The Yahoos say it's fake because it doesn't say Negro.

[Capitalocracy]

Facepalm.

By the way, even if the claim is true, that it would say negro in 1961, I imagine it would say negro for a black American, but since his father was from Africa, they put African to differentiate.

[malaise]

1. The reason Afro-Caribbean folks insist on being

called Africans is because white people called us Negroes (descendants of slaves) but we're simply descendants of Africans.

[Art_from_Ark]

2. Hawaii is not like the mainland

Given the Hawaii's ethnic make-up, I would be very surprised if, even in 1961, the state did not use its own terminology to describe the race of children of mixed marriages.

[Capitalocracy]

3. Sounds very possible

These people are grasping at straws

[SoCalDem]

5. and Hawaii (as a state) was VERY new in 1961..

It's possible that the people in charge of things like that used whatever terminology THEY grew up with. "African" was accurate enough for them, especially since he was not a citizen. Had he been a white African, they would have skipped over it and listed caucasian.

[seabeyond]

6. that is what i was thinking. nt

[EstimatedProphet]

4. That's not the N-word they think it should say.

[Capitalocracy]

7. And what do you know, it doesn't say Muslim either

There goes that theory.

[HopeHoops]

8. Shouldn't that be "negroid"?

:shrug: