You're not the only one with that opinion.
Posted on 08/22/2008 9:50:20 AM PDT by edcoil
The Five Black Presidents of The United States Of America.
Joel A. Rogers and Dr. Auset Bakhufu have both written books documenting that at least five former presidents of the United States had Black people among their ancestors.
The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.
Yes, but Obama will be the first one who was actually born in Africa....
Doesn’t he say Hawaii?
He won’t be the first idiot either
With all due respect, don’t you mean the first “Black Panther” president? :)
I’m surprised they say it since Clinton was our first black president!/sarc
Why I say that is because ALL the neighbors in Southern Indiana did come from Central New York. They spoke one of 35 different Dutch dialects found in America at the time, and a melange of Scandinavian local dialects.
Abe's mother probably wasn't considered a white woman, but she wasn't considered a black woman either ~ her "minority" status would drive from her Scandinavian forebears from the far North who, at that time, simply weren't considered "white people".
That is what he says, but Obama seems unwilling to provide authenic proof of such claim. An unstamped, unsigned Certfication of Live Birth canned in by some leftwing site doesn't prove anything.
This writer (and I'll bet you his doctorate isn't in history) treats everything from scurrilous campaign trash to wild speculation as gospel.
With that said, there's a pretty good chance that one of Harding's great-grandparents was black.
The Four Mysteries of Warren Harding. A good article from American Heritage by Francis Russell. The good doctor misquotes from this very article, apparently (it was not "Republican officials"):
Whatever Harding’s frustrations and anger at these mocking accusations, he always followed the manly course of disregarding the rumors about his heredity. He himself did not know whether they were true or not. “How do I know, Jim?” he once told his old friend James Faulkner of the Cincinnati Enquirer. “One of my ancestors may have jumped the fence.” Nor, in a day when such matters have come to be of less concern, is there anything more to add to that honest comment.
You're not the only one with that opinion.
Calvin Coolidge may well have been the whitest person who ever lived.
hopefully he’s not the next either.
Clinton hasn’t a clue on who his Daddy was. He could be of mixed race parentage. According to the people in this area that knew Clinton’s Mother, her legs had more airtime than a professional airline pilot.
What about our Black Irish Presidents?
His race notwithstanding, my favorite president.
While visiting the Harding house in Marion last year, I saw the pictures of his grandparents hanging in the hallway on the second floor. Looking at the one picture, one could only conclude that his paternal grandfather was black.
Hasn’t genetic research shown we’re all “black” as in coming from Africa?
Second question: Why do we care? Anybody who is for or against Obama because he’s “black” is a racist, pure and simple.
Harding was not of particularly good family - his dad was an itinerant patent medicine salesman who anointed himself a doctor after a stint as a vet . . . . it was his social climbing, predatory wife who pushed him into the presidency. If W.G. had had his way, he would have spent his life as a newspaper editor in Blooming Grove, playing poker with the boys and living it up.
Ike Hoover, who as head usher in the White House for almost 40 years saw a lot of life, said that Taft was a ladies' man, but Harding was "a sporting ladies' man."
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