It's known today as Mombasa.
If you'd read this thread in its entirity you would have understood that at the time Obama was born it was a British Protectorate and not part of Kenya ~ although it served as the capital for Kenya simultaneously.
So, what race are the people from "so and so East African British Protectorate"?
You don't know. You're a clerk in a hospital. So, you write down "Africa" ~ and there you have it.
I know a Japanese-American who applied for a marriage license in Suffolk Virginia. The black clerk (a first for that area) was new and inexperienced. When it came to the part where you put in "race" he wrote in "Japanese".
She looked at her list and informed him "They ain't no Japanese race".
After some more discussion she finally decided "Korean" was OK, so he became "Korean" there having been only "black", "white" and "Korean" among the choices in Suffolk Virginia.
And you tell me hillbilly backcountry type folks who turn into clerks in Pineapple country (aka Hawaii) back in 1960 are slicker than their counterparts in Suffolk VA in the early 1980s?
You need to travel more.
“You need to travel more.
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Er, that is ALL I have done for the last 12 years.
I have not even been home in the states since 2004.
Again. Race and nationality are separate issues, regardless of what some dumb clerk thinks.