5 OTHER black Presidents

[Trigg]

I came across this and wondered what others think about the subject.

As far as I can see these claims are rumor and innuendo with no positive proof.


magazines and newspaper articles found on the Web name five other U.S. presidents who may have had black ancestry, but never publicly acknowledged it: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D. Eisenhower

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08036/854713-51.stm




The issue of race was injected into the 1920 presidential campaign as part of an effort to sink the campaign of Harding, the Republican nominee

http://www.ferris.edu/JIMCROW/question/nov08/

[hjmick]

I'll tell ya Trigg, there is no doubt in my mind that there have several presidents that have had black ancestry. No doubt at all.

[Mr. P]

I came across this and wondered what others think about the subject.

As far as I can see these claims are rumor and innuendo with no positive proof.



I do remember reading something on Lincoln regarding this subject...

What I think about the subject itself...Interesting, but It doesn't matter.

[PostmodernProphet]

Clinton's gonna be pissed to find out he isn't the first.....

[Kathianne]

We all have black ancestry since man originated in Africa.

[Trigg]

I realize there was a little mixing between black and white, but enough so that a President back in the late 1800 or early 1900 could pass. Unlikely IMO.

Even more unlikely that no one would know about it.

Anyway IF these men did have some non-white in their ancestry if they didn't self identify as mixed than history shouldn't either.

Personnally I have Indian in my ancestry 1/32, but I don't identify myself as Indian. Neither does my mother who's 1/16th.