Kathy was clearly old enough to do the math. She just never really thought about how young her mother was, until as an adult, she came face to face with her own birth certificate, and read between the lines. The ink on the page told the story of how Kathy Barnette was conceived. The now-Republican congressional hopeful was just 18 or 19 years old at the time, getting ready to join the Army Reserves, and she needed the birth certificate to sign up. That was the first time she really began pondering her origins. “And the first thing I noticed is that they identify my mother is ‘Negro girl,’” Kathy told The Epoch Times of her birth certificate. “I scanned over it, I saw that she was 12, and it began to dawn on me for the first time that I can remember. I just really started processing how young my …