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."
“it was his social climbing, predatory wife who pushed him into the presidency.”
that sounds oddly familiar somehow...
And frankly, when it comes to scary-looking women, she makes Hillary (or Michelle) look like an amateur -
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Married 4 times and outlived 3 out of 4 of them.
My goodness, I just took a good look at her hands. She had some incredibly loooong fingers.
Marfan’s Syndrome?
Are they at the "Lovenstein Institute"?
Andrew Jackson's parents were born in Ireland (Scots-Irish). That makes it very unlikely that he had African-American ancestry.
The story about Harding has been around for a long time. It was spread by a professor who hated him. We still don't know if it has any credibility at all, but it may be one reason for Harding's insecurity. It's been said that many early settlers of the Middle West may have been part-Black and blended into the White population over the years, but who can say whether they included Harding's own ancestors?
The story about Coolidge is based on the lack of knowledge of his maternal grandfather's ancestry and the man's last name: Moor. That's not much. But for what it's worth, here's Coolidge's mother, Victoria Josephine Moor Coolidge:
Again, who can really say?
His grandparents were hung in the hallway? That's cruel.
;-)
Where I grew up in western PA, there were a number of small coal towns dotting the map where groups of eastern europeans were herded directly from Ellis Island and sent into the mines. As late as the 1980's, you could find second or even third generation folks in these towns speaking with eastern european accents.
The Melungeons are particularly fascinating because the lack of concensus on where even the name comes from opens up a whole lot of possibilities that if proven, could force a significant rewrite of some of our history.
"Marfan’s Syndrome?"
Yes, that was my thought as well."
Coolidge himself claimed to have American Indian ancestors.
A 320 pound ladies' man.
I think Harding himself had the last word. He didn't know himself - how could we know?
I think what was meant is that he appreciated the ladies, but didn't let things go too far. That's always been a socially acceptable attitude, at least until recently!
LOL!
Pictures of .......,
Amos Kling would have liked to have strung up those Hardings....along with Warren.
Who the hell cares about the racial background of Lincoln, et al? Does it matter?
And we call the Dems race-obsessed...
It’s comments like this that make Dems think us Repubs are pigs and racists. Let’s drag everything into the gutter!
Harding had quite a few achievements in his limited tenure as POTUS.
Dean makes the case that Harding was a reformist Conservative who was instrumental in creating the Bureau of the Budget which saved over a billion dollars in government outlays. Dean says that Harding's budget hawk approach set the stage for the dramatic prosperity that came to be known as the roaring twenties.
If the reputation is factual, show the proof. And even if it is true, so what? How does it further the Republican cause?
Dean must be trying to retrieve Bill Clinton's reputation.
Harding was handed a torpid economy that was going through a post WWI inflationary bout. In essence, the economy after 8 years of pummelling from the Wilson progressives, was in horrible shape, similar too the economy that Carter
handed Ronald Reagan in March 1981.
Harding trimmed spending, and reduced taxes across the board. Not even the great one, Ronald Reagan, could pull that one off. The reduced rates and throttled federal spending set the stage for what happened to the economy in the mid-twenties.
If Cox and Roosevelt had won in the election of 1920, and perpetuated the high marginal rates and capital gains rate I don’t believe the economy would have rebounded the way it eventually did in that decade.
Roosevelt was to get his chance in the spring of 1933, and he raised marginal rates and capital gains rates up to a high of 90% and we know what happened....the economy tanked and didn’t recover until WWII. Roosevelt and his progressive minions are responsible for the anemic economic recovery during the thirties.....industrial production didn’t rebound until the forties.
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