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There are some officials in Hawaii who say the description “African” is never usable on their state forms when the race of a person is involved.
That’s the report today from conveners of the Birther Summit, who are on the islands now to publicize their offer of $10,000 for “the actual edition of the Honolulu Advertiser or the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that reported Obama’s Aug. 4, 1961, birth.”
The issue is that the “Certificate of Live Birth” and the earlier “Certification of Live Birth” that the state purportedly issued for Barack Obama both say his father’s race was “African.”
The report was posted on the blog of Charles Kerchner, a retired military commander who took his own legal challenge to Obama’s presidential eligibility to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The report was submitted by Dean Haskins, executive director of the Birther Summit.
“We went into the [Kapiolani Medical Center] records office, and Miki [Booth] asked to file a form to get her son’s birth records. While she was filling out the form, I happened to overhear a woman who was sitting at a desk say something about the ‘race’ field on a birth certificate she was preparing. I asked her if this was the office that responsible for filling out the birth certificate information for babies born there, and she said that it was,” he reported.
“Because she had just asked something about the ‘race’ field on the birth certificate she was working on, I asked, ‘Back in 1961, would anyone have ever entered ‘African’ as the race of a parent?’ She said, ‘No, back then they probably would have listed a black person’s race as ‘negro.” I asked, ‘So, the word ‘African’ wouldn’t have been used, because that is a nationality and not a race, right?’ And she responded, ‘Right. Nowadays we can use ‘African American’ though.’ To which I added, ‘But, the word ‘African’ by itself has never been used as an entry for race?’ And she simply said, ‘No. Never.'”
The image that was released by Obama as his Hawaiian birth certificate:
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The team from the summit, which is scheduled for March 28, traveled to Hawaii to publicize their offer for $10,000 to someone who can produce an original newspaper carrying the birth announcement for Obama.
They also are speaking with key individuals to help gather support for California attorney Orly Taitz, who is hoping for a court hearing on her demand for access to Obama’s original birth documentation in the state archives.
The organization explains, “In November 2008, our country elected as its president, a man who not only had no verifiable qualifications for the job, but was also constitutionally ineligible to hold it. The only proof he offered the public was an image that was thoroughly debunked as a computer-generated abstract that was not what it was purported to be.
“In the time since that election, a groundswell of Americans asked for nothing more than an independent investigation into a document that nobody had any empirical evidence even existed, and were stonewalled at each step.”
The statement continued, “On April 27, 2011, Barack Obama released to the nation yet another computer-manipulated image that he proclaimed was the document that, previously, the American people were told could not be obtained, while he also directed a veritable fortune to be spent to keep from revealing it. Once again, forensic document experts weighed in on the authenticity of that image, and handily dismissed it as a forgery as well. The release of that image also produced another valid question. If that were the ‘real’ birth certificate, why would he have fought so expensively to obfuscate it, since there was little additional information included on it that the first image lacked.”
The organization explains the maneuvers all have been intended to prevent the constitutional issue of Obama’s ineligibility from becoming a focal point.
The Birth Summit members also have created a $15,000 challenge to Colin Powell, Bill O’Reilly, George Stephanopoulos, Anderson Cooper or Chris Matthews.
The first person to whom the challenge was issued was Powell. Haskins wrote:
“We would like to sit down with you and present evidence proving that what Barack Obama used to ‘blow away Donald Trump and all the birthers’ was not actually a valid birth certificate, but a forgery,” the letter explains. “We would also like to present evidence to you of other dubious information Obama has used to misrepresent himself and his eligibility to hold the office of president, including his use of a Social Security number that appears to have never been assigned to him, and a forged Selective Service registration form.”
Haskins said that if Powell chose to meet, he wouldn’t have to prepare a speech, because his “experts will do most of the talking.”
“We will, however, ask only one thing of you: after our evidence is presented, you will either affirm that the evidence we present is sufficient for Congress to launch an immediate, non-partisan investigation into this matter (to include independent testimony and discovery), or you will refute our evidence. It must be understood that refutation of our evidence must be done with evidence, and cannot be anecdotal or rhetorical in nature,” Haskins wrote.
“Because we value your past and present service to our country, and because we still believe that duty, honor, and country still matter, we affirm that you should be well compensated for your time, and are prepared to offer to you, or to Wings of Hope (or any other charity you may specify), a check in the amount of $15,000. Because of the gravity of this issue, we think that $5,000 per hour for little more than listening to the truth should be fair compensation for your time,” he continued.
Haskins said the challenge is at 15000dollarchallenge.com.
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