And not one nation called Africa. So, it has to refer to race.
How many white people have you seen being called African-Americans?
I'm not trying to discredit your theory by any means. I'm just saying that it's well worth looking into to be sure that was not the term used back in 1961 in Hawaii.
In the United States they were commonly called "negro". But Hawaii had just become a state before Obama was born and they may have been carrying over old cultural terms.
Your theory may be correct. But it should be confirmed that they were called "black" or something on the documents.
Actually, I have an account at ancestry.com which I have not used in months so when you asked me to find a document I was going to give it a try. Then I got off track and searched Obama: Hawaii. I found lots of stuff.
I never really went to this site looking for anything on Obama knowing that surely many people already have combed through it.
I don't follow your logic. If it was a nation that would be nationality since it's a continent it must logically refer to the continent of origin. How you infer a reference to race is unfathomable. Absurd really with so many races living on the continent of Africa.
In the United States they were commonly called "negro". But Hawaii had just become a state before Obama was born and they may have been carrying over old cultural terms.
What Hawaiian cultural terms would lend themselves to using the word "African" for race? Negro or negroid were common terms the world over for centuries.