Parents’ race self-reported in Hawaii:
We received responses to some of our questions from the Hawaii Department of Health. They couldn’t tell us anything about their security paper, but they did answer another frequently-raised question: why is Obama’s father’s race listed as “African”? Kurt Tsue at the DOH told us that father’s race and mother’s race are supplied by the parents, and that “we accept what the parents self identify themselves to be.” We consider it reasonable to believe that Barack Obama, Sr., would have thought of and reported himself as “African.”
A Hawaiian Certificate of Live Birth, issued in 1973 and certifying a 1907 birth record, exhibits nationality as race:
Father’s Race: American
Mother’s Race: Hawaiian
Here a 1977 Certification of Live Birth again shows nationality as race:
Mother’s Race: Japanese
Father’s Race: Japanese
How Kenyans reported their race in their own country in the 1960s:
Race.- Write European, Arab, Somali, or African, etc. Asians must write Indian or Pakistan.
Instructions for the 1962 Population Census of Kenya
Filed under: False!
