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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"I’ve read accounts that Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Harding, Eisenhower and possibly other presidents had black ancestors."

Queen Elizabeth does. Everybody probably does if you could trace your ancestry back far enough.

14 posted on 06/18/2012 5:13:17 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Going into debt is taking the canoe out with the tide and coming back against it.)
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To: Savage Beast
Queen Elizabeth is supposedly a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.

Andrew Jackson's family had recently come to the colonies--it's not likely he had any black ancestors in Scotland or Ireland. There was a rumor about one of Harding's ancestors having black ancestry, but that may have been made up by a neighbor who didn't like the man. Jefferson was born in 1743, just decades after African slaves started to become numerous in Virginia--if any of his grandparents or great-grandparents had been black he probably would have looked like someone of mixed-race ancestry.

Supposedly all modern-day humans are descended from African ancestors (the "out of Africa" theory). Anyway the Garden of Eden was in Africa. I learned that from one of my classmates in high school. The Bible says that Adam named all the animals, so the Garden of Eden had to be in Africa for him to name the lion.

21 posted on 06/18/2012 7:40:13 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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