# Another Obama Birth Certificate Question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 29, 2011, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-obama-birth-certificate-question/580189 "2011-04-29T18:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-obama-birth-certificate-question/580189/4 "2011-04-29T18:29:21Z")

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Here’s a cite in a previous post of mine:

> [@Obama is a Negro](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-negro/579923/46):
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> The reason that the birth certificate identifies his father as African is not because that was the standard but because that’s what the parents said. From [Factcheck.org](http://www.factcheck.org/2008/08/born-in-the-usa/): “why is Obama’s father’s race listed as “African”? Kurt Tsue at the DOH [Hawaii Department of Health] 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.’”

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