NAME THE FIRST (5) FIVE PRESIDENTS and/or vice......?

Question

that WERE of BLACK decent.
If you don't know, that's alright. Just, study American History and Heritage. Even though Bill Clinton is said to be the first Black President (in jest), it is not proven on paper as of yet. Who knows in joking, there might be some truth, but that would make him the 5or 6th. Thank you ahead of time for your answers. Why is this not taught in Public Schools?

Answer 1

Well, there's this:

"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. If one considers the fact that European men far outnumbered European women during the founding of this country, and that the rape and impregnation of an African female slave was not considered a crime, it is even more surprising that these two authors could not document Black ancestors among an ever larger number of former presidents. The president’s names include Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, and Calvin Coolidge.

The best case for Black ancestry is against Warren G. Harding, our 29th president from 1921 until 1923. Harding himself never denied his ancestry. When Republican leaders called on Harding to deny the "*****" history, he said, "How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence." William Chancellor, a White professor of economics and politics at Wooster College in Ohio, wrote a book on the Harding family genealogy and identified Black ancestors among both parents of President Harding. Justice Department agents allegedly bought and destroyed all copies of this book. Chancellor also said that Harding's only academic credentials included education at Iberia College, which was founded in order to educate fugitive slaves.

Andrew Jackson was our 7th president from 1829 to 1837. The Virginia Magazine of History Volume 29 says that Jackson was the son of a White woman from Ireland who had intermarried with a *****. The magazine also said that his eldest brother had been sold as a slave in Carolina. Joel Rogers says that Andrew Jackson Sr. died long before President Andrew Jackson Jr. was born. He says the president's mother then went to live on the Crawford farm where there were ***** slaves and that one of these men was Andrew Jr's father. Another account of the "brother sold into slavery” story can be found in David Coyle's book entitled "Ordeal of the Presidency" (1960).

Thomas Jefferson was our 3rd president from 1801 to 1809. The chief attack on Jefferson was in a book written by Thomas Hazard in 1867 called "The Johnny Cake Papers." Hazard interviewed Paris Gardiner, who said he was present during the 1796 presidential campaign, when one speaker states that Thomas Jefferson was “a mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father.” In his book entitled "The Slave Children of Thomas Jefferson," Samuel Sloan wrote that Jefferson destroyed all of the papers, portraits, and personal effects of his mother, Jane Randolph Jefferson, when she died on March 31, 1776. He even wrote letters to every person who had ever received a letter from his mother, asking them to return that letter. Sloan says, "There is something strange and even psychopathic about the lengths to which Thomas Jefferson went to destroy all remembrances of his mother, while saving over 18,000 copies of his own letters and other documents for posterity." One must ask, "What is it he was trying to hide?"

Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president from 1861 to 1865. J. A. Rogers quotes Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, as saying that Abraham Lincoln was the illegitimate son of an African man. William Herndon, Lincoln's law partner, said that Lincoln had very dark skin and coarse hair and that his mother was from an Ethiopian tribe. In Herndon's book entitled "The Hidden Lincoln" he says that Thomas Lincoln could not have been Abraham Lincoln's father because he was sterile from childhood mumps and was later castrated. Lincoln's presidential opponents made cartoon drawings depicting him as a ***** and nicknamed him “Abraham Africanus the First."

Calvin Coolidge was our 30th president, and he succeeded Warren Harding. He proudly admitted that his mother was dark because of mixed Indian ancestry. However, Dr. Bakhufu says that by 1800 the New England Indian was hardly any longer pure Indian, because they had mixed so often with Blacks. Calvin Coolidge's mother's maiden name was "Moor." In Europe the name "Moor" was given to all Black people just as the name ***** was used in America.

All of the presidents mentioned were able to pass for White and never acknowledged their Black ancestry. Millions of other children who were descendants of former slaves have also been able to pass for White. American society has had so much interracial mixing that books such as “The Bell Curve”, discussing IQ evaluations based solely on race, are totally unrealistic.

I’m Dr. Leroy Vaughn and that’s my view."

and this:

"Five ***** Presidents (Paperback)
by J. A. Rogers (Author)
(5 customer reviews)

Presidents Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge all have something in common, according to a few past and present historians they all had African-American ancestors.



see 2nd link, please

I wouldn't be at all surprised - after all, we're all a mixture of Lord knows how many different "races"'
and, according to most anthropologists, if we go back far enough, we're all related to the first "humans", who came out of Africa.

Answer 2

The "Black American President list normally lists:
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln,Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. Eisenhower is another one mentioned.

While it's easy to make such claims, proof is difficult to determine. Remember "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you make such a claim then you must provide the evidence. It isn't enough to say "Well go ahead and prove otherwise." Make the claim, supply the proof and then defend the proof.

Consider Lincoln:
"The challenge to Lincoln’s paternity is a very old challenge beginning as early as his nomination for the presidency in 1860. In fact, there are currently a total of 16 individuals who various authors have claimed hold such a distinction, if distinction is the right word. Among these sixteen are such notables as John C. Calhoun, Henry Clay, and Patrick Henry. More directly to the question of Abraham Enlow, there are actually four men with the name of Enlow, or a variation thereof, who are alleged to have fathered Lincoln"
http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/father.htm

Then there's Lincoln's mother:
" Who was the Nancy Hanks who married Thomas Lincoln and became the mother of our 16th President Abraham Lincoln?
Generation after generation of Hanks researchers, historians, writers, etc. have tried to answer that question."
http://hanksforthememories.homestead.com/NHL.html

It's been claimed that Lincoln's father was Black so he's Black. Also it's been claimed that his mother was Black so he's Black. We did find one source that claimed both his parents were Black. Three different claims and all three claims can't be true.

Anyone wanting to claim Lincoln was Black will need to disprove all the other claims (16 fathers? who really was his mother) and establish some proof about Lincoln's ancestry.

A couple of the other Presidents make the list as they have "mixed Indian ancestry" The argument is that Native Americans were no longer "pure" and so were all a mix of Indian and Black. That's a claim, not proof.

Thomas Jefferson was accused "during the 1796 presidential campaign, when one speaker states that Thomas Jefferson was “a mean-spirited son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father.” Supposedly that makes him Black.
http://www.geocities.com/cureworks1/5blkpres.htm
So, how valid are political attacks?

Warren Harding was asked to "prove" he wasn't Black. He replied"How should I know whether or not one of my ancestors might have jumped the fence."
http://www.geocities.com/cureworks1/5blkpres.htm

Remember, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Like Harding, can anyone "prove" that?

The basis for these "Black President" claims is the "one drop rule" from Jim Crow days. That is, one drop of Black Blood was enough to be Black.
"Not only does the one-drop rule apply to no other group than American blacks, but apparently the rule is unique in that it is found only in the United States and not in any other nation in the world. In fact, definitions of who is black vary quite sharply from country to country, and for this reason people in other countries often express consternation about our definition"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/mixed/onedrop.html

While it's claimed, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim. Quoting political attacks, anecdotes and what others said, doesn't meet the standard of proof. Neither is the absence of proof.

Answer 3

I know Abraham Lincoln was melungeuon...partly black.

If that is true about Jackson well he did alot to hurt blacks and Indians including the Trail of Tears to the Cherokee which killed thousands during the forced migration .

Many people have passes through the years like Rapheal Trujillo in the DR...who killed thousands of Haitains...self hate makes you do alot of things.

I love this guy above some people have the right idea.