:26:27 PM PDT by Darksheare (Tar is cheap, and feathers are plentiful.)
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To: wideminded
What if Obama Sr. had been from India and was racially Indian, but that wasn't one of the choices?

"Negro" was a choice and you are grasping at straws.

Actually you made the claim that "Forms are multiple-choice". I think you will find that this one is not.

Forms that require a race list multiple choices. Negro has always been one of them. African has never been listed as a race.

There are white Africans but no one refers to the race of these people as African, as I have already showed.

No. You didn't. Arnold Vosloo says he is an African.

981 posted on 09/12/2009 2:56:21 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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