[quote=arraya]Yes, I really did just bust out a Yoda quote to show how ridiculous they are.
A: I think McCain is a slightly bigger nightmere than Obama
B: The question I posed is valid.
C: I did not say it was fake. I stated the use of “African” to describe a black person was not commonly used if at all in 1961, therefore it is suspect.
Any google search on the political correctness movement can cite this. It’s well documented.
So again how was my question ridiculous? In what way?
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So? Assuming that the hospital has upgraded their records to computer storage, it’s very likely they standardized the entries at the same time they did this. Nobody as far as I know is claiming that this is an ORIGINAL birth certificate from the 60’s, it’s a certified copy from hospital records (in fact, the copy I’ve seen on the web clearly isn’t, since it is clearly computer printed as opposed to hand-typed.)
It’s very likely that what happened is that the hospital when placing those records into the computer simply standardized on the currently PC choices, rather than have older records use different terminology for race.
I find this a more likely ad-hoc explanation than the alternative which implies a pretty massive conspiracy that has held up to decades of public service.
