Apparently America has already elected a black president in the past...

[joeybee12]

...interesting article, even if it doesn't prove true. It reminds me of watching Ken Burns' documentary on Thomas Jefferson, when it was just a rumor that Tommy had offsrping with his slave Sally. All the historians he interviewed said it was just a rumor, that Jefferson had too much character for it to be true. Anyway, turns out that was true, and all those respected historians were wrong.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Will Americans vote for a black president? If the notorious historian William Estabrook Chancellor was right, we already did. In the early 1920s, Chancellor helped assemble a controversial biographical portrait accusing President Warren Harding of covering up his family’s “colored” past. According to the family tree Chancellor created, Harding was actually the great-grandson of a black woman. Under the one-drop rule of American race relations, Chancellor claimed, the country had inadvertently elected its “first Negro president.”

In today’s presidential landscape, many Americans view the prospect of a black man in the Oval Office as a sign of progress — evidence of a “postracial” national consciousness. In the white-supremacist heyday of the 1920s (the Ku Klux Klan had a major revival during the Harding years), the taint of “Negro blood” was political death. The Harding forces hit back hard against Chancellor, driving him out of his job and destroying all but a handful of published copies of his book.

In the decades since, many biographers have dismissed the rumors of Harding’s mixed-race family as little more than a political scandal and Chancellor himself as a Democratic mudslinger and racist ideologue. But as with the long-denied and now all-but-proved allegations of Thomas Jefferson’s affair with his slave Sally Hemings, there is reason to question the denials. From the perspective of 2008, when interracial sex is seen as a historical fact of life instead of an abomination, the circumstantial case for Harding’s mixed-race ancestry is intriguing though not definitive.

[lonestarnot]

1. Is Buchanan in your family tree?

[Cooley Hurd]

2. The only thing that was proven about Sally Hemming's descendants...

...was that they were also descendants of a Jefferson, not Thomas specifically.

[Karenina]

7. Does that make you feel better?

[Cooley Hurd]

8. No, it's a statement of fact...

The truth makes me feel better. Take your race-baiting elsewhere.:thumbsdown:

Oh, and the scar on my leg from scuffling with supporters of white-supremacist Matt Hale tells you to stuff it too.:grr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_DNA_data

[wuushew]

3. All Presidents have been part black

owing to the rise and spread of modern humans out of Africa.

[coriolis]

4. There's no such thing as a "pure breed" human any more than there is a dog

or other animal. Only clones can fulfill that criterion!

[flashl]

5. More publishings ...

Noted historian J.A. Rogers published a book in 1965 titled “The 5 Black US Presidents”. If it remains the law of the land that one-drop of Black blood makes you Black then we could have had 5 or 6 Black Presidents.

Auset Bakhufu wrote Six Black Presidents: Black Blood, White Masks. In her book, she discusses the "passing for white" syndrome of six of the United States' most influential presidents.

[MzShellG]

6. Warren Harding was the 1st black president.

Americans didn't know it when he was elected and has since tried to sweep it under the rug, but his family tree is a fact, like it or not.

[L. Coyote]

9. Axiomatic to Anthropology: Race is a perception, a mental category, not an actuality.

Simply put, there are no races, just human beings.
Perceived races do not even correspond with genetic branching.
Climate and latitude--natural adaptations--are determinants of "race" traits.