[SunkenCiv]

WTF? The site is one amazing collection of balderdash, but "Harding was black" is about as credible as "Lincoln was gay", or for that matter "Clinton was the first black president". ;')

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[SunkenCiv]

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[backhoe]

Thanks for posting this- it's been a long while since I've seen so much Lunacy concentrated in one article.

[Ghengis]

The rumor of Warren G. Harding having some African blood has been floating around Ohio for as long as I remember. I had a 3rd Grade teacher mention this in a casual conversation.

[bilhosty]

Actually there is good reason to believe Harding had black lineage. I read the book "Florence Harding:The first lady The jazz age and the death of America's most scandalous President" written by Carl Anthony a very good book.

Apparently he was considered to have black ancestry by many of the people in his town. Even his own step father (hiding his own Jewish forebears) would have nothing to do with him because he considered him black, even campaigning against him in elections because of that reason. The author did however, try to get to the bottom of his ancestry but found it all very nebulous and difficult to document (which probably tells the tale).

Most of the information dealing with his death presented by the web master on this site appears to be hogwash. Harding certainly died of a heart attack based on the information in the book.

One of the intriguing things about this book is that there are a lot of parallels to Clinton. There was a mysterious suicide, both were called the first black President, had tremendous appeal among backs for no real reasons. Both had strong wives, Both had scandals in their back ground (hardings was the sale of his newspaper when he became President for an inflated price) and in his Presidency. Both had Interior Secretary's accused of selling interior Dept concessions. Clinton's byzantine Arkansas gang corresponds nicely to Harding's Ohio gang. Both were Presidents during time of economic boom, which helped make them popular. For those who think Clinton was a good President because the economy expanded during his administration, can be corrected by pointing out that if this were the hall mark of a good President. Then he was the best President since Harding and Coolidge. There were a lot of other parallels and might very easily show what Clinton's legacy will be like.

[Question_Assumptions]

And this is why I shudder every time some educator says that they want children to research their papers on the Internet. The frightening parts are the sites that sound very reasonable and academic until you hit the point where it becomes clear, if you know anything about the subject matter, that you are reading either racist propaganda (white or black) or the rantings of a nut. But I worry that people who don't konw anything about the subject will believe it.

[msdrby]

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[RightWhale]

As to Teapot Dome, I was nowhere near there. Not that day.

[-=Wing_0_Walker=-]

You mean they weren't black? Lincoln wasn't gay? The judiciary will rule the other way, particularly in the 9th Circus Court of Appeals.

[SunkenCiv]

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