It gives his father’s race as “African.” That’s a little suspicious, but it was Hawaii and Japanese, Chinese, Filipino, and Portuguese were considered “races” by many Hawaiians, so “African” wouldn’t have been impossible. A white family might have felt better about giving the father’s name as “African,” rather than “Negro.” When statistics were submitted to federal authorities, BHO, Sr. would have been listed as “Negro.”
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Barack Hussein Obama II is the only person on Earth to have a 1961 Hawaiian birth certificate with the father listed as “African”.
If you don’t believe me, find another one and present it. I’ll even accept any BC from 1964 and earlier.
If you don’t believe me, find another one and present it. I’ll even accept any BC from 1964 and earlier.
The only Hawaiian birth certificates I can see are the ones posted online.
Like I said, "African" as a race is suspicious and raises eyebrows, but it's not obvious or undeniable evidence of fraud or forgery.
For all I know, BHO may have been the only child born in Hawaii that year who's father was a Black African.
Who knows what a clerk might have been told or how he or she would have responded when such an unusual event occurred?
I'm not going to vouch for the birth certificate, I'm just saying that "African" was more acceptable to White people than "Negro" was, and Hawaii was looser about race than the mainland was.