Obama Was Not The First Black President?

6 U.S. Presidents You Most Likely Didn’t Know Were Black, Ranked
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6. Abraham LincolnHonest Abe’s connection to Black folks goes further than his role in ending slavery. In the 2001 book Black People and Their Place in History, historian Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, alleges that Lincoln’s father was African American and his mother had Ethiopian ethnicity, both of which may have explained his “very dark skin and coarse hair.” The political streets were talking, too — his rivals campaigned using propaganda that depicted Lincoln as “Abraham Africanus the First,” an African man. Wonder if his Lambo was blue.

5. Warren HardingLike Lincoln, Warren Gamaliel Harding — yes, the original Warren G — was rumored to have Black ancestry on both sides of his family tree. He was once asked about the potentially damaging hearsay; rather than regulate, Harding is reported as saying “One of my ancestors may have jumped the fence.” DNA testing conducted in 2015 disproved the rumors, but due to Harding’s outspokenness on civil rights, we’re gonna go ahead and claim him, rampant corruption or not. The concept of race is made up, anyway.

4. Calvin CoolidgeKeep it 100: You had no idea that Calvin Coolidge was a member of the one-drop club. But the price is on the can, though. The 30th president was unabashed about the genealogy of his mother (whose maiden name happened to be Moor). He once explained that her dark complexion was due to her “mixed Indian ancestry.” Ethnicity aside, has any president had a Blacker, more swagged-out name than Calvin damn Coolidge?

3. Dwight EisenhowerVaughn’s Black People and Their Place in History also drops a dime on Eisenhower, claiming that regardless of how his first name sounds, his mother, Ida Elizabeth Stover-Eisenhower, was biracial. Snopes has labeled this rumor as unproven — sounds like someone’s trying to keep Dwight wight!

2. Andrew JacksonAccording to historian J.A. Rogers’ pamphlet The 5 Black Presidents, Jackson’s dad was allegedly Black and his oldest brother was reportedly sold into slavery. Wonder if this changes Trump’s hero worship. (Also, for the record: It’s still fuck Andrew Jackson forever.)

1. Thomas JeffersonOne of America’s founding fathers, Jefferson was a walking paradox: During his tenure as the third U.S. president, he was a vocal opponent of slavery, calling it a “moral depravity” and a “hideous blot,” and outlawing international slave trade. Jefferson also literally owned a slave plantation, enslaving more than 600 Black people in his lifetime, and freeing fewer than 10 along the way. His life is complicated even more by the bombshell published in the aforementioned The 5 Black Presidents, which claims dude’s mother was “a half-breed Indian Squaw” and his father was a “Virginia mulatto.” And all that’s before we even get to the whole Sally Hemings situation. Someone get Dave Chappelle on the phone; let’s get this posthumous racial draft poppin’. (Level Editors-Medium)




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