# Obama is a Negro **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 27, 2011, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-negro/579923 "2011-04-27T18:05:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 46
**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 28, 2011, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-negro/579923/46 "2011-04-28T00:24:57Z")
> [@Frank](#): > > It does make sense. But that may have been a standard entry for blacks in Hawaii at that time. Perhaps one of our ~50-year-old SDMB members from the mainland who happen to be differently ethnicitalized from us can enlighten us as to what’s on their original birth certificate. 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.’” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-is-a-negro/579923)._